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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Gorsuch: Roe v. Wade Is the 'Law of the Land'
At Wednesday’s hearing, Democratic senators adopted a new strategy to press the Supreme Court nominee on abortion and campaign finance.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Does Judge Gorsuch Believe?
On the second day of Senate hearings, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee offered few clues as to how he’d rule on specific issues if confirmed.
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Pool / Reuters Gorsuch's Nomination Is the Fruit of a Broken Confirmation Process
The Colorado judge’s potential rise to the Supreme Court is compromised by the crudest sort of bare-knuckle partisan politics.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Gorsuch's Selective View of 'Religious Freedom'
Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia possesses the same limited view of religious freedom supported by the conservatives currently on the Supreme Court.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters A Supreme Court Nominee Alert to the Dangers of Big Business
Far from reflexively favoring big corporations over small competitors, Judge Neil Gorsuch has a nuanced view of antitrust law.
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Hugh Gentry / Reuters Why Trump's Revised Travel Ban Could Still Succeed
Despite judicial setbacks, federal law leaves open the possibility that the president’s new executive order might prevail––if he can keep quiet.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court Confronts Racism in the Jury Room
Is racism in deliberations any less toxic than racism in open court?
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Patrick Fallon / Reuters Customs Agents' Unreasonable Demand
Why the immigration authorities ID search of a domestic flight at JFK is on weak legal ground.
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Jose Luis Gonzales / Reuters Is the Southern Border a Constitution-Free Zone?
The Supreme Court considers a case involving a youth on the Mexican side of the border killed by an American border patrol agent on the U.S. side.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Concedes Defeat on Travel Ban—for Now
The Justice Department said Thursday it would issue a revised version of its controversial travel ban after federal judges blocked its implementation.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump Tried to Intimidate the Judges Over His Ban, and He Failed
Presidents have thought before that they could roll those wimpy-looking nerds with their gavels and robes. It usually doesn’t work out all that well.
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Kate Munsch / Reuters Will the Courts Find Trump's Ban Unconstitutional?
The outcome of the battle over Trump’s travel ban focused on seven mostly Muslim nations is hard to predict.
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NBC The Genius of Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live
The actress made a surprise appearance as the White House press secretary.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Most Important Questions for Trump's Justice Are About Democracy
Senators should press Neil Gorsuch on questions fundamental to democratic government.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Filibuster: A Senator's Best Friend
How will Republicans respond if Democrats attempt to filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Sloppy, Unconstitutional Order on 'Sanctuary Cities'
The president’s executive order threatening to deny federal funds to jurisdictions that don’t help the feds deport undocumented immigrants reads like it was drafted by Lionel Hutz.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Two Cases Could Limit or Enhance Trump's Ability to Engage in Mass Deportations
The Supreme Court will examine two cases that could tell us how the conservative justices feel about the president-elect’s plan for mass deportations.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Can States Make People Pay Even When Their Convictions Are Overturned?
The Supreme Court considers whether states that charge inmates with fees and restitution have to return that money if their convictions are set aside.
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David Goldman, Richard Drew, Steve Helber, Chuck Burton … The Year in Religion and Politics
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016—from religious-liberty bills to Donald Trump's polarizing effect on evangelicals.
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Jeff Roberson, Andres Kudacki, Evan Vucci, Charles Rex … The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016, when longstanding tensions over race and identity erupted into conflict.
