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The Deeper Meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson vs. Clarence Thomas on Birthright Citizenship

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court. Keep up with all of our Supreme Court coverage and...

02.07.2026 10

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

Elena Kagan Just Bolstered the Fourth Amendment in a Badly Needed Way

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29.06.2026 10

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

The One Guns Case Where the Supreme Court Actually Got Its Awkward New Standard Right

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26.06.2026 10

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

Sam Alito’s Textualism Has Entered the Realm of the Absurd

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26.06.2026 10

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Another Racially Charged Verdict Has Split Americans. Here’s the Real Scandal.

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17.06.2026 10

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

The Supreme Court Weighs How Much Google Surveillance Can Be Used Against You in Court

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20.05.2026 20

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The Supreme Court Sapping Black Voting Power Was Not an Accident

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08.05.2026 20

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The Terrible, Hidden Stakes of One of the Thorniest Supreme Court Cases of This Term

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10.04.2026 30

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The Supreme Court’s Big Voting Case Embraces an Approach It Rejected Just Three Years Ago

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31.03.2026 30

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Was One of the Few Justices to Recognize the Trans Sports Cases Are About Real People

15.01.2026 70

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Sonia Sotomayor Just Vindicated the Rights of the Incarcerated to Seek Appeals

10.01.2026 30

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

The Supreme Court Was Ripe for Another Ideological Food Fight. Then Something Else Happened.

09.01.2026 60

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The Dashcam Video of His Violent Arrest Has Gone Viral. Why He Decided to Record It.

28.07.2025 30

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The Supreme Court Might Be About to Turbocharge ICE Even More Than Trump’s Big Bill

03.07.2025 30

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The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Gets History Achingly Wrong

27.06.2025 40

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This Is Samuel Alito’s Ugliest Dissent in Some Time

27.06.2025 40

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A Criminal Law Case So Messed Up It Brought Clarence Thomas and KBJ on the Same Side

17.06.2025 30

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

Why the Supreme Court Decision Protecting a “Majority” Plaintiff Was Really a Win for Civil Rights

06.06.2025 30

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Brett Kavanaugh Just Gave a Gratuitous Win to Cops Who Kill

16.05.2025 30

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The Acquittal of Tyre Nichols’ Killers and the Hollow Promise of 2020

09.05.2025 30

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Robyn Nicole Sanders