When President Joe Biden took office, the Justice Department reversed position on a challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration had backed Texas’ effort to dismantle the law. The Supreme Court ultimately found that Texas couldn’t ...

What will the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, which Trump helped to build, have to say about Trump’s view that biding by the nation’s laws and its foundational document is optional?

Although the Supreme Court’s formal power comes from Article III of the U.S. Constitution, its real power comes from public support for the court as an institution. The court depends upon the elected branches for everything from its budget to its building to its calendar and its statutory authority to hear almost all of the cases that it decides.