On July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered one of the most important decisions in American political history. In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the justices ordered President Richard Nixon to surrender secret White House tape recordings that prosecutors believed contained key evidence in the Watergate investigation. The decision reinforced the principle
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Idaho and West Virginia schools can continue to enforce bans on transgender athletes playing on girls’ and women’s teams. It is the latest development in a political and legal attack on trans people, and trans youth in particular, that has increased in recent years. Following that decision,
During this tenure, the US Supreme Court issued decisions on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration and birthright citizenship, reshaping the lives of millions of people. Kai Wright talks with The Nation’s justice correspondent Eli Mistel about how the court got all its powers in the first place, and why Mistel thinks court reforms