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Ian Millhiser
Senior Correspondent
Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. Before joining Vox, Ian was a columnist at ThinkProgress. Among other things, he clerked for Judge Eric L. Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and served as a Teach For America corps member in the Mississippi Delta. He received a BA in philosophy from Kenyon College and a JD, magna cum laude, from Duke University, where he served as senior note editor on the Duke Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He is the author of two books on the Supreme Court: Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted and The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America. Follow Ian on Twitter here.
Latest articles by Ian Millhiser
![The Supreme Incompetents](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1204098864.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.657142857143%2C0%2C66.685714285714%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Incompetents](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1204098864.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.014281633818911%2C100%2C99.971436732362&w=2400)
The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.
![The Supreme Court handed down a hugely important First Amendment case today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2149436408.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.875%2C0%2C70.25%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court handed down a hugely important First Amendment case today](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2149436408.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.5504151838671%2C100%2C94.899169632266&w=2400)
A few minutes before the Court held that Trump was allowed to do crimes, it did hand Republicans a meaningful loss.
![The Supreme Court’s disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1198669899.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=13.871282301316%2C0%2C72.257435397367%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1198669899.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.8686459739091%2C100%2C92.262708052182&w=2400)
The Court's Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
![Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2159699954.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669504512174%2C0%2C66.660990975651%2C100&w=2400)
![Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2159699954.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0042567682615342%2C0%2C99.991486463477%2C100&w=2400)
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
![The Supreme Court just made a massive power grab it will come to regret](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-696327606.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=13.2%2C0%2C73.6%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court just made a massive power grab it will come to regret](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-696327606.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C4.7101449275362%2C100%2C90.579710144928&w=2400)
Welcome to hell, SCOTUS.
![The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1198673347.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.736719478099%2C0%2C70.526561043802%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1198673347.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.7364827662152%2C100%2C94.52703446757&w=2400)
SEC v. Jarkesy could render much of the federal government unable to function.
![The Supreme Court’s new abortion decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158500442.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court’s new abortion decision, explained](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-2158500442.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The leaked decision is not a victory for abortion rights.
![The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1094199898.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=10.4875%2C0%2C79.025%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1094199898.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C7.8192555098598%2C100%2C84.36148898028&w=2400)
Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.
![The Supreme Court hands an embarrassing defeat to America’s Trumpiest court](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1246876796.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.669854628921%2C0%2C66.660290742158%2C100&w=2400)
![The Supreme Court hands an embarrassing defeat to America’s Trumpiest court](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1246876796.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0047819433817935%2C0%2C99.990436113236%2C100&w=2400)
No, MAGA judges don’t get to decide what the Biden administration is allowed to say.
![Louisiana wants the Ten Commandments in public schools. Will the Supreme Court let it?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1682974375.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.671052631579%2C0%2C66.657894736842%2C100&w=2400)
![Louisiana wants the Ten Commandments in public schools. Will the Supreme Court let it?](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gettyimages-1682974375.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0065789473684248%2C0%2C99.986842105263%2C100&w=2400)
Probably.