Outside the Beltway

It’s good to be king.

A unanimous Supreme Court has ordered the administration to comply with a lower court order.

Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Barrett sided with the Court’s liberals.

Could Democrats replace their oldest Justice before it’s too late?

Apparently even she gets it wrong.

Too little, too late.

Cruel punishment is not unusual.

A reasonable ruling with horrible consequences.

A reasonable ruling clarifying a poorly-written prior opinion.

Gaming the appointment process.

A longstanding precedent may be in jeopardy.

Some of these have been piling up for a while.

Of party, duty, age, and political roulette.

It’s easy if you try.

The Supreme Court sided with an anti-gay website designer.

The central question remains unresolved.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

A surprising ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

Dueling headlines give radically different impressions of the same case.

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

The class photo has changed.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

The Supreme Court has reversed decades of precedent on church-state separation.

A comparison of the two texts.

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

The longest-serving Supreme Court Justice is a nice guy.

You-VAL-dee? You-VAHL-day? Oo-VAHL-deh?

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

We deserve better.

The highest court in the land issued a split decision on President Biden’s COVID policy.

We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.

There will be no religious exemptions. For now, at least.

Doing nothing is still a choice, and the legitimacy crisis is here, like it or not.

A few observations on Whole Woman’s Health, et al., Applicants v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, et al.

A rather odd non-ruling during the non-session from America’s highest court.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

The right to worship trumps the public’s health.

A legally correct ruling based on a lie.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

Two rulings greatly expand the ability to evade the law for on Free Exercise grounds.

A seemingly obvious result that isn’t.

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

The Supreme Court took up the DACA issue today. No matter what it decides, this will likely become a big issue in the 2020 elections.