Ian Millhiser

The fight over who will become the next president is unlikely to end on Election Day if Vice President Kamala Harris prevails in the upcoming election. We know this because of former President Donald Trump’s behavior after he lost the […]

On Thursday night, the Texas Supreme Court handed down an extraordinary order saving Robert Roberson from execution — but potentially not for very long. Roberson was convicted in 2003 of murdering his daughter on the theory that she died of

For more than a year, Joseph Clifton Smith, a man who says he is intellectually disabled, has sat on death row, waiting to find out if the Supreme Court will greenlight his execution. Smith’s case, known as Hamm v. Smith,

Over the course of its last few terms, the Supreme Court has effectively placed itself in charge of the executive branch. It’s given itself an extra-constitutional veto power over virtually any policy decision made by a federal agency. Even when

Glossip v. Oklahoma is currently before the Supreme Court — and it is one of the most muddled death penalty cases the Court has faced in a while. Exactly how the justices untangle it will decide whether a man lives

Few things are as chaotic as this Supreme Court’s gun cases. Just last June, the Court’s Republican majority legalized “bump stocks,” devices that effectively convert ordinary semi-automatic weapons into machine guns. The Court’s landmark Second Amendment decision in New York

My more perceptive readers may have noticed that I’ve started referring to the justices of the Supreme Court as “Republicans” and “Democrats,” breaking with the traditional journalistic norm of labeling the justices “conservative” or “liberal.” In the interest of transparency,

In 2004, Richard Glossip was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Since then, the case against him has completely fallen apart. The state of Oklahoma, which is currently holding Glossip on death row, commissioned two investigations looking into Glossip’s

On Tuesday, October 8, one day after the justices convene for a new Supreme Court term, the Court will hear a case that could open up a massive loophole in US gun laws. The plaintiffs in Garland v. VanDerStok ask

It’s hard not to feel a sense of dread as the Supreme Court justices return to Washington for their new term, which, by law, begins on the first Monday in October. Most of the men and women on the Court