In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court has the chance to ensure that teachers are not the state’s robots.
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.
And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.
The justices voted not to stay a lower court’s ruling that extended early voting and restored same-day registration in the swing state.
A better version of the independent state legislature theory is proving difficult to figure out.
The chief justice has enshrined bad-faith argumentation as the legal strategy most likely to succeed at the Supreme Court.
A majority on the Supreme Court lets states know it is serious about barring executions of the mentally disabled.