U.S. Supreme Court
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.
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?