The Supreme Court’s Most Partisan Decisions Are Flying Under the Radar

Like clockwork, each June brings the Supreme Court back to the forefront of America’s culture wars, as the justices issue major new opinions that are equal parts significant and divisive—precipitating a flood of headlines, popular opinion pieces, and longer-form academic responses. This term attracted a flurry of coverage of the court’s decisions on abortion, immigration, guns, LGBT discrimination, religion, the president’s financial records, and the separation of powers.

But after the fanfare subsided, the justices have spent the first month of their summer recess handing out an unusually large and...