The lawsuit seeking to kick Elon Musk out of government, explained

On Thursday, a group of current or former workers at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the foreign aid agency that the Trump...

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What does it mean to be in a “constitutional crisis”?

We’re less than two months into the second Trump administration, but one thing is clear: President Donald Trump would very much like to be unbound...

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How to make sense of all the court orders against Donald Trump

As of this writing, there are at least 45 lawsuits pending against President Donald Trump and his subordinates. They range from challenges to...

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Don’t expect the courts to save us from Donald Trump

We seem to be in the middle of 16 constitutional crises at once. President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to kill an entire provision of the...

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The legal theory that would make Trump the most powerful president in US history

President Donald Trump recently attempted to fire Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its former chair. This...

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Brett Kavanaugh has very bad news for Donald Trump

On Friday afternoon, a federal judge in Rhode Island temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to halt a simply enormous amount of...

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The one big question looming over Trump’s power grabs

Much of what Donald Trump has done in his first eight days back in the White House is legally unjustifiable. What’s uncertain is whether the Supreme...

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A new Supreme Court case would force the government to create religious public schools

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases that are likely to revolutionize the relationship between church and state, at least...

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The single most unconstitutional thing Trump did yesterday, explained

On Monday, his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a wave of executive orders. Some are ridiculous, such as an order purporting...

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Biden’s last-minute preemptive pardons, explained

Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. On Monday, just hours before leaving office, President Joe Biden announced...

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The Supreme Court’s decision upholding the TikTok ban, explained

On Friday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law that effectively bans the social media app TikTok in the United States, unless the...

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The Supreme Court seems eager to curb First Amendment protections for porn

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard the first major First Amendment case involving pornography — or, for that matter, sexual speech of any kind...

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A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it harder to get screened for cancer

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear Becerra v. Braidwood Management, the latest in a long line of lawsuits seeking to undermine...

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The Supreme Court doesn’t seem likely to save TikTok

On Friday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that will decide if the popular social media app TikTok can still exist in the United...

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The Supreme Court hands Trump a loss in his bid for legal immunity

By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday...

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Trump asks the Supreme Court to place him even further above the law

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to halt the criminal proceeding against him in New York state court. Trump was...

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Biden’s DOJ just asked the Supreme Court to do a huge favor for Donald Trump

In what is likely to be one of her final actions as the federal government’s top Supreme Court litigator, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar...

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TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case

Imagine that the government tried to force Jeff Bezos, the Amazon billionaire and owner of the Washington Post, to sell that newspaper due to...

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The huge stakes in a new Supreme Court case about pornography

If you’ve studied First Amendment law, it’s impossible not to experience déjà vu while reading the briefs in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a...

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The long decline of the American death penalty, explained

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates on Monday, meaning that 37 men who were slated to be executed...

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The Supreme Court’s new abortion case should be an easy win for Planned Parenthood

Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which the Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear, is not a difficult case. The question in...

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