Elena Kagan Just Bolstered the Fourth Amendment in a Badly Needed Way
admin Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear…
Jurisprudence
The Supreme Court Just Handed Trump the Keys to the Entire Kingdom
On Monday, the Supreme Court swung a wrecking ball into our federal government’s structure in Trump v. Slaughter.
The Supreme Court Takes One More Big Step Toward Autocracy
On Monday, the Supreme Court banished any doubt that it has claimed absolute authority to reshape the federal government as…
The Supreme Court Rejected a Bonkers Idea About Voting by a 5–4 Margin. Next Time We Won’t Be So Lucky.
Justice Barrett relied upon the common understanding of the meaning of the word “election.”
It’s Been Two Years Since the Supreme Court Made Homelessness a Crime. The Result Speaks for Itself.
Grants Pass has not solved homelessness, and things have gone from bad to worse.
Sam Alito’s Textualism Has Entered the Realm of the Absurd
Justice Alito’s opinion is a classic exercise in textualism.
The One Guns Case in Which the Supreme Court Actually Got Its Awkward New Standard Right
Reasonable people can disagree about whether mixing guns and drugs is wise.
The Supreme Court’s Latest Immigration Decisions Will Be Deadly
Both opinions garnered scathing dissents by the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices, and for good reason.
Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Won Big at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court dealt a painful blow to immigrants on Thursday in a pair of 6–3 decisions.
Sam Alito Wrote One of the Cruelest Opinions of in Recent Memory
On Thursday, the Supreme Court blessed the Trump administration’s efforts to kick hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians out…