Irin Carmon

New York

Senior Correspondent at New York Magazine

senior correspondent @nymag. Writing a book for @onesignalpub called Unbearable: Being Pregnant in America. [email protected]

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The Supreme Court's Cruel Alternative Reality for Trans People

1 week ago | nymag.com | Irin Carmon

It's a measure of how dire the situation is for trans people in America today that the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision on Wednesday in United States v. Skrmetti - upholding Tennessee's ban on transgender health care for minors - was being heralded as less-bad by the very attorneys who brought the challenge to the law.
Trump Might Have Figured Out How to Trap the Supreme Court

1 month ago | nymag.com | Irin Carmon

On paper, an oral argument in which not even Samuel Alito wants to argue for the meat of what Trump administration is trying to do, Amy Coney Barrett utters an incredulous Really, and Elena Kagan subjects the solicitor general to a furious line of questioning, followed by Neil Gorsuch saying Kagan asked his questions for him is one that is not going well for the government. Except it's not that simple.
Did Joy Taylor Play the Game?

2 months ago | thecut.com | Irin Carmon
How Much Will Amy Coney Barrett Actually Stand Up to Trump?

2 months ago | nymag.com | Irin Carmon

Few modern Supreme Court ascensions have felt as baldly predetermined, even scripted, as Amy Coney Barrett's. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was still alive, and would be for two more years, when Donald Trump started telling people he was "saving" Barrett, then just confirmed to her first judgeship, for Ginsburg's seat. He waited a whole week after Ginsburg's death in September 2020 to push through Barrett's nomination before the presidential election.
The Supreme Court Seems Poised to Rule Against Trans Minors

Dec 4, 2024 | nymag.com | Irin Carmon

There was a clarifying moment late in Wednesday's two-and-a-half-hour-long oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti, a history-making challenge to Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
The Trans-Rights Showdown Heading to the Supreme Court

Nov 26, 2024 | nymag.com | Irin Carmon

During one of our phone calls in mid-November, Chase Strangio mentions that it's officially Transgender Awareness Week. He isn't particularly feeling it. "I'm like, Oh my God, please less awareness, less visibility," he says.
The Deaths and Agonies of Trump's Abortion Bans

Nov 4, 2024 | nymag.com | Irin Carmon

Whatever happened, it's not their fault. The anti-abortion lawmakers and activists of America insist that their "pro-life" laws aren't responsible for the suffering that women have experienced in hospitals and clinics across the country in the 26 months since Roe v. Wade was overturned. And in refusing responsibility for this wave of physical and emotional agony, and even death, the anti-abortion movement is also trying to absolve Donald Trump of his role in this catastrophe.
Does She Actually Support Trump?

Oct 24, 2024 | thecut.com | Irin Carmon

Usha Vance at the Republican National Convention in July. Photo: Haiyun Jiang/Redux In the fall of 2018, during the convulsive, unformed days after Christine Blasey Ford went public to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, one report in particular rankled Usha Vance. She had clerked for then-Judge Kavanaugh only three years earlier, a role that was often a stepping stone to a clerkship on the Supreme Court, as it was for Usha.
What Is Usha Vance Thinking?

Oct 24, 2024 | flipboard.com | Irin Carmon

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'It's Really Hard to Hold On in This Reality'

Oct 7, 2024 | nymag.com | Irin Carmon

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, as rockets fell near her home in the southern city of Be'er Sheba, Israel, Shaked Haran, a 34-year-old attorney, went into her house's fallout shelter with her partner and two young children. She emerged to learn that ten of her family members had gone missing in This story is being republished on October 7, 2024. Hamas's attack on Kibbutz Be'eri, a small community near the Gaza border founded by her grandparents where an estimated 120 people were killed that day.