To cover the Supreme Court these days is to catalogue its lawlessness. The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon v. New York allows the president to effectively demolish the Department of Education—a Cabinet-level department that was created by Congress,

While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents don't always row in sync.

When the Supreme Court overturns rulings without offering any explanation, it is simply wielding raw power. And raw power without reason is the very essence of arbitrariness. Arbitrariness, in

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The Roberts Court has asked for reargument in a key redistricting case, a move that strongly suggests the conservative majority is about to whack the Voting Rights Act again.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Georgetown University law professor Stephen Vladeck about a recent pattern within the Supreme Court majority: issuing rulings with no written opinion.

In their decision allowing the Trump administration to dismantle the Department of Education, the justices didn’t offer one word of reasoning.

Many legal commentators apparently believe that, in the term that just ended, the Supreme Court further enabled President Donald Trump. The court did, in fact, issue a series of conservative decisions that Trump likes.

In a precedent-based legal system, you can’t know what the law is if you don’t have judicial opinions explaining why the courts have reached their conclusions.

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.