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Matt FordThe Atlantic |
The Supreme Court took the unusual step on Thursday of dismissing a case that it had already heard, handing a rare win to a death-row prisoner and...
The Trump administration set the stage for the largest heist in American history this week by creating an illegal fund of taxpayer dollars to...
Next month marks the four-year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the landmark decision where the Supreme Court overturned...
President Donald Trump suggested earlier this week that Venezuela should be annexed by the United States. He reportedly told Fox News correspondent...
About a decade ago, I moved into an apartment in Washington, D.C., that seemed like a bargain. The unit was in good shape and in a nice location. The...
Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have a problem on their hands. Americans have an increasingly low opinion of the Supreme Court. Thanks...
Throughout the American South is an archipelago of majority-Black congressional districts that provide some measure of Black representation in...
President Donald Trump is obsessed these days with reshaping Washington, D.C., in his own image. He demolished the White House’s East Wing and plans...
The Supreme Court’s decision this week to destroy what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 compels us to consider structural reforms to the...
The Supreme Court achieved one of the principal goals of the conservative legal movement by destroying the last remaining pillar of Voting Rights Act...
Every few months, the Trump administration says that it will make a greater effort to denaturalize American citizens. Last week, The New York Times...
The United States did not always have a Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant founded it in 1870 to help suppress the Ku Klux Klan in the...
The New York Times on Saturday published a series of Supreme Court internal memos that amount, in hindsight, to a major milestone in the decline of...
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the nation’s independence. Justice Clarence Thomas, the senior-most member of the Supreme Court, sought to...
The last two weeks have been disastrous for the Trump administration. In Europe, Vice President JD Vance made the extraordinary move of campaigning...
Will there be a Supreme Court vacancy in 2026? The November midterms are inching closer—and with them, the slim but growing prospect of a Democratic...
President Donald Trump spent the Easter weekend issuing a belligerent stream of threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure. He set a deadline...
The Supreme Court appears likely to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship. At Wednesday’s oral...
The Supreme Court appears ready to reject Donald Trump’s war on birthright citizenship. During oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara on Wednesday, most...
America’s first Gilded Age is often remembered as a time of industrial growth and excessive corporate power, when economic power and basic resources...
Thirteen years ago, Justice Antonin Scalia gave an unusually candid interview with New York magazine’s Jennifer Senior. (Candid by the standards of...
If you want to see the dire state of American anti-corruption efforts, look no further than the Supreme Court’s docket. No fewer than three state...
Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term trying to signal his strength, his impunity, and his permanence in American public life. When...
This year’s World Baseball Classic was, by most metrics, a smashing success for the sport. Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in...
It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major Fourth Amendment case. That will change next month when the justices hear oral arguments...
Six years ago, the Supreme Court held that nearly half of the state of Oklahoma was still legally considered Indian country. State officials have gone...
President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran is an illegal and unconstitutional war. Congress did not authorize military action against...
In the old days, it used to require actual work to show that the Supreme Court justices were driven by their personal beliefs instead of...
Let us speak plainly about Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court’s upcoming case on birthright citizenship. Many of the high court’s cases are about...
Justice Clarence Thomas’s preferred theory of constitutional interpretation is often said to be originalist, but it may be more accurately described...
The Supreme Court has enabled many of the Trump administration’s worst abuses over the past 14 months, particularly when it comes to his mass...
The Supreme Court delivered a crushing blow to President Donald Trump’s policy agenda on Friday, ruling that a Cold War-era law for economic...