Chief Justice John Roberts often laments that he has limited clout as he deals with his eight Supreme Court colleagues.

The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to weigh in on transgender sports bans will put two conservative justices in the ...

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.

Chief Justice John Roberts was most often in the majority this term, dissenting in just two of the 58 argued cases that the ...

The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.

But it also leaves lower courts room to continue defending trans rights, exploiting Roberts’ self-defeating sophistry to carve out protections where the majority fails to foreclose them. Skrmetti is a ...

Chief Justice John Roberts chastised President Donald Trump early on in his second term, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...

Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court ignored Congress's intention in its ruling on retroactive relief under the First ...

That there remains, even now, a narrow place for light. Correction, June 27, 2025: This post originally misstated that the Gutierrez majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Three justices—Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett—wanted the court to issue a broad declaration that discrimination against transgender people is not inherently suspect under ...

After Supreme Court oral arguments last December, it was clear conservative justices had the votes to uphold state bans on gender care for trans youths under age 18. The question was how far the ...