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The Atlantic in Paris: Dispatch #1
The passing of Antonin Scalia roils the presidential campaign and could leave the Supreme Court deadlocked until 2017. Will the Senate even consider a replacement nominated by President Obama?
The justices split 4-4 in Friedrichs v. CTA, leaving a pro-union ruling in the lower courts intact.
President Obama nominated 63-year-old Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up an election-year battle with Senate Republicans.
The Court delivered a rare victory for voting rights—and may have given Democrats a handful of new seats.
The philosopher Shelly Kagan has gained millions of fans online while arguing that we can embrace physicalism without giving up meaning, morality, or human exceptionalism.
Despite an unusual number of 9-0 opinions this Supreme Court term, there are deep ideological divisions just below the surface.
The 5-4 ruling in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis could weaken workplace protections—and the justices on both sides knew it.