|
Kimberly Atkins StohrBoston Globe |
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
Public sentiment has dipped amid justices’ increased use of the shadow docket, where cases do not get full briefing or argument.
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
The SAVE America Act would burden if not disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans leading up to the midterms. And Trump admitted that it’s all...
A single, unsigned paragraph turned the Voting Rights Act into a dead letter.
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
A Supreme Court’s emergency order doesn’t just endanger vulnerable kids. It also shows conservative justices’ willingness to break rules when it...
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
How President Trump felt about the Supreme Court justices who curbed his power was no secret by the time he snubbed them at the State of the Union.
A dissent showed that at least half of the court’s GOP appointees are willing to go to great lengths to back Trump, even when it requires them to...
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
The court’s new "automated recusal checks” filing rule is simply playacting at transparency.
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
That doesn’t mean the court isn’t putting its thumb on the scale of the midterm elections.
When it comes to reclassifying up to 50,000 federal workers as at-will employees, Trump is setting himself up for a supreme clash.
Trying to silence those who speak to the press is a pet project of Trump's. But in this case, the muzzler-in-chief is Chief Justice John Roberts.
A Supreme Court case challenging mail-in voting could have wide-ranging impact, including in Massachusetts.
A recent Supreme Court ruling all but closes the door to any form of accountability.
In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE’s assault on American democracy, we have to see it and treat it as what it is.
"What goes around comes around," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said.
The court demands historical precedent for state gun laws — then decides what history can be ignored.
The court should rule that Trump’s tariff gambit exceeds his authority. But the longer we wait for a ruling, the less likely that seems.
By attacking the Fed chair, Trump is kneecapping himself right before the Supreme Court takes up a crucial case on his presidential power.
The stakes in the cases are high and transcend conservative talking points.
If past is prologue, John Roberts’s year-end report on the federal courts will ignore that the greatest threat is coming from inside the Supreme...
Its bid to scrub states’ voter data not only probably violates federal law and the Constitution, it also lays the groundwork to interfere in the...
New rulings could add fuel to the debate over gun rights, gun control, and mass violence in America.
The gun industrial complex, with powerful lobbyists and backers like the National Rifle Association, have stayed ahead of the game of those seeking...
New presidents cannot come into office and fire existing officials just to install preferred leaders in their place. But that is exactly what Trump...
Despite Trump’s vile views on immigrants, even some conservatives don’t think his executive order holds constitutional water.
Companies like Costco and Bumble Bee Foods aren't waiting on the Supreme Court's tariff ruling to sue for refunds.
It’s not just a political loss for Trump. It’s a win for democracy, so long as the Supreme Court upholds it.
The First Amendment is meant to protect even minority religions. The justices don’t seem to get that.
“It is vital that the American people understand that democracy is very valuable,” former US District Court Judge Mark Wolf said.
Lawmakers are urging the Supreme Court to declare Trump’s tariffs an illegal overreach of his authority. Will the justices agree?
In rare move, the Trump administration defends a federal gun regulation.
Even if the court’s majority doesn’t directly kill it, it’ll blow a hole in it as wide as Louisiana.
The slow death of stare decisis is turning the justices into robed lawmakers.
The Supreme Court opens its term with a challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, which is a free exercise case in disguise.
And that should worry us all.
Can justices be removed? What will it take to "fix" the Supreme Court? How far will the court go for President Trump?
The order itself has virtually no legal effect, but it could become a dangerously effective tool for Trump’s campaign of vengeance against his...
Here's a look at more cases that are on the Supreme Court’s docket next term, and what could be added in the weeks and months ahead.
So why are so few Black women getting it?
There’s no way to sugar coat this: The foreseeable future of our Republic will depend on what the Supreme Court’s majority does in the next term.
The Supreme Court can’t stay on the sidelines much longer.
The rulings represent a growing network federal judges who have issued a clear, unifying message: The law must be respected, even by those in the...
For months, Trump has fumed about the Federal Reserve. It’s no surprise he’s chosen to target Cook.