Ian Millhiser Profile and Activity

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.

Great leaders, and great nations, need role models like Jean-Luc Picard.

Colorado’s latest attempt to protect same-sex couples from discrimination is almost certainly doomed in this Court.

Trump’s lawyers want to block Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s victory in an election that is more than a week away.

What kind of redistricting reforms could actually survive contact with the Roberts Court?

In its zeal to limit transgender rights, the Court could endanger thousands of incarcerated Americans.

The case highlights everything that’s wrong with the Supreme Court’s shadow docket.

The Republican justice’s new book has convinced many of his political allies that he’s not entirely on the level.

They just can’t come up with a legal argument that would allow them to do so.

Trump’s lower court judges won’t even listen to the Supreme Court when it tells them “no.”

What on Earth is the “structure of the Constitution”?