by Stephen L. Carter Suppose your city awards a lucrative contract for the purchase of new garbage trucks. Afterward, the company that won the bidding offers your […]
Tag: US Supreme Court
Interracial marriage went from criminal to commonplace. Could it go back?
by Nina Sharma American love stories have a default race: white. If the love story is “interracial,” one person is white, and the other person is not. […]
Secret audio of Justice Alito not the smoking gun liberals think
by Noah Feldman It’s hard to imagine a clearer violation of journalistic ethics than pretending to hold beliefs you don’t, asking Supreme Court justices if they agree, […]
Justice Alito’s Jan. 6 flag defense is just weird gender politics
by Noah Feldman Martha-Ann Alito lets her freak flag fly. And her husband, Justice Samuel Alito, can’t do much about it, according to a letter he sent […]
The Supreme Court doesn’t agree on what racism is
by Noah Feldman According to the Supreme Court, it’s perfectly fine for state legislatures to draw congressional districts according to political party — they just can’t gerrymander […]
Why the Justice Alito flag flap matters — even if he blames his wife
by Peter Jensen When I entered the world of professional journalism more than four decades ago, I quickly discovered that certain colleagues felt so strongly about the […]
The Supreme Court’s conservatives onstage, unplugged and unrepentant
by Jackie Calmes It’s that time of year when the life-tenured denizens of America’s imperial court, otherwise known as the Supreme Court, come down from their bench […]
Criminalizing homelessness is unconscionable, but is it unconstitutional?
by Robin Abcarian Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about whether a small Oregon city can cite and prosecute homeless people for sleeping in public […]
Will Trump be tried for Jan. 6?
by Harry Litman For those rightly concerned about the timing of Donald Trump’s federal Jan. 6 trial, Thursday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court gave plenty of […]
Jan. 6 case will test the Supreme Court’s hypocrisy
by Noah Feldman Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical that prosecutors could use the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to go after Jan. 6 rioters. It’s a […]
