Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern break down the arguments in Skrmetti, this week’s Supreme Court case about the Tennessee law that restricts gender-affirming care for transgender minors. They especially note the near-silence of one Justice Neil Gorsuch, who previously penned the landmark 2020 majority opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County. Dahlia and Mark preview next week’s big environmental case, …
Get your tickets for Amicus Live in Washington DC here. This week they’re trying to understand the mechanisms of what Professor Saul Cornell calls “the originalism industrial complex” and how those mechanisms plug into the highest court in the land. They’re also asking how and why liberals failed to find an effective answer to originalism, even as the various “originalist” …
