From a Minnesota county that kept $25,000 it was not owed to a century of cases on what the Fifth Amendment makes a government pay for.
SCOTUSThe rule religious groups have spent 30 years trying to get the Supreme Court to drop is one that treats everyone the same. Four eras of free exercise cases, and what each one decided.
SCOTUSWho pays, who decides and who can sue: nine Supreme Court cases on American healthcare, from Roe to Medina.
Healthcare
Presidential eligibility sounds settled. The Supreme Court has spent its time on the edges: who is a citizen at birth, and who can enforce the clause that disqualifies a candidate.
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A nonpartisan Election Day guide to ten Supreme Court decisions that shape who votes and how, from Dred Scott to Brnovich, updated with the Court's 2025-26 voting cases.
Voting Rights
From a Maryland tax on a bank branch to the Affordable Care Act, ten Supreme Court cases on where federal power ends and state power begins.
Federal v. State
Eight sentences from Supreme Court opinions that are quoted far beyond their cases, each checked against the opinion's own text.
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From a Memphis doctor who wrote 4,000 morphine prescriptions at fifty cents each to a pregnant patient's urine test: how the Supreme Court has drawn the line between medicine and crime.
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