Here is the transcript. Back when Citizens United was argued a second time, and Elena Kagan was the Solicitor General, she essentially asked the Supreme Court to lose in the least damaging way. She ...

In light of the Supreme Court argument taking place today on these issues, I am re-upping the post Bob Bauer and I wrote before the case was granted entitled The Supreme Court, The Political Parties, ...

Here is my earlier post on Caleb Nelson’s essay for the NYU Democracy Project. His essay is cited by both parties in this case, Trump and Slaughter, as well as in nine amicus briefs. Caleb Nelson, a ...

At One First, Steven Vladeck (Georgetown University Law Center) offers a quick and exceptionally sharp window into the legal stakes. Overall, he suggests Kagan is making three points (offering three ...

You can find the order. a concurrence, and a dissent at this link. All the Republican-appointed Justices are letting Texas engage in re-redistricting, at least for the 2026 elections, and all the ...

Supreme Court runs the risk of “turbocharging” mid-decade redistricting with its decision allowing Texas to move forward with a redrawn 2026 congressional map a lower court had blocked as a racial ...

As the Supreme Court’s Monday argument approaches in Trump v. Slaughter on the unitary executive branch theory and independent agencies, two outcomes already seem foreordained. The Court is likely to ...

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: A Trump administration official on Friday signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the 2030 census and other future federal government ...

It was “indisputable,” Alito wrote, that “the impetus for the adoption of the Texas map (like the map subsequently adopted in California) was partisan advantage pure and simple.” He wrote for himself ...

CNN: During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible ...

Only two decades ago, all nine Supreme Court justices agreed that extreme partisan gerrymandering could violate the Constitution, though they differed on what courts should do about it. On Thursday, ...