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The decision is unanimous, but it leaves open two routes Republicans could take to pull mifepristone from the market.
I am begging the justices to learn from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s historic mistake.
It’s hard to see how they’d do it legally, but this Court has a history of reading the law creatively.
Even truly repulsive speakers have First Amendment rights.
The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is worse than nothing — Alito just proved it.
A defunct federal law is Republicans’ best hope of banning abortion throughout the United States.
Thanks to an opinion by Sam Alito, rigged maps now enjoy the Supreme Court’s unambiguous support.
Justice Samuel Alito brings no vision and no unique insights to his job — other than unrelenting loyalty to the GOP.
Two justices dissent.
Multiple federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s illegal racial gerrymander.
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political.
It’s unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they’ll just delay his trial so long that it doesn’t matter.
The justices already effectively gave Trump what he wants in his Supreme Court immunity case.
The fight over “ghost guns” is back before the justices.
But it’s not yet clear they’ve settled on a rationale for doing so.
Grants Pass v. Johnson is probably going to end badly for homeless people, but it’s not yet clear how broad the Court’s decision will be.
This case is about delaying his trial, and the GOP-controlled Supreme Court has given him everything he could reasonably hope for and more.
This week, the justices will hear the biggest case on homelessness in decades.
Grants Pass v. Johnson could make the entire criminal justice system far crueler. It also tests the limits of judicial power.
Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters.
The Court mostly reinstates Idaho’s ban on transgender health care for children.
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.
A federal law requires hospitals to provide abortions when necessary to prevent serious health consequences. The justices could neutralize that law.
Simmering tensions between traditionalist Republican judges and MAGA judges are starting to boil over.
The lawsuit challenging mifepristone should have never been heard by any court.
The Court’s decision could potentially undermine over 300 January 6 prosecutions, including Trump’s.
The stakes in the Supreme Court’s mifepristone case go way beyond abortion.
It is hard to believe that Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually agrees with her own opinion.
The Supreme Court’s center right appears increasingly frustrated with the judiciary’s far right.
This is a serious blow to the First Amendment and a victory for a notoriously anti-LGBTQ judge.
The federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges.
Texas Republicans are trying to rewrite the Constitution — and this Supreme Court could let them.
It’s one of two cases asking whether the government is allowed to speak freely to private companies.
With courts coming for abortion and IVF, it’s hard not to wonder what the Supreme Court will go after next.
No one is coming to save US democracy, except for ourselves.
This is the second major victory the Supreme Court handed Trump in less than one week.
Say goodbye to the GOP leader, but not the all-powerful Supreme Court that is his legacy.
So much for the rule of law.
Most of the justices appeared uncomfortable with “bump stocks,” devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire automatically.