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Conservatives may control the Supreme Court until the 2050s

Charles Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec - December 12, 2021

Overturning Roe v. Wade may just be the beginning, our research suggests.

It took conservatives 50 years to get a reliable majority on the Supreme Court. Here are 3 reasons why.

Brandon Bartels - June 29, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/segments/what-justice-kennedys-retirement-means-for-the-supreme-court/2018/06/27/deb195fe-7a35-11e8-ac4e-421ef7165923_video.html Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, announced Wednesday, will give President

Trump’s values are abhorrent to the Federalist Society of conservative lawyers. That doesn’t stop them from helping him.

Henry Farrell - May 17, 2017

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The Supreme Court, not just three female justices, spoke loudly on women’s reproductive rights

Laura Moyer - June 29, 2016

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When was the last Supreme Court nomination in which stakes were this high? Maybe never.

Brandon Bartels - February 25, 2016

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Why are the deaths of sitting Supreme Court justices so rare?

Scott Boddery - February 18, 2016

[caption id="attachment_35811" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Justice Antonin Scalia in 2005. (J.

Waiting for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire? Keep waiting.

L.J. Zigerell - May 19, 2014

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Revisiting the AUMF

Andrew Rudalevige - May 16, 2013

During the April 2004 oral arguments in the Hamdi v

The Ideologies of Supreme Court Justices and Presidents

John Sides - April 13, 2010

In an earlier graph, I mapped the ideological "ideal points"

Strategic thinking on the Court: The decision to retire

- June 4, 2009

On May 1, 2009, Justice David Souter announced his intention