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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...

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

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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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 20

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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 40

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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 30

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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 10

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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 3

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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 2

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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...

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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 10

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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 6

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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...

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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 50

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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 6

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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 10

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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 50

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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 40

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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 10

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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 10

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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 60

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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 9

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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The Supreme Court case that could redefine “cruel and unusual,” explained

Nearly a quarter century ago, in Atkins v. Virginia (2002), the Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to execute offenders with an...

04.12.2025 30

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Republicans ask the Supreme Court to gut one of the last limits on money in politics

There is a specter of inevitability hanging over much of the Supreme Court’s current term. It is unlikely that any legal argument could persuade the...

03.12.2025 30

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Republicans want the Supreme Court to save them from their own inept mistake

Last month, a federal court in Texas ruled that a Republican gerrymander, expected to give the GOP five extra seats in the US House, must be struck...

03.12.2025 30

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Congress is the Supreme Court’s favorite punching bag, and it’s about to get decked

The outcome in Trump v. Slaughter, which the Supreme Court will hear on Monday, December 8, could not be more preordained. Slaughter involves a...

01.12.2025 10

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The case against releasing the Epstein files

The Justice Department almost never discloses information it collected on a criminal suspect outside of a criminal judicial proceeding, and for very...

19.11.2025 10

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Trump’s Justice Department may have accidentally handed Democrats five House seats

In a decision that could potentially reshape the 2026 midterm elections and cement the Democratic Party’s future control of the US House, a federal...

19.11.2025 10

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The Supreme Court is about to rule on whether Trump can use troops against Americans

About a month ago, Trump v. Illinois looked like it was going to be one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions of the entire Trump era. The...

15.11.2025 7

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A Supreme Court case about dreadlocks could end up gutting Medicaid

It’s hard to imagine a more clear cut violation of a federal law than what happened to Damon Landor. Landor is Rastafarian and does not cut his hair...

11.11.2025 3

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The Supreme Court will decide whether to toss out thousands of ballots

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case claiming that, for many decades, states have...

11.11.2025 4

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The Supreme Court might actually stand up to Trump

The Supreme Court’s Wednesday morning argument on President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariffs went better for him than the 2025 elections, but...

05.11.2025 3

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The most horrifying religion case to hit the Supreme Court in years is also one of the hardest

Damon Landor suffered one of the most blatant and obvious violations of his religious liberty imaginable. Landor is Rastafarian and, as part of his...

05.11.2025 20

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Trump’s imperial presidency is Dick Cheney’s final legacy

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s final political act was also his most admirable. Warning that then-candidate Donald Trump “can never be...

04.11.2025 6

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The tariffs case is Trump’s ultimate loyalty test for the Supreme Court

As recently as one year ago, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority was determined to reduce executive power. Joe Biden, a Democrat, was in the...

30.10.2025 5

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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...

21.10.2025 5

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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,...

20.10.2025 10

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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...

15.10.2025 5

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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...

14.10.2025 9

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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...

07.10.2025 5

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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 7

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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...

01.10.2025 10

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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,...

29.09.2025 5

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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...

26.09.2025 4

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