#Judiciary

On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard argument in two cases about when the president can target private attorneys.

From Slate Magazine: Samuel Alito Is Fuming That Blue States Outsmarted His Dobbs Decision

Over his two decades on the Supreme Court, United States Chief Justice John Roberts had consistently played the long game.

SCOTUS rushed out Monday’s decision on an expedited basis, presumably so Alabama would have enough time to enact its new gerrymander before the midterms.

From Slate Magazine: Virginia Democrats Can Still Save Their Map. Republicans Already Showed Them How.

The state of Alabama is locked in legal wranglings over congressional and state Senate districting, and Gov. Kay Ivey has signed related legislation.

Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigned amid an investigation into an alleged relationship with an attorney who worked on a redistricting lawsuit in the state.

There is a particular kind of violence the court’s majority prefers because the justices can deny it while it is happening.

From Slate Magazine: Does John Roberts’ Whites-Only Childhood Home Explain the Supreme Court’s Callais Ruling?

From Slate Magazine: Guess Whose Rights the Supreme Court Thinks Come With a Stopwatch

From Slate Magazine: One State Just Made a Unprecedented Move Toward Locking Up Women Who Seek Abortions

The Supreme Court’s stay is a temporary roadblock, but it doesn’t hide the administration’s real goal: to limit access to abortion.

Anti-abortion groups have had their share of trouble since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, even in red-state courts.

The Supreme Court has warned the judiciary against "caste-biased" practices after finding that only activists from marginalised communities were ordered to perform menial labour as a condition for bail in Odisha.

From Slate Magazine: Here’s Proof of Just How Bad Voting Rights in America Are About to Get

From Slate Magazine: There’s Something More Sinister Beneath Trump’s Ballroom Obsession

From Slate Magazine: A Comprehensive New Book Exposes One of the Worst Pieces of the Modern Legal System

Tucked away in rural western Maryland, past a dead-end road cut off by railroad tracks, a stream runs cool and clear over a ledge dotted with snails.