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Madeleine Carlisle
Madeleine Carlisle is a reporter for TIME in New York City
Recent Articles
Judge Blocks Biden's Effort to End Title 42
Title 42 will now likely remain in place for the foreseeable future
By Jasmine Aguilera and Madeleine Carlisle
May 20, 2022
Texas Trans Kids' Families Fear Child Abuse Investigations
"I’m just waiting for someone to knock on the door."
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 19, 2022
Inside the Right-Wing Movement to Ban Trans Youth From Sports
In the spring of 2020, Idaho became the first state in the United States to ban transgender girls and women from participating in women's sports. Two years later, fifteen states have enacted similar laws. Trans...
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 16, 2022
Supreme Court Now Subject to New Ethics Rules
Justices must now follow the same financial disclosure rules as members of Congress
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 13, 2022
New Survey Finds Increasing Reports of Suicidal Thoughts Among LGBTQ Youth in the U.S.
A new study by the LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit The Trevor Project found that over the past three years, the rates of suicidal thoughts have trended upward among LGBTQ youth in America. The survey, published...
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 4, 2022
Inside the Debate Over South Carolina's Use of Firing Squads
On March 18, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced that the $53,600 renovation of its death chamber was complete. For prisoners on death row who choose to face the firing squad, the state installed...
By Madeleine Carlisle
April 26, 2022
Remain in Mexico Battle Shows Flawed U.S. Immigration Policy
On April 26, the Biden Administration will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that it has the authority to end a controversial Trump-era policy that requires migrants seeking asylum in the United States to wait...
By Madeleine Carlisle
April 25, 2022
Alabama's Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Could Have National Consequences
Katie doesn’t want to leave Alabama. The 15 year old has spent her entire life in the state. It’s home. But soon she may have to. On April 8, Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed a...
By Madeleine Carlisle
April 15, 2022
History-Making Trans State Legislator's Plan for Protecting LGBTQ Kids
Settling down with a chai latte in a coffee shop in Manassas, Virginia, Danica Roem acknowledges that some of the rumors about her are true. She did once do a keg stand on camera while...
By Madeleine Carlisle / Manassas, Va.
April 13, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed to the Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, becoming the first Black woman Justice in the nation’s history. Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court by a vote of 53-47 with bipartisan...
By Madeleine Carlisle
April 7, 2022
‘Don't Say Gay' Lawsuit Plaintiffs Speak Out
Lourdes Casares and Kimberly Feinberg have been together for over 17 years. After they wed in 2016 when same-sex marriage became legal in Florida, they thought they would be guaranteed all the “rights and privileges”...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 31, 2022
How the Biden Administration Contradicts Itself on Key Immigration Policies
It was a warm evening in August when Keren, a 34-year-old migrant woman from Honduras, noticed a seriously injured man running down the street in Nogales, Sonora, a city just across the U.S.-Mexico border from...
By Jasmine Aguilera and Madeleine Carlisle
March 28, 2022
Democrats Hope for Bipartisan Confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings were historic, grueling, and at times combative between Senators. Now, what a handful of Republicans make of her answers during more than 22 hours of questioning will determine...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 24, 2022
Justices Expand Prisoners' Religious Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row prisoner likely has the right to have his Baptist pastor touch and audibly pray over him as he is put to death. The state...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 24, 2022
What We Learned During Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Hearings
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s two days of questioning of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson were marked by tense exchanges between Senators, the airing of grievances over confirmations past, and inflammatory descriptions of gruesome child...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 23, 2022
Republicans Accuse Ketanji Brown Jackson of Being Weak on Crime
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s second day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings lasted more than 12 hours. But over the course of the marathon session, a central theme emerged: Republicans accused the D.C. Circuit Court judge of...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 22, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearings: Day One Recap
On day one of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Democrats and Republicans could agree on one thing: her historic nomination comes at a critical moment for the U.S. Supreme Court. In remark after...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 21, 2022
What Ketanji Brown Jackson May Be Asked at Hearings
On Monday, D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will sit before a panel of 22 Senators for what may be the most important job interview of her life. When President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 17, 2022
LGBTQ Ukrainians Flee to Countries Hostile to Their Rights
For Vitaly and his wife, it was the bright light that woke them up at 4:30 am on Feb. 24. Then came the crashes of the explosions, four in a row, shaking their home in...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 10, 2022
Florida Passed the "Don’t Say Gay" Bill. Here's What It Means
The Florida Senate passed the controversial so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Tuesday, sending the Republican-backed legislation banning LGBTQ instruction in primary schools to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk. The bill passed the Republican-controlled Senate 22-17,...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 8, 2022
As Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation Looms, Republicans Look to the Midterms and Beyond
In the days since President Joe Biden nominated D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the Republican response has been unusually muted. Most discussion surrounding the nominee has lacked partisan rancor and...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 4, 2022
Can You Sue A Federal Officer? SCOTUS May Soon Decide
Eight years ago, a U.S. Border Patrol agent got into a fight with a bed-and-breakfast owner in Blaine, Wash. Now, the facts of that fracas, as presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, may shape whether...
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 1, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson's Path to the Supreme Court Nomination
As she braced for graduation from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988, Ketanji Brown wrote in her high school yearbook that she wanted to be a judge. 34 years later, she walked into the...
By Madeleine Carlisle
February 25, 2022
Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS. What Happens Next?
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court Justice. In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman Supreme Court Justice. Now, Ketanji Brown Jackson is poised to become the first Black woman...
By Madeleine Carlisle and Abby Vesoulis
February 25, 2022
How Greg Abbott's Healthcare Rules Could Affect Trans Kids
When Lisa Stanton looked at her phone on Wednesday morning, she felt like she’d been “physically punched.” The day before, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a letter directing the state's Department of Family and...
By Madeleine Carlisle
February 24, 2022
Meet Joe Biden’s Top 3 Supreme Court Contenders
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger, and J. Michelle Childs
By Madeleine Carlisle
February 23, 2022
Pediatricians Who Serve Trans Youth Face Harassment
Pediatricians who serve trans youth faced a wave of increased harassment. Access to crucial medical care could ultimately be at stake.
By Madeleine Carlisle
February 16, 2022
What Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Could Mean for LGBTQ Kids
On Tuesday night, President Joe Biden took to Twitter to condemn a controversial bill that’s swiftly moving through the Florida legislature. The proposed law, often referred to by critics as “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, bans...
By Madeleine Carlisle
February 9, 2022
How Joe Biden Is Choosing a Supreme Court Nominee
With a freshly stoked fire roaring in the fireplace behind him, President Joe Biden welcomed into the Oval Office Tuesday two of the most powerful Senators charged with considering his pick for Supreme Court. “We’re...
By Madeleine Carlisle and Brian Bennett
February 2, 2022
Pressure Mounts for Biden to Nominate a Black Woman to the Court
Joe Biden’s summer is starting to look brighter. With widespread media reports that Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of the current term, the President may have an...
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 26, 2022
Minneapolis City Council President Andrea Jenkins Interview
Andrea Jenkins continues to make history. In 2017, with her election to Minneapolis’ city council, the transgender activist became the first Black openly trans woman ever elected to public office in the United States. Just...
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 25, 2022
Ted Cruz Supreme Court Case Could Change Campaign Finance
The year was 2018. Ariana Grande’s Sweetener topped the charts. Avengers: Infinity War smashed records. The U.S. midterm elections were in full swing, with Republicans on the way to holding the Senate and Democrats poised...
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 18, 2022
Kid of the Year Finalist Kai Shappley, 11, Takes on Lawmakers in Her Fight for Trans Rights
Kai Shappley didn’t feel scared when she sat before the Texas Senate committee in April 2021. Wearing a flowing yellow blouse, floral skirt and cowboy boots, the then-4th grader calmly introduced herself. “I love ballet,...
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 12, 2022
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Immigrants Remain Detained
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases on Tuesday that could impact thousands of unauthorized immigrants detained in the United States. Unauthorized immigrants are often detained indefinitely in prison-like settings while their immigration cases...
By Jasmine Aguilera and Madeleine Carlisle
January 10, 2022
Jan. 6 Rioters Drew Attention to D.C. Jail's Long Crisis
A year after the attack, federal prosecutors have charged more than 725 people with crimes, many of them serving time in the D.C. jail
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 8, 2022
Ex-Students Say Their Religious School Targeted LGBTQ Kids
Two graduates of Bangor Christian say the school at the center of a Supreme Court case, Carson v Makin, discriminated against LGBTQ students
By Katie Reilly and Madeleine Carlisle
January 3, 2022
Anti-Trans Violence and Rhetoric Reached Record Highs Across America in 2021
2021 was the deadliest year for transgender and gender non-conforming people in the U.S. on record. At least 50 trans and gender non-conforming people were killed this year alone, per a report by LGBTQ advocacy...
By Madeleine Carlisle
December 30, 2021
The Risk Every Defendant Weighs, From Ghislaine Maxwell to Kim Potter
Several high-profile defendants have opted to testify in their own defense lately, with mixed results. There are several factors to consider before putting a defendant on the witness stand
By Melissa Chan and Madeleine Carlisle
December 20, 2021
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy for LGBTQ Youth Can Help Save Lives, Study Finds
The use of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is significantly related to lower rates of depression, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary youth, according to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent...
By Madeleine Carlisle
December 14, 2021
Elon Musk: 'My Career is Mars and Cars'
For Elon Musk, Monday evening was a family affair. Waving to his mother Maye Musk in the audience, and balancing his toddler X Æ A-Xii (pronounced “X”) on his knee, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO...
By Madeleine Carlisle
December 14, 2021
Inside President Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Commission
Some say bipartisanship in Washington is dead. But you wouldn’t know it listening to the final public meeting of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court on Dec. 7, during which all 34 commission members,...
By Madeleine Carlisle
December 10, 2021
SCOTUS Hears Major Religious Freedom Case on Maine Schools
Amy and David Carson were high school sweethearts. They met at Bangor Christian Schools, a private religious K-12 school in Bangor, Maine, when they were in their early teens. Their siblings attended the school. Family...
By Madeleine Carlisle and Katie Reilly
December 6, 2021
What To Know About the Contacts Book That Could Be Crucial to Ghislaine Maxwell's Trial
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell began on Monday, more than two years after the death of her alleged associate Jeffrey Epstein, with whom she has been charged with conspiring to sexually abuse minors. The trial...
By Madeleine Carlisle
November 29, 2021
The Supreme Court's Decision on the Mississippi-Tennessee Aquifer Conflict Will Change U.S. Water Wars
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee was stealing its groundwater in a decision that legal experts say could have major implications for future battles over water amid the worsening...
By Madeleine Carlisle
November 23, 2021
This Black Queer Author Is Fighting Against Book Bans
What knowledge is appropriate for children? What shouldn’t they be told? School boards across America have struggled to answer these questions this school year amid a wave of heightened scrutiny and politicized rhetoric over what...
By Madeleine Carlisle
November 18, 2021
SCOTUS to Decide What a Pastor Can Offer During an Execution
Dana Moore likes to get on the road by 3:30 am. It takes roughly five hours to drive from Corpus Christi to Livingston, Texas, and he tries to beat the morning traffic. He watches dawn...
By Madeleine Carlisle
November 4, 2021
Supreme Court Justices Appear Open to Expanding Gun Rights
The newly conservative court is considering a case that would overturn a New York state law that limits the carrying of concealed weapons outside of the home
By Melissa Chan and Madeleine Carlisle
November 3, 2021
Why The Supreme Court's Gun Case Matters So Much
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the biggest gun rights case in more than a decade, which could give new strength to the Second Amendment
By Melissa Chan and Madeleine Carlisle
November 2, 2021
Supreme Court Texas Abortion Law Case Could Open Floodgates
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined for the second time to immediately block Texas' six-week abortion ban, but said it will hear two separate challenges to the law from the Biden Administration and Texas...
By Abigail Abrams and Madeleine Carlisle
October 22, 2021
Lawsuit: Biden Administration Foster Program Rejected Woman for Being Gay
Kelly Easter wanted to help. Like many Americans, she watched the news in 2020 in dismay at the conditions awaiting unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Easter, a 47-year-old realtor, lives alone in her...
By Madeleine Carlisle
October 20, 2021
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