Why Is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden?

Expert spooked after noticing massive change with John Roberts in the last month

A prominent election law expert noticed something major shifted with Chief Justice John Roberts last month, and he can't find a reassuring explanation for it.Writing in Slate, University of California, Irvine law professor Richard Hasen, one of the country's leading voting rights scholars, says Robe...

The Alabama Redistricting Fight Is Exposing the Supreme Court as a Farce

On Monday evening, the Republican majority on the Supreme Court issued yet another order tilting elections in favor of Republicans—and against Black voters. Allen v. Caster reinstates a congressional district map that Alabama Republicans adopted in 2023, and that a federal court blocked as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.  Doing so plunges the 2026 midterms deeper into undemocratic chaos. Alabama’s primary elections are already underway. …

Why Is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden?

Over his two decades on the Supreme Court, United States Chief Justice John Roberts had consistently played the long game.