Dahlia Lithwick
Jurisprudence
No More Mr. Nice JusticeBrett Kavanaugh’s kindness and courtesy has no bearing on whether he should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Jurisprudence
Two Historians Resigned Over the Appointment of a Trump Flunky at UVA. They Were Right to Do So.
Amicus
The Scalia FactorRick Hasen on his book, The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption.
Jurisprudence
Kavanaugh Already Has One of the Clearest Records Against Roe of Any Recent Supreme Court Nominee
Amicus
The Argument That Could Reclaim the Supreme Court for DemocratsSen. Sheldon Whitehouse on the frustrating process of vetting a new Supreme Court justice.
Jurisprudence
Kneecapping Unions and Weaponizing the First AmendmentDiscussing the big cases of the Supreme Court term.
Jurisprudence
Why Anthony Kennedy Gave UpIn his last year on the bench, the lifelong devotee of dignity and the rule of law joined Team Trump. What happened?
Amicus
Voting: Purging, Packing, Cracking, StandingAnalysis of SCOTUS gerrymandering and voter purge decisions with Paul M. Smith, who argued two of the cases.
Politics
How They Defend the IndefensibleThe Trump administration is playing a game of choose your own facts, but every single version of this story ends with screaming children in cages.
Family
Raising Boys in an Age of “Gender Battles”If more men publicly called out their female partners as true intellectual equals, it would set an important example for our sons.
Political Gabfest
The “Special Place in Hell” EditionListen to Slate’s show about the Kim-Trump summit, voting rights in Ohio, and Tuesday’s primaries.
Amicus
Bonus: Live From the ACLUA legal all-star panel with David Cole, Vanita Gupta, Joyce White Vance, and Richard Painter.
Amicus
A Taftian Antidote to Trumpian Excesses?What a most judicious past president can teach us about this moment.
Politics
Double-Decker NarcissismDonald Trump’s supporters believe the guy who believes only what he wants to believe.
Jurisprudence
Brett Kavanaugh Was a MistakeDonald Trump picked the judge who’s most inclined to say the president can’t be indicted. Pro tip: That makes him look guilty.
Amicus
With Kennedy Gone, What’s on the Chopping Block?Our annual look at the end of the Supreme Court term.
Jurisprudence
Anthony Kennedy Stands DownThe justice’s Trump-friendly votes on the travel ban and crisis pregnancy centers show he’s done playing the role of the wise centrist.
Jurisprudence
The Government Had No Intention of Reuniting Separated FamiliesThere’s also no plan to do so now.
Jurisprudence
Can the Left Reclaim the Language of Morality?The Rev. William Barber II explains how our politics strayed from the core values embedded in the Constitution—that we have a moral obligation to care for one another.
Jurisprudence
The Supreme Court Is Not Going to Save YouUnder John Roberts, SCOTUS has shied so far from anything resembling partisanship that it risks undermining its own authority.
Politics
Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the BorderLawyers, translators, donations, protest.
Politics
It’s All Too Much, and We Still Have to CareWhat’s going on at the border is horrifying, but we can’t go numb and turn away.
Jurisprudence
Fraud Fiction Becomes Purge RealityThe Supreme Court’s decision in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute is the culmination of a decadeslong effort to disenfranchise minority and low-income voters.