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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment If you’re experiencing a profound sense of dissonance between the level of alarm accorded the possibility of a second...
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...
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...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment Yes, that Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden last Sunday was an hourslong performance piece of flagrant misogyny...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment You would be forgiven were you to find yourself suffering from some version of motion sickness when reading about Chief...
Tweet Share Share Comment The first Monday of October is the traditional start of the Supreme Court docket-harvest festival, when a handful of...
Tweet Share Share Comment In blockbuster reporting last week, the New York Times revealed behind-the-scenes conference details about how the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Abortion is on the ballot in 10 states this election. Direct democracy has provided an extraordinary avenue for...
Tweet Share Share Comment During Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, critics almost...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment The legal battle over the outcome of the 2024 election has already started, and this time around, Republicans are not...
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...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment We’re witnessing two equal and opposite abortion policy reactions this summer, and they both carry considerable momentum....
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment There has been a notable, undeniable, and massive change in the way Democrats are feeling these past couple of weeks,...
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...
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...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday evening, news broke that the Biden administration is planning to support several proposals for structural...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Alongside ...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday morning, just before the Republican National Convention opened, Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed federal...