The Chaos of the Supreme Court's Last Term--and What May Be Coming This Time by Garrett Epps. With their new term, nine justices face roiling legal waters and the bench's profound dysfunction. A deep dive into an institution that is "not well." [_link]

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Why They Reign Supreme

A fresh and readable one-volume history of the Court explains how we got from Marbury to Dobbs.

Frederick Douglass told a civil rights meeting in 1883, "is the autocratic point in our national government. No monarch in Europe has a power more absolute over the laws, lives and liberties of his people, than that Court has over our laws, lives, and liberties."

'Sapere aude'