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Trump Won His War on the Justice Department

Trump Won His War on the Justice Department
yesterday 10

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To Fight Trump, Democrats Must Embrace Gerrymandering

To Fight Trump, Democrats Must Embrace Gerrymandering
06.02.2025 2

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Elon Musk Has Broken the Constitutional Order

Elon Musk Has Broken the Constitutional Order
05.02.2025 40

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Trump Is Aiming to Run Roughshod Over the States

Trump Is Aiming to Run Roughshod Over the States
03.02.2025 4

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What Were the Trump Think Tanks Doing For the Last Four Years?

What Were the Trump Think Tanks Doing For the Last Four Years?
30.01.2025 20

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Oklahoma Brings a Religious Freedom Tussle to the Supreme Court’s Door

Oklahoma Brings a Religious Freedom Tussle to the Supreme Court’s Door
29.01.2025 4

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Trump’s Legal War on Birthright Citizenship Is Off to a Bad Start

Trump’s Legal War on Birthright Citizenship Is Off to a Bad Start
27.01.2025 20

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Memecoins Are the Perfect Trumpian Swindle

Memecoins Are the Perfect Trumpian Swindle
23.01.2025 7

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Trump Tests the High Court’s Resolve With Birthright Citizenship Order

Trump Tests the High Court’s Resolve With Birthright Citizenship Order
22.01.2025 10

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Donald Trump Is Back to Usher In the Second Gilded Age

20.01.2025 50

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The Hilariously Twisted History of the Supreme Court and Porn

17.01.2025 4

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The Right-Wing Judge on a Mission to Destroy ESG Retirement Planning

15.01.2025 7

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Trump’s Quest for Total Presidential Immunity Has Hit a Snag

10.01.2025 30

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The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term

09.01.2025 10

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Big Oil Has Enlisted Alabama in Their Fight Against California

The Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions each year but only agrees to hear a fraction of them. Sometimes this means the court overlooks...

07.01.2025 10

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John Roberts Is Imagining Things

Chief Justice John Roberts wrapped up 2024 by once again issuing his annual year-end report. Though often brief and dry, it is notable because it...

03.01.2025 30

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How the Silicon Valley Robber Barons’ New Tech Bubble Won 2024

The American economy seems to be doing pretty well right now, at least on paper. Unemployment is low. Stocks are up from last year. Inflation is...

27.12.2024 7

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Trump Is Going Back to War With Congress

Every American schoolkid learns how the federal government works. Congress, as the legislative branch, writes the laws and sets the budget. The...

17.12.2024 10

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America’s Online Sports Betting Crisis Is Already Here

Earlier this month, The Economist made a bold claim in its December 5, 2024, issue: “America’s gambling boom should be celebrated, not feared.” The...

12.12.2024 5

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Why Many Americans Are Celebrating the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Murder

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on Wednesday appears to be the first successful assassination of a national...

07.12.2024 30

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The Lives of Transgender Americans Are in the Supreme Court’s Hands

It was a small moment during Wednesday’s oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti when Chief Justice John Roberts called Chase Strangio, an...

05.12.2024 10

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The Hunter Biden Pardon Is Joe Biden’s Ultimate Failure

President Joe Biden’s decision to grant a pardon to his son Hunter is a fitting coda to what has become a failed presidency. The president entered...

03.12.2024 30

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is the Problem It Wants to Solve

Earlier this week, I wrote about the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and its vague but audacious plans for reforming the executive...

22.11.2024 3

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Trump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court

President-elect Donald Trump has wanted to end birthright citizenship for almost a decade. He first called for its elimination in 2015, telling...

20.11.2024 10

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Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Should Eliminate Itself

Elon Musk appears poised to play a major role in the next Trump administration. The billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter formally...

19.11.2024 9

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Will Trump Break Congress to Confirm Matt Gaetz?

No position in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is as important as the attorney general. During his first term, Trump chafed against the...

15.11.2024 10

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A Federal Court Just Upended Decades of Environmental Regulation

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that federal agencies and courts have been misinterpreting a major environmental law for the last...

14.11.2024 20

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Utah Lawmakers Hint at “War” in Federal Land Dispute

Back in August, the state of Utah filed an unusual lawsuit directly before the Supreme Court that sought to wrest away control of millions of acres...

13.11.2024 3

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The Rightward Tremor That Shook California

One of the most surprising results from this week’s election came in California, a state where there was zero doubt about the presidential result....

08.11.2024 3

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Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

Every presidential election is about control of the Supreme Court, even if many Americans don’t consciously realize it. By reelecting former...

06.11.2024 3

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A Surprise Court Ruling Might Be Bad News for Dark-Money Groups

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court abolished a long-standing doctrine known as “Chevron deference,” which had required courts to defer to federal...

01.11.2024 2

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What is Trump’s “Little Secret” With Speaker Mike Johnson?

Former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City received a lot of attention for its racist comments. Another...

01.11.2024 4

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The Supreme Court Takes Aim at California’s Right to Clean Air

In the 2013 case Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on the premise that it violated the “equal...

28.10.2024 20

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Polluters Found a New Way to Weaken the EPA at the Supreme Court

The Rolling Stones once said that you can’t always get what you want. While they were writing about love, the same principle also holds true for...

24.10.2024 3

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I Don’t Trust the Supreme Court With the 2024 Election

It’s impossible to say whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will win the presidential election next month. Far more easy to predict is that there...

23.10.2024 10

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