“No Right Is Safe”: SCOTUS Bars Judges From Reining in Trump
The Supreme Court halted courts from issuing national injunctions, forcing “judges to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness.”
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Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange
Over two days this week, a U.K. court will hear Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to the U.S.
Alito’s Dissent in Emergency Abortion Case Provides “Building Blocks” for More Extreme Bans
Despite deciding not to decide, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority laid out a legal road map for anti-abortion zealots.
After Nine Execution Dates and Three Last Meals, Richard Glossip May Soon Walk Free
After the Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Richard Glossip, his fate is in the hands of an Oklahoma City district attorney.
Executive Lawlessness: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach
From birthright citizenship to reproductive rights, SCOTUS is dismantling the legal limits on executive power.
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Is Constitutional, After All
And for some reason Justice Samuel Alito can’t stop talking about this witch trial judge.
Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the high court.
DNA Evidence Sent Anthony Sanchez to Death Row. But Did It Actually Solve the Crime?
A college ballerina was raped and murdered in Oklahoma. DNA put Anthony Sanchez at the scene. But it did not tell the whole story.
Supreme Court Allows Rodney Reed to Keep Up His Fight for DNA Testing
Texas has gone to great lengths to prevent DNA testing of crime scene evidence that Reed says could exonerate him.
Dissent Episode Five: The Death Penalty, Deadlines, and DNA
Rodney Reed has spent 25 years fighting Texas for the right to DNA testing that could prove his innocence. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in.