Dahlia Lithwick
The Breakfast Table
Supreme Court Breakfast TableEntry 7: Will SCOTUS make the travel ban fight moot?
The Breakfast Table
Supreme Court Breakfast TableEntry 3: Are Roberts and Kennedy drifting from the right toward the center?
Jurisprudence
Dodging InsanityThe Supreme Court doesn’t know how the justice system should deal with mental illness.
Jurisprudence
Trump May Never Fire Robert MuellerNevertheless, the president has taught us that potentially illegal actions are still possible, so long as he wants them to happen.
Amicus
Amicus: Nice Little FBI You’ve Got Here. Pity if Something Happened to It.What counts as “obstruction of justice”? And should judges pay attention to Trump’s Twitter feed?
Cover Story
When the Nazis Come Marching InI never feared the First Amendment until white supremacists came to my hometown.
Jurisprudence
Is Trump Trying to Lose?Three ways Monday’s bizarre tweetstorm sabotages his administration’s defense of the travel ban.
Amicus
Clarence Thomas’ Out-of-Left-Field Blow to GerrymanderingRead what Slate’s Amicus podcast had to say about Cooper v. Harris.
Amicus
Amicus: Clarence Thomas Is ColorblindThe most conservative justice casts a decisive vote to strike down race-based voting lines.
Jurisprudence
How the President Obstructed JusticeWhy legal scholar Laurence Tribe believes Trump committed impeachable offenses in his firing of James Comey.
Jurisprudence
Trump Poisons His Own LawsThe latest oral arguments over the administration’s travel ban show how the president’s words and intentions taint his agenda and the lawyers who defend it.
Amicus
The “Pity if Something Happened to the FBI” TranscriptRead what Amicus had to say about Comey’s testimony and the legal weight of Trump’s tweets.
Jurisprudence
Make This Obstruction Thing Go AwayTrump has always treated lawyers like hired help. As president, he’s finally found attorneys who refuse to do his bidding.
Jurisprudence
Polemicists in RobesThe president’s latest batch of bomb-throwing judicial nominees will transform the federal bench for generations to come.
Jurisprudence
Trump’s Tweets Must Now Be Taken SeriouslyThe 9th Circuit’s travel ban ruling declares the president’s Twitter feed is a legally binding stream of consciousness.
Amicus
The Animus Amicus TranscriptRead what Slate’s Amicus podcast had to say about International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump.
Jurisprudence
With Every Tweet, Trump Turns His DOJ Into More of a MockeryHow the president is losing his travel ban case every time he tweets about his travel ban.
Jurisprudence
Will He or Won’t He?How Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement decision became a battle over the judiciary and the Trump presidency.
Jurisprudence
Constitutional Crisis of ComedyDonald Trump’s defenders say his apparent obstruction of justice was a joke. Comedians don’t get it.
Jurisprudence
Bad Faith? What’s That?The Justice Department’s attempts to wish away Donald Trump’s Muslim ban statements are not working.
Amicus
Amicus: Animus AmicusA group of law professors tells a federal court that religious bias lies at the heart of Trump’s travel ban.
Politics
Donald Trump Wants an Etch A Sketch PresidencyUnfortunately for him, presidents don’t get to shake their past mistakes away.
Jurisprudence
Lawyers to the Rescue!Trump’s religious liberty executive order reads like it was lawyered to death.