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Bill Pugliano / Getty The Crumbleys Are Being Scapegoated for America’s Gun Failures
A society that has refused to regulate guns is now punishing parents for not doing so on their own at home.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Scott Cramer / … The Colorado Supreme Court Decision Is True Originalism
And that should theoretically appeal to the Supreme Court’s conservative justices.
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Eduardo Munoz-Pool / Getty Trump Can’t Hide His Utter Disdain for the Rule of Law
The former president’s testimony in a New York courtroom was a sad spectacle for the country.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty The Coming Attack on an Essential Element of Women’s Freedom
No-fault divorce has improved the lives of millions. Now some extreme Republicans want to abandon it.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters Trump’s Legal Turmoil Just Keeps Getting Worse
And worse
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Accountability Is Everything
The ubiquitous question posed during the Trump presidency—“Can he do that?”—continues to be the wrong question.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Yes, He Could Still Be President From Prison
Unless—perhaps—Special Counsel Jack Smith indicts Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Michael Duva / … The Supreme Court Just Keeps Deciding It Should Be Even More Powerful
Whatever conservative ethos of restraint there once was has vanished.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Supreme Court’s Extreme Power Grab
In West Virginia v. EPA, the conservative justices acted like they were handing power to the people, but in reality they were giving it to themselves.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Best Hope for Fixing America’s Gun Crisis
It’s not legislation.
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Getty; The Atlantic What We Keep Getting Wrong About Abortion
Liberty requires restraints on government power.
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Getty; The Atlantic How the Court Became a Voting-Rights Foe
For years, the conservative majority has worked to cement a system where entrenched leaders pick their voters in a bid to stay in power indefinitely.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Supreme Court Has Anointed Itself Czar of the Country’s COVID Rules
The conservative justices say that vaccine policy is Congress’s or the states’ job, but in practice they’re the ones calling the shots now.
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The Atlantic The Vaccine-Mandate Case Is About So Much More Than Vaccine Mandates
This could be the start of a major dismantling of the federal government.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Roe Could Take Down With It
The logic being used against Roe could weaken the legal foundations of many rights Americans value deeply.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Sleeper SCOTUS Case That Threatens the Separation of Church and State
Carson v. Makin could set a new precedent for how taxpayer dollars are used to fund religious education.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Case for Subpoenaing Members of Congress to Testify on the January 6 Insurrection
Democrats have strong constitutional arguments on their side.
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Getty; The Atlantic This Court Has Abandoned the Most Essential Element in American Democracy: Voters
Two recent decisions capture perfectly just how distorted the Court’s approach is.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty The Country Is On the Cusp of a New Era
America is inching closer to a possibility it has never seen before: the indictment and trial of a former president.
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David Arky / Glowimages / Getty / The … The Two Memos With Enormous Constitutional Consequences
What’s astonishing is that presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all.
