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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Judge Merrick Garland Meets a Senate Blockade
Top Republicans vowed to ignore President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court despite praising him in the past.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Supreme Court Confirmation Battle Begins
President Obama nominated 63-year-old Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up an election-year battle with Senate Republicans.
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Jim Watson / Getty Will Partisanship Undermine the Judiciary?
GOP senators want political parties, and not the president, to appoint the next Supreme Court justice. But history shows a more noble way.
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Courtesy of the British Library Hunting Among the Saints
What Justice Antonin Scalia’s association with a shadowy medieval sect reveals about governing natural resources.
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Wikimedia / Altairisfar The U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Adopt an Alabama Ruling
In a unanimous decision, the justices struck down a state-level ruling on a same-sex adoption case.
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David Paul Morris / Getty Will the Supreme Court Deadlock on the Texas Abortion Case?
The first contentious case since Antonin Scalia’s death has at least one justice looking for an exit.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP McConnell Puts the Ball Into Obama's Court
The Republican Senate leader still isn’t budging when it comes to considering a nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
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Charles Dharapak / AP Clarence Thomas Breaks His Silence
The Supreme Court justice asked a question for the first time in 10 years, revealing a different dynamic since the passing of Antonin Scalia earlier this month.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Will the U.S. Supreme Court Take Precedent Seriously on Abortion?
Justices are set to hear a major case this week—and will be forced to decide whether they meant what they’ve said in the past.
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Jae C. Hong / AP Trump's Birther Libel
The Republican front-runner is attempting to make American citizenship a matter of race and blood.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Can Democrats Get Republicans to Move on Scalia's Replacement?
Their PR campaign hit the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Should Obama Appoint Brian Sandoval to the Supreme Court?
With the moderate Republican governor of Nevada reportedly being vetted, two Atlantic staffers consider whether the move is a brilliant strategem or a hopeless strategic blunder.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Writ of Fido
The Supreme Court looks at how robbing a drug dealer can trip the Hobbs Act’s commerce provision and bring a petty thief a lot of federal trouble.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Senate Republicans Pledge to Ignore Obama's Pick for the Supreme Court
The president’s forthcoming nominee won’t even receive a hearing, much less a confirmation vote, GOP lawmakers announced Tuesday.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Scalia's Pro-Business Legacy
In case after case the late Justice sided with corporations over everyday Americans.
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Reuters The Supremely Old, Supremely Sharp, Supreme Court
Even into their 70s and 80s, justices remain as keen as ever. Is American law out of step with the way the human brain ages?
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Alex Brandon / AP The Muddled Future of Reproductive Rights
Justice Scalia’s death throws cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on abortion and contraception coverage into doubt.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP The Republicans' Scalia Hysteria
The Supreme Court justice’s departure doesn’t mark the conclusion of a generational shift. It is just the opening act.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Why Wasn’t Antonin Scalia Given an Autopsy?
In death, the Supreme Court justice was treated as an ordinary citizen, equal before the law.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Senate Awaits Its Doomed Nominee
Charges of judicial hypocrisy broke out among lawmakers as President Obama weighed naming a replacement for Antonin Scalia, who might not even get a vote.
