How Democrats can heed the lessons of 2022 in the year to come

It’s by no means clear that the high court will ultimately spike the administration’s loan forgiveness plan, but it will have a range of opportunities.

The just-passed defense spending bill includes provisions designed to protect judges from violence. But legal journalists say these measures infringe on their rights.

The hot new electoral subversion idea brewed up by the conservative legal movement may be too extreme for some of the Supreme Court’s conservatives.

The high court’s conservatives could alter protections for LGBTQ citizens based on a case whose plaintiff describes an entirely hypothetical injury.

The Trump-appointed judge, who tried to do the former president a favor in the Mar-a-Lago affair, received a stern correction from the Eleventh Circuit.

Who gets the final say on deportations and enforcement, Washington or the states? The high court faces some nettlesome questions—and some intriguing divisions.

In a potentially significant case about parody and intellectual property, the high court may get the last laugh.

The clock is ticking for the anti-democracy “independent state legislature” takeover.

The majority’s arguments in last year’s big gun-control ruling has touched off some truly chaotic interpretations from lower courts.

America’s best-known Supreme Court clerk mill is abandoning the U.S. News college rankings—and other schools are following suit. What are they playing at?

If the Democrats don’t use the lame-duck session to take this economic doomsday device out of the incoming GOP’s hands, God help us all.

Now that a federal judge has vacated Title 42, which used the pandemic as a pretext for expelling asylees, the White House will have to adapt on the fly.

The high court catches a case that’s both dizzyingly complicated and relatively simple: Are tribal governments a legitimate part of the U.S. constitutional order?

Democrats have advocated for years to add D.C. and Puerto Rico to the 50 states. There’s a constitutional path for statehood for tribes too.

The suits brought by the Cato Institute and other more mysterious plaintiffs are totally meritless. The president has the power to make them null and void—if he’ll use it.

Liberals can fight back against the high court’s attack on affirmative action by illuminating the inclusive constitutionalism of our founding documents.

After an epic day of oral arguments in two affirmative action cases, it’s clear that the conservative justices will do what they want regardless of facts, law, or precedent.

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As the Supreme Court prepares to consider two affirmative action cases, originalism will be put to a test.