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Supreme Court

The latest developments on the United States Supreme Court.

Billionaires had a surprisingly bad day in the Supreme Court

Even this very conservative Court appears reluctant to blow up the federal government’s power to tax rich people.

By Ian Millhiser

Two new Supreme Court cases ask if there is a right to medically necessary abortion

A federal law requires most hospitals to perform emergency abortions. The question is whether a Republican Supreme Court will enforce it.

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court seeks a middle path between following the law and blowing up the government

By Ian Millhiser November 29

Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser November 28

The new Trump judge revolt against the Voting Rights Act, explained

By Ian Millhiser November 28

The Supreme Court case seeking to shut down wealth taxes before they even exist

By Ian Millhiser November 27

A Supreme Court case about stocks could help make Trump’s authoritarian dreams reality

By Ian Millhiser November 21

The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a joke

By Ian Millhiser November 14

Democrats get surprisingly good news from America’s Trumpiest court

By Ian Millhiser November 13

The Supreme Court appears poised to rein in its worst decision on guns

By Ian Millhiser November 7

A foolish state official may have just handed the NRA a big Supreme Court victory

By Ian Millhiser November 6

Biden’s new plan for student loan relief, explained

By Kevin Carey November 4

The Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively legalize automatic weapons

By Ian Millhiser November 3

The Supreme Court seems stumped by two cases about free speech online

By Ian Millhiser October 31

The Supreme Court must decide if it wants to own Twitter

By Ian Millhiser October 27

The Supreme Court confronts its own failure in an appalling case about guns

By Ian Millhiser October 24

The Supreme Court considers whether a very stupid gun law is also unconstitutional

By Ian Millhiser October 19

The Supreme Court’s very brief, very revealing new decision about guns, explained

By Ian Millhiser October 17

The Supreme Court appears determined to make it easy to draw gerrymanders

By Ian Millhiser October 11

Cat Person, Fair Play, and Brett Kavanaugh

By Alissa Wilkinson October 6

The high stakes in a new Supreme Court showdown over gerrymandering

By Ian Millhiser October 5

The Supreme Court argues about how to make a terrible civil rights case go away

By Ian Millhiser October 4

The Supreme Court’s uncharacteristic moment of sanity

By Ian Millhiser October 3

18 Updates

Tracking the biggest cases the Supreme Court will hear in 2023-2024 term

By Ian Millhiser October 2

Two right-wing judges seem to be trying to rig a US House race

By Ian Millhiser October 2

The Supreme Court’s new term will be dominated by dangerous and incoherent lawsuits

By Ian Millhiser October 2

The Supreme Court showdown over social media “censorship,” explained

By Ian Millhiser September 29

The Supreme Court just told Alabama to shut up and listen

By Ian Millhiser September 26

A Supreme Court case about hotel websites could blow up much of US civil rights law

By Ian Millhiser September 25

A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression

By Ian Millhiser September 23

The Supreme Court will decide if Alabama can openly defy its decisions

By Ian Millhiser September 20

Planned Parenthood’s risky plan to bring abortions back to Wisconsin

By Ian Millhiser September 14

The unconstitutional plan to stop women from traveling out of state for an abortion, explained

By Ian Millhiser September 12

The lawsuits seeking to keep drag queens legal, explained

By Ian Millhiser September 7

The Republican Party’s plan to rule the state of Wisconsin forever, explained

By Ian Millhiser September 7

America’s Trumpiest court just put itself in charge of nuclear safety

By Ian Millhiser August 29

The edgelord of the federal judiciary

By Ian Millhiser August 26

The case for optimism about the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser August 20

The fight over whether courts can ban mifepristone is headed back to the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser August 16

Will anyone trust these hyper-politicized courts to try Donald Trump?

By Ian Millhiser August 15

The Supreme Court is taking a wrecking ball to the wall between church and state

By Ian Millhiser August 13

The Supreme Court just handed gun groups a rare defeat

By Ian Millhiser August 8