Biden calls for supreme court reforms including 18-year justice term limits
US supreme court decisions: the biggest cases this term and their outcomes
June 2024
Elena Kagan’s scathing Chevron dissent highlights US supreme court’s disregard for precedent
The court is turning into ‘an administrative czar’, says liberal justice after 40-year-old doctrine is overturned
April 2024
The US politics sketch
Trump immunity case suggests new role for supreme court: kingmaker
Martin Pengelly in Washington
Oral arguments over former president’s claim of immunity seem to have left Trump happier than the justice department
February 2024
Five key takeaways from US supreme court’s hearing on removing Trump from the ballot
Both conservative and liberal justices aggressively questioned argument that Colorado was right in barring Trump
July 2023
US colleges and universities are ‘selling access’ to supreme court justices
Papers show how judges come in regular contact with big donors and have lent the prestige of their position to aid partisan activity
June 2023
‘Victims are terrified’: supreme court ruling on stalking cases sparks alarm
Advocates fear ripple effects for other cases as court rules a perpetrator must be aware of the impact of their behavior
June 2022
‘Fewer rights than their grandmothers’: read three justices’ searing abortion dissent
Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan
The supreme court has overturned Roe v Wade – we’re republishing the dissenting opinion by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan
October 2018
Kagan and Sotomayor call for impartial court as final Kavanaugh vote looms
Two justices do not mention nominee by name at Princeton University panel but warn against court being seen as polarized
January 2016
Supreme court may overturn fee requirement for non-union workers
Conservative justices express support for striking 1977 ruling deeming the collection of fees from non-members by public sector unions as constitutional
September 2014
Elena Kagan officiates gay wedding as court mulls marriage equality
Wedding of supreme court justice Kagan’s former law clerk was the first same-sex ceremony at which she officiated
August 2013
Kagan says supreme court justices don't email – but do play video games
Youngest justice tells Rhode Island audience 'we're going to have to do a lot of thinking' about privacy and new technologies
June 2012
How will Doma fare in front of the US supreme court?
Scott Lemieux
Scott Lemieux: Despite the Roberts court's conservative lean, there is reason to hope it will rule the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional
October 2011
I want my court TV
Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick: Why does the US supreme court still refuse to let in cameras?
October 2010
Sexuality, privacy and the ethics of innuendo
Philip Dayle
Philip Dayle: What is the compelling public interest to justify the media's coded outing by describing a public official as 'cat-loving'?
August 2010
Elena Kagan appointed to the supreme court after US senate vote
Richard Adams's blog
One last win for Obama as Elena Kagan joins the US supreme court
Richard Adams
July 2010
liberty central
Elena Kagan's first amendment moment of truth
Dan Kennedy
No verdict in the Elena Kagan hearings
Megan Carpentier
June 2010
Michael Tomasky's blog
Kagan hearing check-in
Government making people eat vegetables doesn't sound like a bad idea, necessarily.
