How do you explain the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in 2025? Increasingly, Ian Millhiser writes, there’s just one rule: Republicans always win.
It’s the same conclusion Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came to last month when she wrote that the Court is engaging in constitutional Calvinball — the eponymous game from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, where the rules are always changing.
Ian thoroughly examines the Court’s recent history to make his case; ultimately, he writes, “the crushing weight of all of these decisions put together should speak for itself.”
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—Seth Maxon, politics, policy, and ideas editor
