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Front row, left to right: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. and Justice Elena Kagan. Back row, left to right: Justice Amy ...

Public opinion of the court is strongly polarized along partisan lines. Today kicks off the first day of the Supreme Court’s new term, and to mark the occasion, we decided to take a look at where ...

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with its landmark decision ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. The most influential cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, which begins on Oct. 6, 2025, reflect the cultural and partisan clashes of ...

The Supreme Court often releases one or two big, splashy environmental decisions each term. Last year it was overruling a decades-old legal precedent called the “Chevron deference,” which allowed ...

The following essay has been adapted and excerpted from Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights, published last month by ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last week, the Supreme Court ended a term unlike any other. The Roberts Court, with ...

If things stay true to form, President Trump will benefit from the Roberts court’s generous takes on executive power. The rest of us may not be so lucky. Fall is upon us, and so is the Supreme Court.

After an eventful summer of travel, teaching, and book tours, the Supreme Court justices are back—except it feels like they never left. Normally, we court-watchers and legal pundits digest the big ...