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Opinionpalooza: This SCOTUS Decision Is Actually Even More Devastating Than We First Thought
Administrative law may not sound sexy. And maybe that’s because it truly isn’t sexy. But it is at the very center of the biggest decisions this past Supreme Court term, and also widely misunderstood.…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court End-of-Term Breakfast Table
What just happened??? Despite going into June clear-eyed and well informed about the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, the number of huge cases before it, and the alarming stakes in so many…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court Puts Presidents Above the Law (Preview)
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority rounded out the term by gifting massive unprecedented power to commit criminal wrongdoing to presidents. A court that already put a thumb on the scale for fo…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Opinionpalooza: The Day SCOTUS Became President
While most everyone was reacting to Thursday’s Presidential debate, we had our eyes trained on the Supreme Court. It was again (surprise!) bad. SCOTUS determined that sleeping outside was illegal in …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS and MAGA’s Shared Vision For Government Comes Into View
What’s this? A bonus Opinionpalooza episode for one and all? That’s right! The hits just keep coming from SCOTUS this week, and two big decisions landed Thursday that might easily get lost in the mix…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Opinionpalooza: The Vanishing Emergency Abortion Decision (Preview)
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued two important decisions in its traditional fashion: a box of printed copies for those journalists in the press room, and furious SCOTUS website refreshing for t…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Rahimi and The Roberts Court’s All New, Also Old, Second Amendment Doctrine
Another major case for the “not a loss/not exactly a win” pile this term at SCOTUS. A majority of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority said what we knew all along - adjudicated domestic abusers …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS Says Yes to Bump Stocks, No to Gun Safety Regulation
A bump stock is an attachment that converts a semi automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire as many as 800 rounds per minute - an intensity of gunfire matched by machine guns. The deadliest mass s…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Opinionpalooza: Don’t Call the Mifepristone Case a Win (Preview)
What do you call a case where there’s no standing and yet the lawsuit is still standing? FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine AKA the mifepristone case, AKA the case that tried to raise a zombie l…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
The Supreme Court’s Appeal to Heaven
Over the past 15 years, the journalist and author Katherine Stewart has been charting the rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. On this week’s Amicus, Stewart joins Dahlia Lithwick and …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago