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Virginia Democrats’ irresponsible new plan to save their gerrymander

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

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Ian Millhiser

The glaring error in the Virginia Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

08.05.2026 9

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Ian Millhiser

Is Trump’s Justice Department trying to discredit itself?

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

07.05.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

06.05.2026 8

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

06.05.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court gets thrown back into the abortion wars

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

04.05.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

What the Supreme Court still has left to decide this term

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

04.05.2026 9

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Ian Millhiser

The Voting Rights Act is all but dead. Prepare for maximum gerrymandering.

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

29.04.2026 10

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The Supreme Court seems a bit nervous about letting the police track you with your phone

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

27.04.2026 10

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The wide-ranging fallout from the Supreme Court’s new terrorism decision, explained

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

22.04.2026 20

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The Supreme Court will decide if migrants can be sent back to war zones

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

22.04.2026 30

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The Supreme Court will decide when the police can use your phone to track you

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

20.04.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court could legalize moonshine, and ruin everything else

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

14.04.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

It should be much easier to remove the president from office

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

08.04.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

Democrats just locked down control of one of the most important courts in America

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08.04.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous

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02.04.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

Even this Supreme Court seems unwilling to end birthright citizenship

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01.04.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

Why an 8-1 Supreme Court just ruled in favor of anti-LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy”

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

31.03.2026 10

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The sneaky way Trump’s lawyers are supercharging ICE

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27.03.2026 10

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The Supreme Court is scared it’s going to break the internet

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26.03.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court

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24.03.2026 40

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The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots

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23.03.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court case attempting to sabotage voting by mail, explained

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

16.03.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law

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04.03.2026 60

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MAGA’s top lawyer just gave a sitting GOP senator the biggest scare of his career

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

04.03.2026 60

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The MAGA court decision that just supercharged ICE

Two judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a court dominated by MAGA Republicans, just handed the Trump administration...

10.02.2026 70

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Why a Republican Supreme Court just handed a victory to Democrats

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that California’s newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give...

06.02.2026 40

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Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis has broken the Justice Department

“I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” a lawyer representing Donald Trump’s government told a...

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Republicans are normalizing the one reform they should fear most

Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed legislation over the weekend that will add two seats to his state’s supreme court — seats that...

03.02.2026 20

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The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander

Last month, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority reinstated Texas’s Republican gerrymander after a lower federal court struck it down. The...

28.01.2026 10

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How long can ICE keep ignoring federal courts?

The chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, just issued a remarkable...

27.01.2026 10

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The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students

The Supreme Court is currently considering whether the Constitution requires public schools to out transgender students to their parents, even when...

26.01.2026 80

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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man?

The video of the latest killing in Minneapolis is truly horrific. In it, about half a dozen men in military garb, who appear to be federal immigration...

25.01.2026 20

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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man?

The video of the latest killing in Minneapolis is truly horrific. In it, about half a dozen men in military garb, who appear to be federal immigration...

24.01.2026 10

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The Supreme Court is likely to hand Trump a rare loss on the Federal Reserve

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority ordinarily believe that President Donald Trump is allowed to fire virtually anyone who works for a federal...

22.01.2026 10

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The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive principles can both be true at...

21.01.2026 60

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The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights

There was never much reason to hope that the Supreme Court, which heard two cases on Tuesday asking whether transgender women have a right to play...

14.01.2026 10

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The Supreme Court is about to confront its most embarrassing decision

Judges rarely complain openly about the Supreme Court, for the same reason that most people do not publicly chastise their bosses. Attacking your boss...

13.01.2026 60

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Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week

On Sunday evening, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell posted an unusual video message to the nation, revealing that the Trump administration opened a...

13.01.2026 10

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The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible

On Sunday evening, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell revealed that the Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into him, nominally...

13.01.2026 20

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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal immigration officer who just killed a woman?

A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents...

08.01.2026 70

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Trump’s revenge campaign is now putting the entire Justice Department at risk

A Trump-appointed judge in Richmond, Virginia issued an unusual order on Tuesday that threatens one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile...

08.01.2026 60

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The Supreme Court confronts the trans rights movement’s toughest legal battle

Let’s be honest. The question of whether transgender athletes have a right to play school-sponsored sports was always the toughest legal issue...

07.01.2026 20

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Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare

The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that abortion must remain legal in that state, despite a 2023 law seeking to ban it. The case is known as...

07.01.2026 30

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The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss

The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a...

24.12.2025 70

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The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court for much of the last several decades has been a fairly technocratic body.  The Court, to be sure, has handed down its share of...

23.12.2025 20

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The Supreme Court sounds surprisingly open to a case against a death sentence

From the moment the Republican Party gained a 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court, in late 2020, the Court has often acted as if it is going down a...

10.12.2025 20

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How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself

If you’ve followed the Supreme Court’s recent presidential power cases, you know there’s no mystery surrounding the Court’s eventual decision...

09.12.2025 30

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The Supreme Court takes up the most unconstitutional thing Trump has done

Last January, when Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour became the first federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s attack on birthright...

06.12.2025 10

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The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable

The Supreme Court reinstated a Texas gerrymander that is expected to give Republicans five additional seats in the US House on Thursday evening, after...

05.12.2025 20

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