Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The court’s ruling sets a disturbing precedent for voting rights in several ways.

For court watchers waiting for the Supreme Court decision that could doom the Voting Rights Act, Monday’s emergency docket ruling out of New York was ominous. The Court, in a flailing overreach, ...

The expected release date of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s new book has led legal experts to speculate that he might have plans to retire this year. Alito’s book, So Ordered: An ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied a group of municipalities' emergency request to delay the implementation of New Jersey’s Fourth Round affordable housing deadline on Feb. 24. The docket ...

From Baltimore to Honolulu, cities have made their views clear: Oil companies whose pollution contributed to climate change should be financially responsible for a fair share of the consequences.

This week, there’s been a lot of attention focused on the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to its stunning decision blowing up the rationale for Donald Trump’s tariff agenda. In his bitter remarks about the ...

On Friday, a 6-3 SCOTUS majority struck down the bulk of President Trump's tariffs. Three conservative justices, Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito, issued a pair of dissenting opinions. See why they said ...

Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate. What's more, they face a remarkably favorable map this November: The GOP is defending very few (if any) swing-state Senate seats, and it will ...

Is U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito planning to retire when the Court's current term wraps up this summer? Another key factor in this swirl of speculation is the example set by the late Ruth ...

Samuel Alito, a suspected leaker of the Dobbs and Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decisions, wine aficionado and far-right flag waver, has a new book coming this fall. Ordinarily, a Supreme Court justice’s ...

Unless, Mystal suggests, Alito plans to retire. Certainly, Alito must be enjoying life as a leader of the conservative supermajority. You know, making it more difficult to vote, overturning ...