The latest in Supreme Court
![The Supreme Court will decide if Oklahoma must execute a man it doesn’t want to kill](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/temp_00c57a.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.401312509862%2C0%2C59.728624980275%2C42.624020159897&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court will decide if Oklahoma must execute a man it doesn’t want to kill](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/temp_00c57a.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.46915626479364%2C0%2C89.592937470413%2C42.624020159897&w=2400)
The state’s Republican attorney general took the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to set aside Richard Glossip’s capital conviction.
![The Supreme Court will decide whether to let criminals get guns without a background check](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25413906/1248621139.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court will decide whether to let criminals get guns without a background check](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25413906/1248621139.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The Court considers legalizing “ghost guns,” untraceable weapons that evade laws intended to keep guns away from criminals.
![What will the Supreme Court unleash on America in its new term?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21890187/AP_20036118718228.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![What will the Supreme Court unleash on America in its new term?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21890187/AP_20036118718228.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The justices return to Washington after an unforgivable betrayal.
![How would a second Trump presidency change America’s courts?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-666925698.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.673786858602%2C0%2C70.652426282795%2C100&w=2400)
![How would a second Trump presidency change America’s courts?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-666925698.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.8206813451638%2C100%2C94.358637309672&w=2400)
There’s a real risk Trump would fill the courts with MAGA nihilists.
![Kamala Harris and Oprah humanized the consequences of state abortion bans](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-2172275535.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.668883863243%2C0%2C66.662232273513%2C100&w=2400)
![Kamala Harris and Oprah humanized the consequences of state abortion bans](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-2172275535.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0033257948649705%2C0%2C99.99334841027%2C100&w=2400)
Harris and Winfrey spoke to the family of Amber Thurman, who died after doctors delayed abortion-related care.
![The Supreme Court is about to decide whether to interfere in the election again](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7528747/614197134.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.633333333333%2C0%2C66.733333333333%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court is about to decide whether to interfere in the election again](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7528747/614197134.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C99.9000999001&w=2400)
Republicans want the Court to place the Green Party back on Nevada’s ballot after it was removed.
![The impact of the Supreme Court’s reversal of affirmative action, explained in one chart](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-1426733956.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The impact of the Supreme Court’s reversal of affirmative action, explained in one chart](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/gettyimages-1426733956.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Preliminary data shows a negative impact on Black enrollment at some universities.
![The huge stakes in the Supreme Court’s new abortion case](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2158552985.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The huge stakes in the Supreme Court’s new abortion case](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2158552985.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Oklahoma v. HHS could potentially blow up much of Medicare and Medicaid if the justices decide to wild out.
![A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2162477749.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.736436704622%2C0%2C66.527126590757%2C100&w=2400)
![A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2162477749.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.10465505693235%2C0%2C99.790689886135%2C100&w=2400)
The Supreme Court’s Bruen decision will keep on creating chaos until it is overruled.
![The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2166317429.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2166317429.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The Court’s decision in RNC v. Mi Familia Vota could have been much worse for democracy, even if it’s not all good.
![Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1094199898.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=10.4875%2C0%2C79.025%2C100&w=2400)
![Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1094199898.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C7.8192555098598%2C100%2C84.36148898028&w=2400)
A new Supreme Court case could potentially hand Arizona to Donald Trump.
![Did the Supreme Court just overrule one of its most important LGBTQ rights decisions?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1365645381.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Did the Supreme Court just overrule one of its most important LGBTQ rights decisions?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1365645381.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The Court appeared to abandon Bostock v. Clayton County this weekend.
![What can be done about this Supreme Court’s very worst decisions?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1198669899_ea5cf4.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=13.871282301316%2C0%2C72.257435397367%2C100&w=2400)
![What can be done about this Supreme Court’s very worst decisions?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-1198669899_ea5cf4.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.8686459739091%2C100%2C92.262708052182&w=2400)
It is important to hang onto grudges against the Supreme Court.
![The First Amendment is in grave danger if Trump wins](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9938185/GettyImages_667089896.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.13141025641%2C0%2C65.737179487179%2C100&w=2400)
![The First Amendment is in grave danger if Trump wins](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9938185/GettyImages_667089896.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.69711538461539%2C0%2C98.605769230769%2C100&w=2400)
Three Supreme Court justices want to drastically roll back the First Amendment. Trump could make it five.
![Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24169992/1428468885.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663767611759%2C0%2C66.672464776483%2C100&w=2400)
![Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24169992/1428468885.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0043482041916647%2C100%2C99.991303591617&w=2400)
Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.
![Biden’s new Supreme Court reform proposals are mostly useless](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25342424/1246877112.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Biden’s new Supreme Court reform proposals are mostly useless](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25342424/1246877112.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The president is finally going after the high court, but his ideas are pretty weak.
![A new Supreme Court case threatens to gut the Court’s one good trans rights decision](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25048100/1063108716.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.672224074692%2C0%2C66.655551850617%2C100&w=2400)
![A new Supreme Court case threatens to gut the Court’s one good trans rights decision](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25048100/1063108716.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0083361120373482%2C0%2C99.983327775925%2C100&w=2400)
Republican Justice Neil Gorsuch surprised most Court watchers by supporting trans rights in Bostock v. Clayton County. We’re about to find out if he actually meant it.
![Republicans ask the Supreme Court to gut student loan relief a second time](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24763321/1364051755.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Republicans ask the Supreme Court to gut student loan relief a second time](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24763321/1364051755.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The Court’s first decision blocking student loan forgiveness was a lawless mess.
![Could Republicans sue to keep Biden on the ballot?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2159971779_d7b6f7.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.675%2C0%2C66.65%2C100&w=2400)
![Could Republicans sue to keep Biden on the ballot?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2159971779_d7b6f7.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.012500000000003%2C0%2C99.975%2C100&w=2400)
Speaker Mike Johnson’s threat to challenge Vice President Harris’s nomination in court should be frivolous. But who knows with this Supreme Court?
![The Supreme Incompetents](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1204098864.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.657142857143%2C0%2C66.685714285714%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Incompetents](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1204098864.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.014281633818911%2C100%2C99.971436732362&w=2400)
The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.
![The Supreme Court handed down a hugely important First Amendment case today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2149436408.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.875%2C0%2C70.25%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court handed down a hugely important First Amendment case today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2149436408.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.5504151838671%2C100%2C94.899169632266&w=2400)
A few minutes before the Court held that Trump was allowed to do crimes, it did hand Republicans a meaningful loss.
![The Supreme Court’s disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1198669899.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=13.871282301316%2C0%2C72.257435397367%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1198669899.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.8686459739091%2C100%2C92.262708052182&w=2400)
The Court’s Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
![Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2159699954.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669504512174%2C0%2C66.660990975651%2C100&w=2400)
![Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2159699954.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0042567682615342%2C0%2C99.991486463477%2C100&w=2400)
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
![The Supreme Court just made a massive power grab it will come to regret](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-696327606.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=13.2%2C0%2C73.6%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court just made a massive power grab it will come to regret](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-696327606.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C4.7101449275362%2C100%2C90.579710144928&w=2400)
Welcome to hell, SCOTUS.
![What a big new Supreme Court decision could mean for homeless Americans](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3458-rotated.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C12.5%2C100%2C75&w=2400)
![What a big new Supreme Court decision could mean for homeless Americans](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3458-rotated.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C25%2C100%2C50&w=2400)
The Grants Pass v. Johnson decision does not spell the end to fights over tent encampments in America.
![The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1198673347.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.736719478099%2C0%2C70.526561043802%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1198673347.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.7364827662152%2C100%2C94.52703446757&w=2400)
SEC v. Jarkesy could render much of the federal government unable to function.
![The Supreme Court’s new abortion decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158500442.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s new abortion decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158500442.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The leaked decision is not a victory for abortion rights.
![The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1094199898.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=10.4875%2C0%2C79.025%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1094199898.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C7.8192555098598%2C100%2C84.36148898028&w=2400)
Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.
![The Supreme Court hands an embarrassing defeat to America’s Trumpiest court](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1246876796.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669854628921%2C0%2C66.660290742158%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court hands an embarrassing defeat to America’s Trumpiest court](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1246876796.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0047819433817935%2C0%2C99.990436113236%2C100&w=2400)
No, MAGA judges don’t get to decide what the Biden administration is allowed to say.
![Louisiana wants the Ten Commandments in public schools. Will the Supreme Court let it?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1682974375.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.671052631579%2C0%2C66.657894736842%2C100&w=2400)
![Louisiana wants the Ten Commandments in public schools. Will the Supreme Court let it?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1682974375.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0065789473684248%2C0%2C99.986842105263%2C100&w=2400)
Probably.
![The Supreme Court will decide if the government can ban transgender health care](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25435560/1175341681.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.032825322392%2C0%2C71.934349355217%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court will decide if the government can ban transgender health care](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25435560/1175341681.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.6614515428075%2C100%2C92.677096914385&w=2400)
Given the Court’s Republican supermajority, this case is unlikely to end well for trans people.
![What two years without Roe looks like, in 8 charts](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/FactsOnTheGround_Final_01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
![The Supreme Court refuses to accept blame for its worst guns decision](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158007684.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663667446464%2C0%2C66.672665107072%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court refuses to accept blame for its worst guns decision](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158007684.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0044984255510556%2C100%2C99.991003148898&w=2400)
US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices’ own incompetence.
![The Supreme Court’s new tax decision is great news for billionaires](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158243807.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.65%2C0%2C66.7%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s new tax decision is great news for billionaires](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158243807.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.02498750624688%2C100%2C99.950024987506&w=2400)
Most of the justices voted not to blow up the US tax code, but the opinion has bad news for progressive proponents of wealth taxes.
![What can Democrats actually do about Thomas’s and Alito’s corruption?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1857877600_a4b668.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.670758654554%2C0%2C66.658482690891%2C100&w=2400)
![What can Democrats actually do about Thomas’s and Alito’s corruption?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1857877600_a4b668.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0061379818315714%2C0%2C99.987724036337%2C100&w=2400)
Nothing, unless they win the election.
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![The Supreme Court just effectively legalized machine guns](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-857945122.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=9.0392461628133%2C0%2C81.921507674373%2C100&w=2400)
On a party line vote, the Court legalized “bump stocks,” which convert semiautomatic guns into fully automatic ones.
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The decision is unanimous, but it leaves open two routes Republicans could take to pull mifepristone from the market.
![Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-466730692.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-466730692.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
I am begging the justices to learn from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s historic mistake.
![Trump wants the Supreme Court to toss out his conviction. Will they?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1094227856.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Trump wants the Supreme Court to toss out his conviction. Will they?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1094227856.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
It’s hard to see how they’d do it legally, but this Court has a history of reading the law creatively.
![The NRA just won a big Supreme Court victory. Good.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1251933461.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.67%2C0%2C66.66%2C100&w=2400)
![The NRA just won a big Supreme Court victory. Good.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1251933461.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0050000000000026%2C0%2C99.99%2C100&w=2400)
Even truly repulsive speakers have First Amendment rights.