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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Supreme Court Isn't a Sufficient Reason to Vote for Trump
Republicans won’t get a conservative Supreme Court judge without winning the White House. The party’s nominee knows this and is using it to his advantage.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Scalia Made It Difficult to Bring Cases to Court
The late Supreme Court justice wrote a number of opinions that limited the ability of racial minorities, victims of police misconduct, and others to vindicate their constitutional rights.
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Jane Flavell Collins / AP What Are Victim-Impact Statements For?
Twenty-five years after the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, what exactly have victims of crime won? And at what cost?
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Justice Ginsburg's 'Ill-Advised' Comments on Donald Trump
The U.S. Supreme Court justice said she regretted her remarks about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but did not explicitly apologize.
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Mike Groll / AP Justice Ginsburg's Mistake
The U.S. Supreme Court justice imperiled the high court’s neutrality by weighing in on the 2016 presidential election.
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Denis Poroy / AP What Is on Justice Anthony Kennedy's Mind?
The impenetrable Supreme Court justice’s leftward shift and his latest blockbuster of a term.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court’s Big Immigration Case Wasn’t About Presidential Power
Obama has taken credit for his administration’s deferred-action program. But legally speaking, this challenge was about something else.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Rules for Abortion Are Still Rules—Not Loopholes
Texas’s H.B.2 statute imposed regulations that yielded no health benefit but made abortion a lot harder to get. The Supreme Court wasn’t fooled.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Politicians Who Stayed Quiet on the Supreme Court's Corruption Ruling
They had plenty to say about the justices’ decision on abortion, but went silent on the major ruling that could affect them the most.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Democrats Protested in the Wrong Chamber
The Supreme Court’s deadlock on immigration suggests that the protest should have been in the Senate, not the House.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What the U.S. Supreme Court Immigration Ruling Means for Hillary Clinton
She has vowed to expand President Obama’s executive actions. Thursday’s decision won’t necessarily prevent her from doing so.
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Jose Luis Magaua / Reuters How Affirmative Action Won the Day
In a 4-3 ruling on a case almost a decade in the making, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges can factor in race in admissions decisions.
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Jim Young / Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Tribal Authority Intact
A deadlocked ruling sustains the authority of tribal civil courts and helps define the legal concept of sovereignty.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Justices of Last Resort
Congress can't act, and the presidency is up against its limits—leaving only the Supreme Court to step in.
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Jim Young / Reuters Justice Sotomayor's Ringing Dissent
Citing writers from W.E.B. Du Bois to Ta-Nehisi Coates, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes issue with a ruling on unlawful searches.
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Emanuel Leutze / Architect of the Capitol / … The Legal Residue of American Empire
Imperialism has left tricky sovereignty questions with which the U.S. Supreme Court is only now reckoning.
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Evan Vucci / AP Puerto Rico Belongs to Congress
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the imminent passage of a debt-relief bill raise questions about Puerto Rico’s status.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Will the Supreme Court Rule on Transgender Bathrooms Sooner Rather Than Later?
A federal court in Virginia sided with a student who wanted to use boy’s bathroom, but the local school board is appealing the decision.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP Why the Supreme Court Won't Impact Gun Rights
The Second Amendment has been vigorously protected by the elected branches of government—don’t look for the next Court to change that.
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Cliff Owens / AP In Praise of Dissent
Supreme Court dissents are a relatively recent phenomenon that have fundamentally changed the course of constitutional dialogue. Too bad justices aren’t summoning much enthusiasm for them this term.
