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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Supreme Court Actually Understands the Internet
Justices acquitted themselves well during oral arguments on two pivotal cases this week.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty How the Supreme Court Protects Police Officers
It’s almost impossible to hold them to account.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Supreme Court Justices Do Not Seem to Be Getting Along
Collegiality is scarce, and tensions are apparent.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.
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Drew Angerer / Getty A Case That Even This Supreme Court Seems Torn Over
A better version of the independent state legislature theory is proving difficult to figure out.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Supreme Court Needs Real Oversight
Without an effective system in place, problems like leaks and conflicts will not be adequately addressed, and public confidence in the Court will continue to plummet.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Blindness of ‘Color-Blindness’
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Most Consequential First Amendment Case This Term
303 Creative v. Elenis isn’t about LGBTQ rights, as many people believe it to be, but about what constitutes speech.
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The Atlantic The Supreme Court Case That’s All About Donald Trump
Even if it’s not explicitly about him at all.
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Getty; The Atlantic An Unequal Liberty
Liberty does not have to mean what the Supreme Court thinks it means.
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Getty; The Atlantic What in the World Happened to the Supreme Court?
The conservative movement’s decades-long pursuit of the judiciary is now paying off.
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The Atlantic The Supreme Court Case That Could Break Native American Sovereignty
Haaland v. Brackeen could have major consequences for tribes’ right to exist as political entities.
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The Atlantic; Getty; Malike Sidibe for The Atlantic; … C. J. Rice’s Narrow Path to Freedom
The subject of The Atlantic’s November cover story maintains his innocence. Will the politicians on Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons vote to commute his sentence?
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Dietsch / Getty The Anti-abortion Movement’s New Distrust of Democracy
“It was never going to be the case that if voters wanted abortion to be legal, the movement would be comfortable with that,” Mary Ziegler says.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Most Important Amicus Brief in the History of the World
Parody is being threatened right when we need it most.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Supreme Court Has a Perfectly Good Option in Its Most Divisive Case
In Moore v. Harper, the justices should not side with the views of either party.
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Jonno Rattman for The Atlantic The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump
Merrick Garland hasn’t tipped his hand, but it’s clear to me that he will bring charges against the former president.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic There Is Absolutely Nothing to Support the ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory
Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Andy Warhol Case That Could Wreck American Art
Without strong fair-use protections, a culture can’t thrive.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Constitutional Case Against a Federal Abortion Ban
Plus: A proposal for rethinking early-childhood education on gender
