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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 10

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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 8

New Republic

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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 10

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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...

25.03.2026 20

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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 5

New Republic

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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 6

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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 8

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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 20

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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 20

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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 8

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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...

03.03.2026 20

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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...

24.02.2026 40

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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...

23.02.2026 90

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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...

21.02.2026 70

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The Anti-Homelesness Plot Against the First Amendment

11.02.2026 7

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The Second Amendment Failed Alex Pretti

02.02.2026 10

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

22.01.2026 30

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The Supreme Court Just Got Caught in Its Gun Rights Contradictions

21.01.2026 10

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Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion

17.01.2026 10

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Trump Already Gave Us the Blueprint for Abolishing ICE

15.01.2026 20

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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 8

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The Department of Justice May Not Survive Pam Bondi

29.12.2025 20

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The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification

20.12.2025 80

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The Trump Judge Who Tried to Rewrite the Bill of Rights

18.12.2025 10

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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 9

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Trump’s Federal Prosecutor Picks Keep Backfiring on Him

02.12.2025 10

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A Federal Judge Melted Down in Texas’s Gerrymandering Wars

22.11.2025 8

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Trump’s Case Against James Comey Is Crashing and Burning

20.11.2025 10

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The American People Voted for Jeffrey Epstein

18.11.2025 20

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Neil Gorsuch’s Lonely Quest to Fix Indian Law

14.11.2025 10

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The Sports-Betting Crisis is the Supreme Court’s Fault

12.11.2025 10

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The Disturbing Prison Abuse Case Coming Before the Supreme Court

10.11.2025 8

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Trump’s Tariffs Might Have Gone Too Far Even for This Supreme Court

06.11.2025 10

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The Supreme Court Ruling That Could Upend Trump’s Presidency

04.11.2025 9

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The Law Professors Aiding Trump’s War on Birthright Citizenship

31.10.2025 10

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Trump’s Fury at the Ontario Ad is All About the Supreme Court

28.10.2025 8

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The Cases That Could Unleash Trump’s War on Blue Cities

27.10.2025 10

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Trump’s White House Ballroom Is the Perfect Symbol of His Presidency

22.10.2025 10

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The Gun Rights of Drug Users Are Up for Grabs at the Supreme Court

21.10.2025 10

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Trump’s Military Payroll Gambit Is a Baldly Illegal Seizure of Power

17.10.2025 10

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The Supreme Court’s War on the Voting Rights Act Is Almost Over

16.10.2025 10

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Has the Supreme Court Abandoned Originalism?

14.10.2025 10

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Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of a Failed English King

10.10.2025 10

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Is the Supreme Court Teeing Up a Broader Attack on LGBTQ Rights?

08.10.2025 10

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The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere

04.10.2025 10

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