The high court’s next justice won’t be on the winning side of many major cases. But even in defeat, she might sow the seeds for future victories.

Long before the 6–3 court hands down rulings, the cases it chooses to hear have a tidal effect on the nation’s ideological drift.

Conservatives are suddenly hopping mad that their opponents decided to play the game by the GOP’s rules.

Judge Michelle Childs’s unique background would lend a diversity of experience to the high court. It has also left her vulnerable to critics.

Does the all-but-certain promise of a “yes” vote from Graham—along with Jim Clyburn’s support—make Michelle Childs the odds-on favorite?

Despite what Republican critics would have you believe, the president’s candidates to replace Breyer are eminently qualified.

They just can’t help themselves.

The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death penalty. His courage keeps alive the possibility that some future court might yet win.

How will the law work in a world where the high court is making up the rules as it goes along?

The GOP can slow down the confirmation process for Stephen Breyer’s replacement, but the Democrats almost certainly have the votes to confirm her.

And it should probably be Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is far more qualified than Clarence Thomas was when he was nominated. It’s time to fight.

The Supreme Court justice is retiring in time for the Democrats to replace him with a much younger judge: a Black woman, if Biden keeps his campaign promise.

Conservative legal activists looking to roll back the legal remedies for historical racial discrimination couldn’t ask for a more accommodating high court.

The Supreme Court justice refuses to recuse himself from cases in which his right-wing activist wife, Ginni, has a clear interest. The Democrats should punish him for it.

Neil Gorsuch’s recent invocation of the “major questions doctrine” has ominous implications for anyone not keen on watching the government drown in dysfunction.

The court did not foreclose robust new workplace vaccination standards, nor bless the radical right’s blueprint for annihilating the “administrative state.”

The high court struck down OSHA’s testing mandate but left a vaccine requirement for health care workers in place.

The chief justice’s veiled end-of-year remarks seem to indicate that if the high court cannot reform itself, reform will be forced upon it.

The Supreme Court on Friday will consider two Biden administration rules to protect workers from the virus. Will the conservative justices buy a disingenuous reading of the word “necessary”?

The country we’ll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days’ time.