Sam Alito’s Textualism Has Entered the Realm of the Absurd
admin Justice Alito’s opinion is a classic exercise in textualism.
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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.
Monsanto Wins at the Supreme Court Using Big Tobacco’s Playbook
In the late 1990s, John Durnell began using the weedkiller Roundup to help tend to the community spaces in his…
The Supreme Court’s New Expansion of the Second Amendment Is Genuinely Deranged
The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez on Thursday confirms our worst fears about the supermajority’s Second Amendment…
The Conservative Majority Blew Apart One of the Biggest Myths About This Supreme Court
We are left with a court that is not only unaccountable, but utterly unmoored from internal restraints on its own…
Neil Gorsuch Just Took a Wrecking Ball to a Major Religious Liberty Law
He printed out a physical copy of a binding appeals court decision from 2017 that prohibited prisons from compelling Rastafarian…
Clarence Thomas Just Gave Border Agents a Terrifying New Power
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court blessed a Kafkaesque nightmare by a 6–3 vote along the usual partisan lines.
The Supreme Court Quietly Embraced Clarence Thomas’ Theory of Race. It’s Already a Disaster.
The conservative supermajority’s move to constitutionalize “colorblindness” has sweeping implications in many other areas of the law.