Oral argument from the court.

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• Affirmative Inaction Anthony Kennedy is sort of horrified by voluntary school desegregation.
  Dahlia Lithwick Dec. 5, 2006
  
• Benchwarming The Supreme Court melts down over greenhouse gasses.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 30, 2006
  
• Doctor, There's a Lawyer in My Womb The Supreme Court attempts to understand partial-birth abortion.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 9, 2006
  
• Up in Smoke The Supreme Court makes one of the year's biggest cases disappear.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 31, 2006
  
• Button It The Supreme Court learns to stay out of this messy business of deciding cases.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 11, 2006
  
• Tequila Mockingbird Justice Scalia opens the 2006 term with a bang.
  Dahlia Lithwick Oct. 3, 2006
  
• RICO-Mania The Supreme Court contemplates whether illegal hiring is racketeering.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 26, 2006
  
• Death Math The Supreme Court tinkers with the calculus of capital punishment.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 25, 2006
  
• Because I Say So The Supreme Court takes the military tribunals out for a spin.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 28, 2006
  
• Mess With Texas The Supreme Court has another look at partisan gerrymanders.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 2, 2006
  
• Rack and Ruin The Supreme Court considers Anna Nicole's surprisingly real claims.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 28, 2006
  
• Dirty Water The Supreme Court takes a long, tall drink from the Clean Water Act.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 21, 2006