Same-sex marriage, Obamacare, and the rest of the 2014-15 Supreme Court term.

How Will History Remember This Supreme Court Term?

How Will History Remember This Supreme Court Term?

Law and the Supreme Court justices who interpret it.
July 4 2015 2:05 PM

Amicus: The Term in Review

Some SCOTUS watchers say the Roberts court is turning left.

Supreme court.
The justices have left the building.

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Listen to Episode 23 of Slate’s Amicus:

With the ink dry on all the decisions of the 2014–15 Supreme Court term, Dahlia sits down with a couple of fellow court watchers to reflect on how the term will be remembered. Are the big, term-ending rulings, as some observers suggest, evidence of a leftward shift in the Roberts court? Or are they anomalies for an otherwise quite conservative court?

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Dahlia mulls the question with fellow Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern. She is also joined by Kenji Yoshino of NYU Law School to consider the possibility of state-level backlashes against the court’s historic same-sex marriage ruling.

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Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast Amicus.