Just over 20 years ago, John Roberts was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In those two decades, Roberts has blithely overseen the near-total dismantling of American democracy and ...

On Sept. 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 split, lifted a lower court’s restraining order that had prohibited immigration authorities in Los Angeles from stopping or detaining people based ...

In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...

"Alien: Earth" premieres on Aug. 12 on Hulu and FX. "Alien: Earth" is premiering Tuesday on FX Networks, and it's already creating a buzz. The series by creator Noah Hawley is described as a spin-off ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...

In an anti-institutional era, does any institution face more dangerous attacks than our Constitution’s judicial branch? Today, it faces outlandish political attacks from both the right and the left.

Get clear, smart takes on every major ruling. Subscribe to support Slate’s legal coverage. On Friday, President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying ...

The court granted Trump a win in its 6-3 ruling, which limited lower courts' power to universally block the president's executive order Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against federal courts issuing universal injunctions. Majority found lower court blocks on Trump’s citizenship order exceeded authority. Ruling narrows judicial power, leaves ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday cleared the way for the federal government to potentially enforce an executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The court’s dissenters — ...