The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed a budget reconciliation bill which, if enacted, would slash lifesaving health and food assistance by hundreds of billions of dollars, and transfer billions more ...

What’s the conservative case for fetal personhood? Basically, that the courts’ interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment has been wrong and crabbed for a long time. In an amicus brief in Dobbs, ...

Among the more distressing moments during oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a Supreme Court case challenging a Maryland school district’s use of children’s books with LGBTQ characters, came when ...

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Madiba K. Dennie is the Deputy Editor and Senior Contributor at Balls & Strikes, and author of The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take it Back. Her ...

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the conservative legal movement’s most ambitious attempt yet to refashion this country’s 250-year-old history of ...

The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...

Finally, Project 2025 weaponizes Students for Fair Admissions, the pair of cases the Court’s conservatives used to strike down affirmative action programs last year. Apparently, SFFA can do more than ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

The Supreme Court held today in United States v. Skrmetti that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution is no obstacle to laws that deny lifesaving medical care to transgender children. In 2023 ...