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How Will the Supreme Court Respond to Trump’s Budget-Freeze Power Grab?

How Will the Supreme Court Respond to Trump’s Budget-Freeze Power Grab?
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Dahlia Lithwick

The Disturbing Through Line Between All Trump’s Immigration Orders

The Disturbing Through Line Between All Trump’s Immigration Orders
28.01.2025 10

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Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Process Exposes the Biggest Lie of Trump’s 2024 Campaign

Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Process Exposes the Biggest Lie of Trump’s 2024 Campaign
23.01.2025 2

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No, Elon Musk Did Not Give a “Roman Salute”

No, Elon Musk Did Not Give a “Roman Salute”
21.01.2025 2

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Kash Patel Has an Enemies List. He Will Soon Have the Resources to Act on It.

Kash Patel Has an Enemies List. He Will Soon Have the Resources to Act on It.
20.01.2025 10

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One Trump Nominee Has Mastered the Art of Pretending It’s All OK

One Trump Nominee Has Mastered the Art of Pretending It’s All OK
16.01.2025 20

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Sam Alito Failing To Recuse From This Trump Case Would Be a Historic Farce

Sam Alito Failing To Recuse From This Trump Case Would Be a Historic Farce
10.01.2025 6

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No, John Roberts, You Are Not a Civil Rights Hero

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07.01.2025 20

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Two Damning Investigations Are a Stark Reminder of What We Stand to Lose

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24.12.2024 50

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The Presumption of Innocence Has Nothing to Do With Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation

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12.12.2024 4

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We’ve Seen Kash Patel’s Enemies List. It’s Terrifying.

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10.12.2024 30

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This Administration Doesn’t Care About the Cool Girls

Tweet Share Share Comment GOP senators are already laying the groundwork with which to blow off the new, harrowing reporting from Jane Mayer in the...

03.12.2024 20

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Dobbs Was Just the Beginning. Now Trans Rights Are Being Tested at the Supreme Court.

Tweet Share Share Comment On Dec. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in what is likely to be the most important trans rights case in...

02.12.2024 20

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National Democrats Didn’t Run on the Courts in 2024. That Was a Mistake.

Tweet Share Share Comment As the clock ticks down on the lame-duck session, Senate Democrats struck a deal on confirming judges last week that left...

25.11.2024 5

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What Happens to Sexual Assault Survivors if Matt Gaetz Runs the DOJ

Tweet Share Share Comment Here we go again. If you’re experiencing alarming levels of déjà vu this week with the debate over Matt Gaetz’s...

21.11.2024 100

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The Rise of the Free Speech Bro

Tweet Share Share Comment As President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet takes shape, Trump has shown a preference for a very clear type: the free...

19.11.2024 30

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Why the Senate Will Absolutely Confirm Matt Gaetz

Tweet Share Share Comment We are now engaged in what we in the press like to call a spirited debate about the confirmation prospects of one Matt...

16.11.2024 70

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How to Protect Democracy Now

Tweet Share Share Comment If you’re experiencing a profound sense of dissonance between the level of alarm accorded the possibility of a second...

14.11.2024 3

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The Biggest Clue That the Supreme Court Has Lost Touch With Reality

Tweet Share Share Comment As the United States collectively holds its breath in awaiting the results of the 2024 election, the U.S. Supreme Court...

05.11.2024 3

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Women Vote. They Will Again in 2024.

Tweet Share Share Comment Of all the signs at all of the abortion protests and all of the women’s marches, the one that always walloped me in the...

05.11.2024 4

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How SCOTUS Is Using a Slippery Legal Principle to Help Republicans

Tweet Share Share Comment There is a lot of talk about the Purcell principle in legal circles around election time. To be sure, some of the people...

05.11.2024 6

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It’s the Trendiest Term in the Tech World. It Perfectly Explains What Trump Is Doing to America.

Tweet Share Share Comment Yes, that Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden last Sunday was an hourslong performance piece of flagrant misogyny...

30.10.2024 2

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This 1798 Law Is a Loaded Gun in Donald Trump’s Hands

Tweet Share Share Comment The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is the last of the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts to remain on the books, and it is...

28.10.2024 2

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The Newspapers Were Never Going to Save Us

Tweet Share Share Comment For years, the chief complaint leveled against the American legal system has been that it is simply too, too slow to keep...

26.10.2024 50

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The Josh Hawley Problem and Jan. 6, 2025

Tweet Share Share Comment There are very few sure things, two weeks away from Election Day. One near-certainty, though, is that this election will...

22.10.2024 8

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We Thought the Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Cases Couldn’t Get Worse. We Thought Wrong.

Tweet Share Share Comment Richard Glossip has been on death row for over 25 years. He has maintained his innocence in a murder-for-hire conviction...

17.10.2024 9

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Donald Dances as Democracy Devolves

Tweet Share Share Comment For anyone who has dedicated the better part of the past decade to trying to affix meaning to the words spoken by Donald...

16.10.2024 3

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John Roberts Knows He Lost the Public. Does He Care?

Tweet Share Share Comment You would be forgiven were you to find yourself suffering from some version of motion sickness when reading about Chief...

11.10.2024 20

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The Supreme Court Is Waiting Until After the Election to Do Its Next Damage

Tweet Share Share Comment The first Monday of October is the traditional start of the Supreme Court docket-harvest festival, when a handful of...

05.10.2024 5

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The Supreme Court Is Handling the Election Differently Than in 2020. Uh-Oh.

Tweet Share Share Comment In blockbuster reporting last week, the New York Times revealed behind-the-scenes conference details about how the...

24.09.2024 3

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Ron DeSantis’ “Voting Police” Are Targeting Abortion Rights Petitioners

Tweet Share Share Comment Abortion is on the ballot in 10 states this election. Direct democracy has provided an extraordinary avenue for...

17.09.2024 30

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Kamala Harris’ Face on Tuesday Was the Stuff of Legend

Tweet Share Share Comment During Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, critics almost...

12.09.2024 100

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The Most Satisfying Moment of the Harris-Trump Debate

Tweet Share Share Comment It was about as close to perfect as Kamala Harris has come in a debate, and it was as close to self-parody as Donald...

11.09.2024 2

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“Stop the Steal” 2.0 Is Here and It’s Scarily Sophisticated

Tweet Share Share Comment The legal battle over the outcome of the 2024 election has already started, and this time around, Republicans are not...

10.09.2024 4

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Democrats Have a Problem With Religion. One Man Is Helping Fix It.

Tweet Share Share Comment The Republican National Convention last month was teeming with God talk. Much of it was what we have come to expect from...

26.08.2024 3

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Kamala Harris Finally Showed What It Looks Like to Be a Candidate, Not a First

Tweet Share Share Comment In the end, it was just like watching her ride a bike. Or, better, drive a car, but drive a car … really well. Watching...

23.08.2024 4

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Why This Election Can’t Deliver What America Actually Wants on Abortion

Tweet Share Share Comment We’re witnessing two equal and opposite abortion policy reactions this summer, and they both carry considerable momentum....

14.08.2024 3

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What Neil Gorsuch Got Most Wrong in His Recent Publicity Tour

Tweet Share Share Comment Justice Neil Gorsuch is out with a new book this week, titled Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law . It is, per the...

07.08.2024 4

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Why the Kamala Harris Candidacy Changed Everything

Tweet Share Share Comment There has been a notable, undeniable, and massive change in the way Democrats are feeling these past couple of weeks,...

31.07.2024 3

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The Most Important Thing to Focus on to Reform the Courts

Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden made his pitch for court reform this week in the op-ed pages of the Washington Post. While a...

30.07.2024 3

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The Typical GOP “Jezebel” Playbook Is a Loser in 2024

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s been said a lot already—and it’s going to need to be said a lot more through November and potentially for the...

26.07.2024 100

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The U.S. Supreme Court Doesn’t Have to Be This Way. Just Look at Canada!

Tweet Share Share Comment It is easy to believe that there is only one way to imagine a Supreme Court, and also only one way for Supreme Court...

23.07.2024 20

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Are We Finally Letting Go of Our Learned-Helplessness Syndrome Around the Supreme Court?

Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday evening, news broke that the Biden administration is planning to support several proposals for structural...

18.07.2024 3

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John Roberts Just Delivered a Big Gift to Billionaires

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Alongside ...

18.07.2024 70

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Will Trump’s Florida Documents Case Relocate Itself to D.C.?

Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday morning, just before the Republican National Convention opened, Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed federal...

16.07.2024 20

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