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One Judge Is About to Go Toe-to-Toe With Trump Over His Executive Order Spree

One Judge Is About to Go Toe-to-Toe With Trump Over His Executive Order Spree
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A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How All Judges Should Respond to Trump’s Lawless Rampage

A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How All Judges Should Respond to Trump’s Lawless Rampage
08.02.2025 3

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Elon Musk’s Assault on USAID Is Lethal, Vindictive, and Brazenly Unlawful

Elon Musk’s Assault on USAID Is Lethal, Vindictive, and Brazenly Unlawful
08.02.2025 5

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Elon Musk’s Power Grab Is Lawless, Dangerous, and—Yes—a Coup

Elon Musk’s Power Grab Is Lawless, Dangerous, and—Yes—a Coup
04.02.2025 3

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It’s Hard to Overstate the Brutal Impact of Trump’s Attack on Trans Americans

It’s Hard to Overstate the Brutal Impact of Trump’s Attack on Trans Americans
01.02.2025 20

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The D.C. Air Disaster Is a Flashing Warning Sign About DOGE

31.01.2025 3

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Trump Declares Open Season on Abortion Clinics

25.01.2025 10

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Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Defeat Is Even Bigger Than It Looks

24.01.2025 10

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Trump’s First Flurry of Executive Orders Are Plagued by a Surprising Problem

22.01.2025 60

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Biden’s Last-Minute Move on the Equal Rights Amendment Does Nothing

18.01.2025 5

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Aileen Cannon’s Final Gift to Trump

14.01.2025 3

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Why the Supreme Court Refused to Bail Out Trump This Time

11.01.2025 70

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Why the Supreme Court Is Poised to Let the TikTok Ban Stand

11.01.2025 4

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Donald Trump Had a Few Good Reasons to Get Samuel Alito on the Phone

09.01.2025 5

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Why We’re Talking About the Loophole That Could Give Trump a Third Term

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04.01.2025 9

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How Clarence Thomas Got Away With It

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04.01.2025 40

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Dear Jurisprudence: Why Don’t Voters Care About the Dang Courts?

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31.12.2024 5

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Dear Jurisprudence: Should Joe Biden Just Add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution?

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30.12.2024 5

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Dear Jurisprudence: Could Trump Really Run for a Third Term?

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28.12.2024 10

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A Landmark Victory in the Legal Fight Against Climate Change

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20.12.2024 40

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Why Manchin and Sinema’s Parting Gift to Trump Is So Brutal for the Rest Of Us

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14.12.2024 10

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What Christopher Wray’s Resignation Costs Us

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13.12.2024 5

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Brett Kavanaugh Is Using the Logic of Dobbs to Pursue a Dangerous New Agenda

Tweet Share Share Comment Wednesday’s oral arguments in the landmark civil rights case Skrmetti v. U.S. offered the Supreme Court an opportunity to...

05.12.2024 30

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Is the Law for Suckers, Now?

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03.12.2024 10

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We Know Who’s to Blame for Trump’s Evasion of Justice. It Isn’t Jack Smith.

Tweet Share Share Comment The six-page filing that special counsel Jack Smith submitted Monday is surely one of the strangest requests a federal...

26.11.2024 100

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The Disturbing Reason Senate Republicans Might Greenlight All of Trump’s Nominees

Tweet Share Share Comment Just days after he won reelection, Donald Trump began rolling out his Cabinet picks, the people who’ll run the machinery...

16.11.2024 20

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The One Reason a Second Trump Presidency Would Be So Much Worse

Tweet Share Share Comment The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump can, at times, feel oddly devoid of substance, with Harris’ policy goals...

04.11.2024 1

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Federal Judge Shoots Down Ron DeSantis’ War Against Free Speech

Tweet Share Share Comment Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, is using every conceivable tool at his disposal to maintain his state’s six-week...

18.10.2024 1

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The Supreme Court Takes a Nuclear Waste Case Almost Too Wild to Believe

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court took up a spate of new cases last week as the justices regrouped for a new term. Although the court is...

12.10.2024 3

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A North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Warns of a “Dark Day” for Voting Rights in Her State

Tweet Share Share Comment When the North Carolina Supreme Court suspended early voting in September to let Robert F. Kennedy remove his name from...

02.10.2024 2

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Marcellus Williams Was a Victim of the Supreme Court’s Worst Hypocrisy

Tweet Share Share Comment The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday. He was almost certainly innocent, and his own prosecutors,...

26.09.2024 50

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We Need to Have a Talk About Leonard Leo’s Version of Catholicism

Tweet Share Share Comment A new book investigates a secretive Catholic sect that appears to have an outsized influence on U.S. courts and the law....

24.09.2024 50

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We Helped John Roberts Construct His Image as a Centrist. We Were So Wrong.

Tweet Share Share Comment On Sunday, New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak published a blockbuster article about the conservative...

17.09.2024 70

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