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A Rare Win at the Supreme Court for a Death-Row Prisoner

The Supreme Court took the unusual step on Thursday of dismissing a case that it had already heard, handing a rare win to a death-row prisoner and...

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Trump’s January 6 Slush Fund Is a Criminal Enterprise

The Trump administration set the stage for the largest heist in American history this week by creating an illegal fund of taxpayer dollars to...

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Making Sense of the Supreme Court’s Mifepristone Ruling

Next month marks the four-year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the landmark decision where the Supreme Court overturned...

18.05.2026 5

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Trump Offers U.S. Citizenship to 32 Million Venezuelans

President Donald Trump suggested earlier this week that Venezuela should be annexed by the United States. He reportedly told Fox News correspondent...

14.05.2026 5

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Trump Thinks the Supreme Court Works For Him

About a decade ago, I moved into an apartment in Washington, D.C., that seemed like a bargain. The unit was in good shape and in a nice location. The...

12.05.2026 8

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John Roberts Is Trying to Defend the Indefensible

Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have a problem on their hands. Americans have an increasingly low opinion of the Supreme Court. Thanks...

08.05.2026 8

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Southern Republicans Are Already Deleting Black Districts

Throughout the American South is an archipelago of majority-Black congressional districts that provide some measure of Black representation in...

07.05.2026 6

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A Journey Through Trump’s Bizarre Statue Garden of American Heroes

President Donald Trump is obsessed these days with reshaping Washington, D.C., in his own image. He demolished the White House’s East Wing and plans...

06.05.2026 20

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The Best Way to Fix the Supreme Court’s Attack on Voting Rights

The Supreme Court’s decision this week to destroy what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 compels us to consider structural reforms to the...

01.05.2026 10

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The Supreme Court Lands Its Fatal Blow on the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court achieved one of the principal goals of the conservative legal movement by destroying the last remaining pillar of Voting Rights Act...

30.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Quixotic Push to Denaturalize U.S. Citizens

Every few months, the Trump administration says that it will make a greater effort to denaturalize American citizens. Last week, The New York Times...

29.04.2026 9

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The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan

The United States did not always have a Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Grant founded it in 1870 to help suppress the Ku Klux Klan in the...

23.04.2026 8

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The Supreme Court’s Shadow-Docket Secrets Have Been Spilled

The New York Times on Saturday published a series of Supreme Court internal memos that amount, in hindsight, to a major milestone in the decline of...

21.04.2026 20

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Clarence Thomas Can’t Get American History Right

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the nation’s independence. Justice Clarence Thomas, the senior-most member of the Supreme Court, sought to...

17.04.2026 10

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Trump Has Become What He Most Despises: A Loser

The last two weeks have been disastrous for the Trump administration. In Europe, Vice President JD Vance made the extraordinary move of campaigning...

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How an Alito Retirement Could Allow Trump to Reshape the Supreme Court

Will there be a Supreme Court vacancy in 2026? The November midterms are inching closer—and with them, the slim but growing prospect of a Democratic...

09.04.2026 9

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Trump Is Rage Posting His Way Into Genocide Charges

President Donald Trump spent the Easter weekend issuing a belligerent stream of threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure. He set a deadline...

07.04.2026 9

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The Supreme Court Might Still Screw Up Birthright Citizenship

The Supreme Court appears likely to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship. At Wednesday’s oral...

03.04.2026 20

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The Justices Aren’t Buying Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship

The Supreme Court appears ready to reject Donald Trump’s war on birthright citizenship. During oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara on Wednesday, most...

01.04.2026 10

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How to Reclaim America From the Scammers and Frauds

America’s first Gilded Age is often remembered as a time of industrial growth and excessive corporate power, when economic power and basic resources...

01.04.2026 20

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Where Do Conservative Supreme Court Justices Get Their Information?

Thirteen years ago, Justice Antonin Scalia gave an unusually candid interview with New York magazine’s Jennifer Senior. (Candid by the standards of...

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Will the Supreme Court Make Bribery Even Easier?

If you want to see the dire state of American anti-corruption efforts, look no further than the Supreme Court’s docket. No fewer than three state...

24.03.2026 9

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There Will Be No Post-Presidential Peace For Donald Trump

Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term trying to signal his strength, his impunity, and his permanence in American public life. When...

19.03.2026 10

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Team USA’s Soulless Militarism Was Their Undoing in the WBC

This year’s World Baseball Classic was, by most metrics, a smashing success for the sport. Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in...

18.03.2026 10

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How a Bank Robbery Case Became SCOTUS’s Next Big Fourth Amendment Test

It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major Fourth Amendment case. That will change next month when the justices hear oral arguments...

16.03.2026 30

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The Supreme Court Has Another Tribal Sovereignty Test on Its Hands

Six years ago, the Supreme Court held that nearly half of the state of Oklahoma was still legally considered Indian country. State officials have gone...

11.03.2026 30

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How Congress Set the Stage for Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran is an illegal and unconstitutional war. Congress did not authorize military action against...

06.03.2026 10

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The Supreme Court Has Abandoned All Pretense

In the old days, it used to require actual work to show that the Supreme Court justices were driven by their personal beliefs instead of...

04.03.2026 10

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The Catholic Bishops Who Wrote a Scorching Brief Against Trump

Let us speak plainly about Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court’s upcoming case on birthright citizenship. Many of the high court’s cases are about...

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Clarence Thomas Has Lost the Plot

Justice Clarence Thomas’s preferred theory of constitutional interpretation is often said to be originalist, but it may be more accurately described...

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The Judges and Juries Saving the Republic From Trump

The Supreme Court has enabled many of the Trump administration’s worst abuses over the past 14 months, particularly when it comes to his mass...

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The Supreme Court Fractures While Striking Down Trump’s Tariff Policy

The Supreme Court delivered a crushing blow to President Donald Trump’s policy agenda on Friday, ruling that a Cold War-era law for economic...

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The Anti-Homelesness Plot Against the First Amendment

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The Second Amendment Failed Alex Pretti

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The Supreme Court Isn’t Joining Trump’s War on the Fed

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The Supreme Court Just Got Caught in Its Gun Rights Contradictions

21.01.2026 20

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Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion

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Trump Already Gave Us the Blueprint for Abolishing ICE

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The Supreme Court Is Skeptical of Trans Athletes’ Rights

14.01.2026 10

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Trump’s Foreign Policy Madness Will Haunt Us for Generations

09.01.2026 10

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This Could Be the Year the Supreme Court Pushes Back on Trump

07.01.2026 10

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The Department of Justice May Not Survive Pam Bondi

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The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification

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The Trump Judge Who Tried to Rewrite the Bill of Rights

18.12.2025 20

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For Once, the Supreme Court May Not Give Republicans What They Want

10.12.2025 10

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The Supreme Court Is Set to Pick Financial Predators Over the People

09.12.2025 10

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Costco Is Coming for Trump. It Wants Its Money Back.

03.12.2025 10

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Trump’s Federal Prosecutor Picks Keep Backfiring on Him

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A Federal Judge Melted Down in Texas’s Gerrymandering Wars

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Trump’s Case Against James Comey Is Crashing and Burning

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