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Linda Greenhouse
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Alan Simpson’s Question to Robert Bork May Have Changed History
A softball question and he was out.
A Supreme Court Case Threatens the Church-State Divide
The case invites further fragmentation of public education.
The Declining Population Argument Against Abortion Returns
Three states are calling on the federal courts for help in making women have more babies.
One Big Decision Awaits the Supreme Court
Will the court resume or refrain from injecting itself into the country’s culture wars?
The Abortion Case That Has Much to Say About the Supreme Court
The court dismisses an abortion case it now says it should never have accepted, opening a window on internal tensions.
On Guns, the Supreme Court Steps Back
It’s impossible to see the court’s decision upholding a law disarming domestic abusers as anything but an exercise in institutional self-preservation.
How John Roberts Lost His Court
New challenges to the Supreme Court’s image of probity and detachment seem to keep coming.
Can the Supreme Court’s Liberals Reclaim Judicial Restraint?
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson points to a way forward for the court.
Free Speech Becomes a New Battleground in Abortion Litigation
The First Amendment looms large in lower court cases that may find their way to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Justices Say They Get Along. Should We Care?
What really matters is what the court does or doesn’t do.
The Texas Border War and the Battle Within the Supreme Court
Texas has presented the justices with the vehicle some of them have been waiting for to undo decades, if not centuries, of federal supremacy.
Abortion History Repeats Itself
More than 60 years ago, America was confronted with the story of a young woman forced to seek an abortion abroad after unwittingly taking a...