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The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.
On Monday, June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court halted a lower federal court ruling that blocked the Trump Administration from ...
Slate editor Dahlia Lithwick doesn’t think that supporters of President Donald Trump will suddenly discover a sense of ...
The Supreme Court lifted an injunction that had protected immigrants from removal to dangerous countries where they could ...
Three conservative justices have signaled they don’t believe the Constitution protects transgender people from discrimination ...
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that Donald Trump unlawfully federalized the California National Guard.
Dahlia Lithwick: You have been sounding the alarm that the Supreme Court was put up on the auction block and sold off to moneyed interests, while a lot of court watchers insisted that you were ...
Dahlia Lithwick: Let’s start with Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services. This is a case about “reverse discrimination” brought by a straight employee who claimed she faced ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has been intervening in President Donald Trump's ongoing assault on the law with "troubling" frequency, according to a pair of legal experts — even if the justices occasionally ...
But a number of prominent commentators, experts and groups — including Dahlia Lithwick, Leah Litman, Stephen Vladeck, Jennifer Taub, Chris Geidner, Court Accountability and Public Citizen ...
Dahlia Lithwick: We have already seen hugely consequential shadow-docket rulings just in the last few weeks. In some of them, we don’t know which justice is on what side.
Dahlia Lithwick: This seems a little seismic to me. And I want to flag that this was not a partisan decision. We had judges appointed by Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump on the panel.