The latest in Supreme Court
![Alito says the Supreme Court’s fake ethics code allows him to be unethical](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1163818439.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.660129437145%2C0%2C66.679741125711%2C100&w=2400)
![Alito says the Supreme Court’s fake ethics code allows him to be unethical](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1163818439.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0098039215686256%2C100%2C99.980392156863&w=2400)
The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is worse than nothing — Alito just proved it.
![The Comstock Act, the long-dead law Trump could use to ban abortion, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1201704318_ff87f7.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=13.389216130494%2C0%2C73.221567739012%2C100&w=2400)
![The Comstock Act, the long-dead law Trump could use to ban abortion, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1201704318_ff87f7.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C4.4760726072607%2C100%2C91.047854785479&w=2400)
A defunct federal law is Republicans’ best hope of banning abortion throughout the United States.
![The Supreme Court’s new voting rights decision is a love letter to gerrymandering](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1241557418.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.655555555556%2C0%2C66.688888888889%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s new voting rights decision is a love letter to gerrymandering](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-1241557418.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.016661112962346%2C100%2C99.966677774075&w=2400)
Thanks to an opinion by Sam Alito, rigged maps now enjoy the Supreme Court’s unambiguous support.
![The Republican Party’s man inside the Supreme Court](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-511882600.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Republican Party’s man inside the Supreme Court](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/gettyimages-511882600.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Justice Samuel Alito brings no vision and no unique insights to his job — other than unrelenting loyalty to the GOP.
![The Supreme Court decides not to trigger a second Great Depression](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25451025/73523183.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.916666666667%2C0%2C64.166666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court decides not to trigger a second Great Depression](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25451025/73523183.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=1.875%2C0%2C96.25%2C100&w=2400)
Two justices dissent.
![The messy SCOTUS drama about Black voters in Louisiana, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25442328/1227675803.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.216666666667%2C0%2C67.566666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The messy SCOTUS drama about Black voters in Louisiana, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25442328/1227675803.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.6660088801184%2C100%2C98.667982239763&w=2400)
Multiple federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s illegal racial gerrymander.
![The 9 worst court decisions since Trump remade the federal judiciary](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25437174/1163818439.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.660129437145%2C0%2C66.679741125711%2C100&w=2400)
![The 9 worst court decisions since Trump remade the federal judiciary](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25437174/1163818439.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0098039215686256%2C100%2C99.980392156863&w=2400)
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
![The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427059/2059261051.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25427059/2059261051.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political.
![Donald Trump had a fantastic day in the Supreme Court today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25417897/1047780806.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.671428571429%2C0%2C66.657142857143%2C100&w=2400)
![Donald Trump had a fantastic day in the Supreme Court today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25417897/1047780806.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0071428571428598%2C0%2C99.985714285714%2C100&w=2400)
It’s unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they’ll just delay his trial so long that it doesn’t matter.
![How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25408761/1204094281.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25408761/1204094281.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The justices already effectively gave Trump what he wants in his Supreme Court immunity case.
![A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it much easier for criminals to buy guns](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)
![A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it much easier for criminals to buy guns](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 fight over “ghost guns” is back before the justices.
![The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25415940/1356616290.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25415940/1356616290.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
But it’s not yet clear they’ve settled on a rationale for doing so.
![The Supreme Court doesn’t seem eager to get involved with homelessness policy](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25412460/980993190.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.67%2C0%2C66.66%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court doesn’t seem eager to get involved with homelessness policy](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25412460/980993190.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0050000000000026%2C0%2C99.99%2C100&w=2400)
Grants Pass v. Johnson is probably going to end badly for homeless people, but it’s not yet clear how broad the Court’s decision will be.
![Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that mattered](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25405339/1094227856.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that mattered](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25405339/1094227856.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
This case is about delaying his trial, and the GOP-controlled Supreme Court has given him everything he could reasonably hope for and more.
![What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25407267/2044483710.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25407267/2044483710.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
This week, the justices will hear the biggest case on homelessness in decades.
![The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25372021/2037175706.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.936455884173%2C0%2C66.662541764633%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25372021/2037175706.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0030936765251823%2C0%2C99.99381264695%2C100&w=2400)
Grants Pass v. Johnson could make the entire criminal justice system far crueler. It also tests the limits of judicial power.
![January 6 insurrectionists had a great day in the Supreme Court today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25402861/1359578998.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![January 6 insurrectionists had a great day in the Supreme Court today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25402861/1359578998.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters.
![The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25396950/1250361629.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25396950/1250361629.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The Court mostly reinstates Idaho’s ban on transgender health care for children.
![The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25299164/545736040.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25299164/545736040.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.
![The Supreme Court will decide if states can ban lifesaving abortions](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25357678/2115237711.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669519082663%2C0%2C66.660961834674%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court will decide if states can ban lifesaving abortions](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25357678/2115237711.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0042786239945158%2C0%2C99.991442752011%2C100&w=2400)
A federal law requires hospitals to provide abortions when necessary to prevent serious health consequences. The justices could neutralize that law.
![Why Republican federal judges are fighting among themselves](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25365661/1464154286.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.674769081186%2C0%2C66.650461837628%2C100&w=2400)
![Why Republican federal judges are fighting among themselves](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25365661/1464154286.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.012153621779291%2C0%2C99.975692756441%2C100&w=2400)
Simmering tensions between traditionalist Republican judges and MAGA judges are starting to boil over.
![Even the Supreme Court seems sick of its abortion pills case](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25356102/2107845086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.651688278341%2C0%2C66.696623443317%2C100&w=2400)
![Even the Supreme Court seems sick of its abortion pills case](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25356102/2107845086.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.022457491177413%2C100%2C99.955085017645&w=2400)
The lawsuit challenging mifepristone should have never been heard by any court.
![The Supreme Court will weigh in on the January 6 insurrection. What could possibly go wrong?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23122205/GettyImages_1230455089.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.663577386469%2C0%2C66.672845227062%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court will weigh in on the January 6 insurrection. What could possibly go wrong?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23122205/GettyImages_1230455089.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.004633490872024%2C100%2C99.990733018256&w=2400)
The Court’s decision could potentially undermine over 300 January 6 prosecutions, including Trump’s.
![The Supreme Court’s abortion pills case, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25344427/1481952226.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s abortion pills case, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25344427/1481952226.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The stakes in the Supreme Court’s mifepristone case go way beyond abortion.
![The Supreme Court’s confusing new border decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25344629/1344281023.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.660312619138%2C0%2C66.679374761723%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s confusing new border decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25344629/1344281023.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0095292548122714%2C100%2C99.980941490375&w=2400)
It is hard to believe that Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually agrees with her own opinion.
![Brett Kavanaugh rides to the Biden administration’s defense in a big First Amendment case](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)
![Brett Kavanaugh rides to the Biden administration’s defense in a big First Amendment case](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 Supreme Court’s center right appears increasingly frustrated with the judiciary’s far right.
![The Supreme Court’s puzzling decision to allow the government to ban drag shows, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25336328/1550396177.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=15.816197004316%2C0%2C68.367605991368%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s puzzling decision to allow the government to ban drag shows, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25336328/1550396177.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C1.2439658373561%2C100%2C97.512068325288&w=2400)
This is a serious blow to the First Amendment and a victory for a notoriously anti-LGBTQ judge.
![Republicans will no longer get to handpick their judges when they sue Biden](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25332763/temp.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.46803900325%2C0%2C67.063921993499%2C100&w=2400)
![Republicans will no longer get to handpick their judges when they sue Biden](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25332763/temp.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.29617662897146%2C100%2C99.407646742057&w=2400)
The federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges.
![The Supreme Court may let Texas get away with a totally unconstitutional deportation law](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25330139/2059371103.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=20.46130952381%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court may let Texas get away with a totally unconstitutional deportation law](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25330139/2059371103.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Texas Republicans are trying to rewrite the Constitution — and this Supreme Court could let them.
![The NRA has a case before the Supreme Court that it absolutely should win](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4121036/GettyImages-80288328.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=18.1%2C0%2C63.8%2C100&w=2400)
![The NRA has a case before the Supreme Court that it absolutely should win](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4121036/GettyImages-80288328.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=2.15%2C0%2C95.7%2C100&w=2400)
It’s one of two cases asking whether the government is allowed to speak freely to private companies.
![Do Americans still have a right to privacy?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25308287/480488317.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Do Americans still have a right to privacy?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25308287/480488317.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
With courts coming for abortion and IVF, it’s hard not to wonder what the Supreme Court will go after next.
![The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25311280/1229490344.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=12.809523809524%2C0%2C74.380952380952%2C100&w=2400)
![The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25311280/1229490344.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C5.1856594110115%2C100%2C89.628681177977&w=2400)
No one is coming to save US democracy, except for ourselves.
![The Supreme Court just crushed any hope that Trump could be removed from the ballot](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25317428/1094227856.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
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This is the second major victory the Supreme Court handed Trump in less than one week.
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Say goodbye to the GOP leader, but not the all-powerful Supreme Court that is his legacy.
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So much for the rule of law.
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Most of the justices appeared uncomfortable with “bump stocks,” devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire automatically.
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The justices look likely to reinstate Texas and Florida laws that seize control of much of the internet — but not for long.
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Did Alabama’s Supreme Court just ban IVF treatments?
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In a dissenting opinion, Alito takes a potshot at Bush’s signature racial justice program.
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Garland v. Cargill asks whether gun makers can evade the ban on machine guns with a device called a bump stock.