The Court’s Ballroom Decision Is a Sign of Deeper Problems
The conservative justices have separation of powers exactly backwards.
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Illustration by Allison Davis / The Atlantic. Sources: Kevin Carter / Getty; Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg / Getty; fotograzia. The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights
The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are violated.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving
In Skrmetti, the Court turned to a decades-old decision once thought to be consigned to history.
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters / Library of Congress How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. How the Trump Administration Learned to Obscure the Truth in Court
This is a litigation strategy born of the first travel ban.
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What was once constitutionally prohibited is now constitutionally required.
Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Election Is Already Under Way in America’s Courts
And the two parties—and the judges they have appointed—are on completely divergent legal paths.
Getty / The Atlantic Progressives’ Supreme Court Victories Will Be Fleeting
The groundwork is now in place for major conservative wins in the years ahead.
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Bettmann / Getty The Supreme Court Says Sorry, It Just Can’t Help With Political Corruption
In overturning the criminal convictions that resulted from the Bridgegate scandal, the Court is embracing a view of the world that is unbearably bleak.
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