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Samuel Alito

How Did Samuel Alito Become This Angry?

Peter S. Canellos

April 10, 2026

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I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way

Alexandra Petri

April 1, 2026

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The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books

Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

August 20, 2025

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The Birthright-Citizenship Case Isn’t Really About Birthright Citizenship

Nicholas Bagley

May 16, 2025

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The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

April 24, 2025

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The Supreme Court Foreign-Aid Ruling Is a Bad Sign for Trump

Stephen I. Vladeck

March 5, 2025

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Why Trump Thanked John Roberts

March 5, 2025

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America Needs a Leader, Not a Salesman

January 2025 Issue

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The Judges Who Serve at Trump’s Pleasure

October 2024 Issue

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A Field Guide to the Flags of the Far Right

September 2024 Issue

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Why Was Alito Flying the Flag Upside Down After January 6?

May 17, 2024

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The Supreme Court Justices Are Just Like Anyone Else

Adriane Fugh-Berman

September 1, 2023

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The New Jane Crow

Michele Goodwin

May 11, 2022

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Why Justice Alito’s Draft Opinion in Dobbs Doesn’t Threaten Gay Marriage

May 6, 2022

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What Alito Got Right

May 4, 2022

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Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century

May 3, 2022

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Conservative Justices Suddenly Discover Limits to Religious Liberty

November 12, 2021

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By Attacking Me, Justice Alito Proved My Point

October 12, 2021

Justice Samuel Alito