Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Won’t Halt Texas’s Abortion Ban While The Justices Decide If Anyone Can Sue
The court will hear arguments on Nov. 1 on whether the Justice Department and abortion providers can sue Texas at all.
Zoe Tillman
Republican Lawmakers Are Pressing Ahead With Anti-Abortion Laws, With Or Without The Supreme Court’s Help
A fight over Georgia’s six-week ban shows what state-level anti-abortion efforts could look like depending on whatever the Supreme Court does next.
Zoe Tillman
Hundreds Of Athletes Have Signed Onto A Brief Calling For The Supreme Court To Protect Abortion Rights
"To have any of that autonomy taken away, to have someone else make decisions for my body and my career, is to take away my life’s pursuit," one Olympic soccer player said.
Stephanie K. Baer
Amy Coney Barrett And The Cult Of Conservative White Womanhood
White Christian mothers have historically succeeded in carrying out the work of white supremacist patriarchy by dressing it in a prettier, more feminine package.
Shannon Keating
RBG Is Dead, And Everything Is Going To Get So Much Worse
Under normal circumstances, the justice's death would be a time to consider her legacy. Instead, we’re bracing for the next worst thing.
Scaachi Koul
These People Are Telling Their Abortion Stories As The Supreme Court Prepares To Hear Its Biggest Reproductive Rights Case In Decades
More than 6,600 people signed their names to a new brief supporting abortion rights: “I hope the justices read every single one of them.”
Stephanie K. Baer
Would You Be Believed?
Christine Blasey Ford may have proven herself — to a handful of senators and millions of Americans watching — to be a credible witness to her own trauma. But through no fault of her own, she has also reinforced the incredibly high bar of believability.
Anne Helen Petersen
#MeToo Is Working
A new wave of #MeToo’d men resurfacing, alongside blowback against women who report abuse, doesn’t mean the movement is failing. It means change is happening.
Anne Helen Petersen
The "Shadow Docket" Lets The Supreme Court Rule In A Major Abortion Case At Midnight
It usually takes the Supreme Court months to rule in a case. But there’s a back door, and it’s getting a lot of use.
Zoe Tillman
Texans Now Have a Lucrative Incentive To Sue Abortion Providers
Abortion providers said they were complying with Texas’s 6-week abortion ban once it took effect Wednesday, citing the risk of an endless stream of civil claims.
Zoe Tillman
If The Government Wants Credit On Triple Talaq, It Deserves The Blame For Marital Rape
Yesterday, the Law Minister hailed the Supreme Court triple talaq verdict "a great dawn for women's empowerment". Two weeks ago, the government argued in the same court that when a husband rapes his wife, it's not rape.
Deepanjana Pal
“It’s Just Unbelievably Cruel”: Texas’s New Abortion Law Is Already Impacting People
“It creates all these hurdles that people have to jump over just to access basic, essential time-sensitive healthcare," one advocate said.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
A 6-Week Abortion Ban Is Taking Effect In Texas And Upending Decades Of Protections For Abortion Rights
The law, which bans abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy and empowers private citizens to sue to enforce it, went into effect Wednesday in a monumental shift on abortion rights.
Zoe Tillman
Not All Head Coverings Are Created Equal
On Abercrombie & Fitch's "Look Policy."
Johana Bhuiyan
The Supreme Court Again Made It Harder To Challenge State Laws That Restrict How People Can Vote
In a 6–3 decision, the court upheld Arizona voting laws that the challengers argued discriminated against Native American, Latino, and Black voters.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Will Keep The Federal Eviction Moratorium In Place While Legal Fights Go Forward
The moratorium, which has protected renters during the coronavirus pandemic, is currently set to expire at the end of July.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Ruled In Favor Of A Girl Who Said “Fuck Cheer” On Snapchat
A cheerleader originally sued her high school when it kicked her off the team for posting "fuck cheer" on Snapchat.
Stephanie K. Baer
The NCAA Lost A Major Supreme Court Case Over How Student-Athletes Are Compensated
While the NCAA can still restrict cash payments to players, the organization can no longer limit education-related benefits schools can give to them.
Sarah Mimms
Trump Wanted The Justice Department To Copy Texas's Failed Election Case But Add More Conspiracy Theories
House Democrats released documents on Tuesday about efforts by Trump and White House officials to get the Justice Department to wade into postelection fights.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Ruled Against LGBTQ Families In A Big Religious Freedom Case
The court sided with a Catholic agency that wouldn’t place foster kids with same-sex couples, but rejected a request to issue a broader ruling on nondiscrimination policies.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Saved Obamacare Again By Throwing Out A Republican Lawsuit
The 7–2 decision saw justices nominated by Donald Trump join with the court's liberals.
Paul McLeod
Anti-Abortion Activists Had A Plan To Get To The Supreme Court. It Worked.
The Supreme Court — now with a 6–3 conservative majority — will consider Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban during the next term.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Is Taking Up A Big Gun Rights Case For The First Time In More Than A Decade
The court’s conservative justices have signaled an interest in revisiting the scope of the Second Amendment.
Zoe Tillman
Biden Announced An Aggressive First Push To Diversify The Federal Courts
The White House announced judicial nominees who would break barriers if confirmed.
Zoe Tillman
Biden Is Considering History-Making Nominees For The Federal Courts
The FBI recently did a background check for a lawyer who would be the first American Muslim federal district judge, according to a source familiar with the process.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Has Now Officially Lost All Of His Postelection Challenges In The Supreme Court
Trump argued a case he’d filed in Wisconsin wasn’t moot even after Biden took office. The Supreme Court refused to hear it.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Says New York Can Get Eight Years Of Trump's Tax Returns
In a one-line order, the justices refused to pause a lower court decision that cleared the way for prosecutors to enforce a grand jury subpoena.
Zoe Tillman
Anti-Abortion Group Wants To Send Undercover Tapes To Supreme Court
An anti-abortion group wants to send secretly taped conversations from abortion clinic doctors to the Supreme Court. A restraining order now bars their release.
Dan Vergano
This Is How Families Are Reacting To The Supreme Court's Ruling On Spousal Visas
The judges' decision to back the government on minimum income thresholds was greeted with dismay, but there was some optimism among families with children.
Emily Dugan
Biden Was Against Packing The Supreme Court. A New Progressive Group Wants To Change His Mind.
A new coalition wants to build momentum on the left to add seats to the Supreme Court and undo Trump’s legacy on the bench.
Zoe Tillman
