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The Lede

The Supreme Court Gets Back to Work

The Justices are heading into a busy, contentious season. The mood seems brittle.
The Lede

The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.
Q. & A.

Can Trump Deport People to Any Country That Will Take Them?

A Yale Law professor on the Administration’s third-country deportation powers—and why the Supreme Court allowed it to send eight men to a prison in South Sudan.
The Lede

The Supreme Court Sides with Trump Against the Judiciary

Its ruling lets the President temporarily revoke birthright citizenship—and enforce other unconstitutional executive orders without fear of being blocked by “rogue judges.”
The Lede

Trump’s De-legalization Campaign

After a Supreme Court decision, hundreds of thousands of immigrants who followed the law are among the easiest to deport.
Postscript

Justice David Souter Was the Antithesis of the Present

His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint.
Q. & A.

What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?
Essay

The Historic Trump Court Cases That We Cannot See

The former President is on trial in a courtroom that has banned cameras. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is deciding whether his other trials should even happen.
Our Columnists

The Supreme Court Appears Poised to Protect the Presidency—and Donald Trump

In arguments about Presidential immunity, the conservative Justices, who avoided mentioning Trump, made clear that they are less concerned with holding him accountable than with shielding former Presidents from retribution.
Daily Comment

The Shameless Oral Arguments in the Supreme Court’s Abortion-Pill Case

Even some conservative Justices seemed unpersuaded by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s claims.
News Desk

The Ghost of Bush v. Gore Haunts the Supreme Court’s Colorado Case

In 2000, the Court played an outsized role in the Presidential election. This year, in the fight over keeping Trump’s name on the ballot, that decision is a warning but not a precedent.
Persons of Interest

Sarah Isgur’s Majority Report

On “Advisory Opinions,” the lawyer and former Trump Administration spokesperson argues that the Supreme Court is good, even—or especially—in its current incarnation.
Daily Comment

Colorado Reconsiders Letting Trump on the Ballot

A Colorado Supreme Court case is one of several considering whether Trump should be disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment, but it has proceeded the furthest.
Our Columnists

Why the Champions of Affirmative Action Had to Leave Asian Americans Behind

The original concept in pursuit of diversity was vital and righteous. The way it was practiced was hard to defend.
Daily Comment

The Supreme Court’s Surprise Defense of the Voting Rights Act

The Chief Justice appeared impatient with the maximalist demands that partisans on the right are placing on a Court they seem to feel they own.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Clarence Thomas Travels First Class

Bon voyage to the Justice and Ginni!
Daily Comment

The Supreme Court Considers What May Be the Final Blow to the Voting Rights Act

Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor warn of what’s really at stake in Merrill v. Milligan.
Annals of Education

How the Federalist Society Won

The conservative legal movement was pivotal in getting Roe v. Wade overturned. But does it have any control over what happens next?
Dispatch

The Abortion Surge Engulfing Clinics in Pennsylvania

Patients are travelling to the state from Ohio, Kentucky, and even Louisiana, but how long will that option last?
Q. & A.

What Ethical Health Care Looks Like When Abortion Is Criminalized

How can physicians meet their obligations to patients after Roe?