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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty 20 Bold Takes on the Roe Draft Opinion
The conservative case for upholding Roe v. Wade, understanding Justice Alito’s legal reasoning, and more
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Alito Got Right
The Court’s job is not to determine which rights we should possess but rather which rights we do possess.
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Getty; The Atlantic Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century
If the conservative justice’s draft opinion is adopted by the Court, key advances of the past hundred years could be rolled back.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Conservatives Aren’t Just Ending Roe—They’re Delighting in It
This is the work of the Supreme Court’s emboldened, radical majority.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Let Coach Kennedy Pray
In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court has the chance to ensure that teachers are not the state’s robots.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Conservative Justices Don’t Seem Too Worried About the Court’s Legitimacy
Fears about the Supreme Court’s public reputation used to have a moderating influence—but that may not be the case any longer.
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David Becker / Getty; The Atlantic The DOJ Needs to Investigate Trump’s Records Management
Protecting the paper of a presidency is about nothing less than the rule of law.
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Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty The Court Loses Its Chief Pragmatist
With the upcoming retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, the country moves into a more ideologically divided future.
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Graeme Sloan / Sipa USA / AP Executive Privilege Is Lawless
And the Supreme Court is okay with that.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Culture War Has Warped the Supreme Court’s Judgment
Yesterday’s decision hinges on a new and alarming embrace of the right-wing crusade against vaccination.
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The Atlantic The Vaccine-Mandate Case Is About So Much More Than Vaccine Mandates
This could be the start of a major dismantling of the federal government.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Republican Axis Reversing the Rights Revolution
We are witnessing a reordering of American life not seen in half a century.
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The Atlantic Court Reform Is Dead! Long Live Court Reform!
The Commission on the Supreme Court’s findings may end up helping to set reform in motion, rather than stopping it in its tracks.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty The Court Invites an Era of Constitutional Chaos
With its decision on S.B. 8, the Court is signaling that other states are welcome to imitate Texas’s strategy for eviscerating long-held legal protections.
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Getty; The Atlantic Republicans Hope Their Assault on Democracy Will Stop a Post-Roe Backlash
Conservatives on the Supreme Court have engineered a system that allows half the country’s population to be stripped of a fundamental constitutional right.
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Drew Angerer / Getty; Win McNamee / Getty The End of Roe
Today’s oral argument signaled that the Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade outright.
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Andrea Morales / The New York Times / … The Judge Who Told the Truth About the Mississippi Abortion Ban
The ban that comes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday is “pure gaslighting,” says the controversial judge who struck it down.
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Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty The One Decision Breyer Can’t Make
Why it’s so hard to convince a justice to retire.
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Alex Majoli / Magnum Conservative Justices Suddenly Discover Limits to Religious Liberty
These jurists appear to believe that questioning other people’s motives is uncivil and undignified—except when they feel like doing it.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Anti-abortion Movement Will Win Even If It Loses
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical of Texas’s new law, but that doesn’t mean Roe will stand.
