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Supreme Court

donald trump
Eriq Gardner • February 19, 2024

The Trump Tower Doomsday Scenarios

Gaming out Trump’s various legal nightmares, and the second-order effects, with rainmaker Ted Boutrous.
Baratunde Thurston • July 9, 2023
The End of Affirmative Action and the Attempt to Erase Race
A candid conversation with Anurima Bhargava, a top civil rights litigator and education advisor, about a Supreme Court earthquake.
Eriq Gardner • May 22, 2023
The Warhol Diaries: Kagan v. Sotomayor
U.S. Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
Inside the titanic legal clash and Latinate trash-talk behind one of the most consequential cases to rock the art world, and Hollywood, in a generation.
Sundar Pichai
Eriq Gardner • October 3, 2022
Google’s Big SCOTUS Season
The O.G. tech giant is facing dire legal challenges from nearly every direction, over promoting terrorism, stealing rap lyrics, and more. The consequences could ricochet through Silicon Valley and Hollywood, from TikTok and Yelp to YouTube and Netflix.
The Thomases
Tina Nguyen • July 6, 2022
Who’s Afraid of Ginni Thomas?
The SCOTUS conservative majority’s unofficial First Lady has driven liberals berserk with her Trumpism, January 6th adjacency, and anti-Roe activism. It’s enough to make some in this town wonder if her Facebook posts narrate her husband’s internal monologue.
Brett Kavanaugh
Eriq Gardner • June 27, 2022
Kavanaugh & The New Fortune 500 Civil War
In a post-Roe world, each and every subject related to abortion will invite legal scrutiny: new attempts to regulate corporate behavior will come not just from states hostile to abortion, but also blue states that wish to punish those who interfere with someone’s ability to get an abortion.
Charles Harder
Eriq Gardner • June 27, 2022
Charles Harder vs. Vice
Harder, the attorney who drove a stake through Gawker, is taking aim at the media industry again with a case against Vice Media that could tempt the Supreme Court to reverse The New York Times v. Sullivan—and another targeting The Times, itself.
Rob Manfred
Eriq Gardner • June 6, 2022
M.L.B.’s Favorite Loophole Finally Faces Extinction
Major League team owners have good reason to believe that baseball’s lucrative, illogical, century-old antitrust exemption may be coming to an end.
Jerry Falwell and Reagan
Peter Hamby • May 9, 2022
The Dark Truth Behind the SCOTUS Ruling
The conservative justices angling to overturn Roe are also the embodiment of a ruthless fifty-year political campaign. To re-enshrine abortion rights, Democrats will need to fight even harder.
John Roberts
Eriq Gardner • May 9, 2022
Was Politico’s Supreme Court Leaker an Inside Man?
Four reasons why the media speculation may be overlooking a more mysterious culprit. Plus, what the legal fallout could mean for Julian Assange and James O’Keefe.