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It did so in today's Voting Rights Act ruling in Allen v. Milligan. This holding has implications for other cases where litigants attempt to overturn statutory precedents, especially longstanding ones.

John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh join liberal justices in 5-4 decision that is major victory for Voting Rights Act

Welcome to the Wednesday, March 8, Brew. 

Sackett v EPA – an attack on the Clean Water Act – is by no means the only threat to climate policy before the court

In Merrill v Milligan, the court will decide whether Alabama’s new congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act

The ruling will also carry implications for how other states draw their congressional maps.

Many fear the potential for extreme rightwing rulings on topics ranging from affirmative action to voting rights

On June 18, 2021, I wrote, "We don't have a 6-3 Conservative Court. We have a 3-3-3 Court." I'm not sure if I was the first person to coin the phrase 3-3-3 Court, but I was one of the first. And I elaborated on this theme in a Newsweek column,…

The Supreme Court has just vacated the Fifth Circuit's stay of a district court's preliminary injunction against HB20, Texas's new social media law by a 5-4 vote. Justice Alito (joined by Justices Gorsuch and Thomas) wrote a dissent. (Justice Kagan also noted that she would deny the stay, but did…