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A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army

It’s hard to think of a more dramatic question than the issue before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois.  President Donald Trump wants to use...

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How the Supreme Court placed ICE above the law

By now, you’ve probably seen some of the videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as other federal law enforcement agencies,...

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It sure looks like the Voting Rights Act is doomed

Two things were obvious at Wednesday morning’s Supreme Court argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a case asking the Court to abolish longstanding...

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The uncomfortable problem with America’s greatest civil rights law

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is among the most successful laws in US history. And it is one of the most morally righteous things the United States of...

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The Supreme Court fights over whether medical expertise actually exists

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court broke from its increasingly common practice of deciding important cases without holding an oral argument or even...

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The Supreme Court fight over whether gay and trans people can be “cured,” explained

Are therapists protected by the First Amendment during talk therapy sessions with their clients? And are these free speech protections so robust that...

02.10.2025 10

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The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down an order that could completely upend the balance of power between Congress and President Donald Trump. The...

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One mystery, and two looming disasters, in the next Supreme Court term

Three issues dominate the Supreme Court term that begins next week, based on the cases the justices have agreed to hear so far. Realistically,...

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Comey’s indictment is a warning to the Supreme Court justices

About two decades ago, Justice Antonin Scalia went on a duck hunting trip with then-Vice President Dick Cheney. This trip became an issue because the...

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Trump’s prosecution of a Democratic lawmaker is a test run for authoritarian rule

On Thursday night, the Justice Department revealed an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, that lays out vague allegations that Comey...

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Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy

In a trio of cases, two currently pending before the Supreme Court and one that is likely to land on the justices’ doorstep as soon as Tuesday,...

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The Supreme Court is about to decide one of the biggest economic policy cases ever

A long-simmering showdown over whether President Donald Trump may seize control over the Federal Reserve appears to be entering its endgame. It is...

16.09.2025 10

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The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team

Last month, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dropped an inflammatory allegation on most of her colleagues.  On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down...

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Trump’s lawyers just inadvertently admitted that his tariffs are illegal

The Trump administration formally asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday evening to decide whether President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariff...

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Trump just did the one thing the Supreme Court said he can’t do

The six Republican justices have largely behaved as lickspittles to the leader of their political party. These are, after all, the same GOP political...

26.08.2025 6

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The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants

Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration’s decision to cancel numerous...

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A federal court took 2 years to figure out that gay people have First Amendment rights

Spectrum WT v. Wendler is one of the easiest First Amendment cases the federal courts heard this year — or in any other year. The question is...

19.08.2025 3

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Trump’s immigration raids are now before the Supreme Court

Last month, a federal judge in Los Angeles handed down a temporary order placing some restrictions on the Trump administration’s immigration...

15.08.2025 5

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Justice Kavanaugh just revealed an unfortunate truth about the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court handed down a very brief order on Thursday, which allows a Mississippi law restricting children’s access to social media to remain...

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There’s a big, important limit on Trump’s power to seize control of DC’s police

On Monday, President Donald Trump released an executive order invoking a rarely used federal law that allows him to temporarily seize control over...

12.08.2025 6

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There’s only one type of American who still trusts the Supreme Court

A new Gallup poll finds public approval of the Supreme Court falling below 40 percent for the first time in the poll’s history. The poll aligns with...

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A new Supreme Court case asks whether children still have First Amendment rights

Let’s give credit where it is due. The current Supreme Court has a decent record on free speech issues.  There have been some worrisome moves, such...

06.08.2025 3

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The Supreme Court just revealed its plan to make gerrymandering even worse

One of the biggest mysteries that has emerged from the Trump-era Supreme Court is the 2023 decision in Allen v. Milligan.  In Milligan, two of the...

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Brett Kavanaugh says he doesn’t owe the public an explanation

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Supreme Court’s recent practice of handing victories to President Donald Trump without explaining those...

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Trump’s new plan for retribution against Democrats, explained

On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump called for Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to eliminate what Trump called the “‘Blue...

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3 Supreme Court justices just said they’re fine with race discrimination in elections

Last month, two Republican federal appeals court judges effectively abolished the law banning  race discrimination in elections in seven states. On...

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The absurd fight over Trump’s MAGA prosecutor in New Jersey, explained

About four months ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Alina Habba, one of Trump’s personal lawyers, as the top federal prosecutor in New...

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The lawsuit seeking to kill Trump’s tariffs is back

Three very important tariff-related stories loom over the US economy this month. The first is that, after a few weeks of relative quiet, President...

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The conservative case against Trump’s worst judicial nominee

Emil Bove is one of President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense lawyers. He’s now a senior Justice Department official — and he’s widely...

22.07.2025 4

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A new Supreme Court case is an existential threat to the Voting Rights Act

In mid-May, two Republicans on a federal appeals court declared that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the landmark law that a Senate report once...

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The Supreme Court just handed Trump his biggest victory of his second term

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may fire more than half of the Department of Education’s workforce — mass...

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What the Supreme Court did to America in 2025

There are two big winners in the Supreme Court’s most recent term. One is social and religious conservatives.  In the last two days of its term,...

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The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision

The Supreme Court upheld a Texas anti-pornography law on Friday that is nearly identical to a federal law it struck down more than two decades...

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The Supreme Court just imposed a “Don’t Say Gay” regime on every public school in America

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that parents with religious objections to books with LGBTQ characters must be allowed to opt their children out of...

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The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision isn’t as devastating as you think

On Friday, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision in Trump v. CASA, a case challenging President Donald Trump’s attempt to strip many...

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The Supreme Court’s disastrous new abortion decision, explained

Federal law says that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” from a state Medicaid program may obtain that care “from any institution,...

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How the Supreme Court paved the way for ICE’s lawlessness

Last week, federal agents arrested Brad Lander, a Democrat running for mayor of New York City and the city’s incumbent comptroller, after Lander...

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The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process

In a short, one-paragraph order, the Republican justices ruled on Monday evening that President Donald Trump may effectively nullify a federal law and...

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The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained

It was obvious, if you listened to the Supreme Court’s oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti last December, that the Court would vote — most...

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The enormous stakes in a new Supreme Court case about Trump’s mass firings

In late May, a federal court handed down an order pausing President Donald Trump’s plans to fire a simply astonishing amount of federal workers. As...

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Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture

Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in...

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Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order permitting the Department of Government Efficiency, the enigmatic White House entity that...

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Why the Supreme Court just handed a big victory to gun manufacturers

The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion on Thursday that shuts down a lawsuit brought by the nation of Mexico against US gun companies.  In...

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The Supreme Court’s blessedly narrow decision about religion in the workplace, explained

In 2018, shortly before Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation shifted the Supreme Court drastically to the right, Democratic Justice Elena Kagan...

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The Supreme Court’s rare moment of unanimity against a DEI rule, explained

On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down a raft of mostly unanimous opinions, three of which reached a conservative outcome despite the fact that...

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A federal court’s novel proposal to rein in Trump’s power grab

Federal civil servants are supposed to enjoy robust protections against being fired or demoted for political reasons. But President Donald Trump has...

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The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Will Make It Easier to Build Stuff, Good and Bad

This story was originally published by Vox.com, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court handed down an...

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The Supreme Court just gave 500,000 immigrants some truly awful news

The Supreme Court handed down a very brief order on Friday, which effectively permits the Trump administration to strip half a million immigrants of...

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Trump just threw one of his most powerful allies under the bus

On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump publicly split with the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative lawyers’ group that he relied on...

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The Supreme Court wants to make it easier to build

The Supreme Court handed down an opinion on Thursday that reads like it was written by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, the authors of an influential...

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