Supreme Court

10 SCOTUS facts to tide us over until it wrecks the country

By Eric Segall / April 25, 2024 /

A lot of pain is coming as we head towards that great artificial deadline the justices created for themselves known as “June,” writes Eric Segall.

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There’s a constitutional apocalypse on the horizon

By Eric Segall / March 15, 2024 /

Don’t expect We the People to take it lying it down, writes Eric Segall.

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The Supreme Court just turned us all into vigilante voters

By John Stoehr / March 6, 2024 /

The potential for democracy obliterating the rule of law.

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Supreme Court’s GOP justices open the door to dictatorship

By Claire Bond Potter / March 5, 2024 /

They would allow Trump to run for president until he dies, no matter how many insurrections he incites, writes Claire Bond Potter.

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Giving makebelieve the force of law is what SCOTUS does best

By John Stoehr / July 10, 2023 /

This is what dishonesty looks like.

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Facing embarrassingly weak test case, has SCOTUS’ rightwing supermajority lost its nerve?

By Lindsay Beyerstein / April 23, 2023 /

The current bid to yank mifepristone off the market is legal hackery whose sponsors deserve points only for shrewd venue-shopping.

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How anti-abortionists learned to stop worrying and love punishing women for having sex

By John Stoehr / February 3, 2023 /

Once Roe fell, the truth was revealed.

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The only counterweight to the Six is enduring control of Congress by the Democrats

By John Stoehr / December 15, 2022 /

Court-packing is nice but democratic politics is better.

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There is no America. There are Americas, though

By John Stoehr / December 5, 2022 /

We should drop the idea of the United States being one country.

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SCOTUS is dirty. Let’s clean it up

By Mia Brett / November 28, 2022 /

Rightwing justices aren’t going to police themselves.

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