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Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

Donald Trump is not particularly popular. The only recent president with lower approval ratings six months into his term was Trump, in his first term....

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The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It

The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to hide what you are doing in Washington, announce it on a Friday evening in the heat of...

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Congressional Dems Sue After Being Turned Away From ICE Facilities

Congressional Dems Sue After Being Turned Away From ICE Facilities

Over and over again, Democratic members of Congress have attempted to enter Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to investigate the...

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“This Is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering

“This Is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering

After nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza is on the brink of mass starvation. Children are dying. Aid workers and doctors push...

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The State Department Shuts Down Its Office Combating Human Trafficking

As President Donald Trump takes a beating from his own MAGA crowd for his handling of the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophile and sex...

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State Department Employees Brace for Friday Layoffs

Inside the State Department, employees are packing up their belongings in anticipation of a reorganization and reduction in force that is expected to...

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Trump Is Now Free to Send Immigrants to “Third Countries”

On the 249 anniversary of the country’s declaration of independence from tyranny, the Trump administration was in court asking a judge to let it...

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Trump Claims the Power to Nullify the Law

Remember when Congress banned TikTok? A bipartisan majority passed a law last year to ban the massively popular social media platform due to the...

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This Term, the Supreme Court Gave Favors to Its MAGA Allies on Two Tracks

Last week, the Supreme Court ended a term unlike any other. The Roberts Court, with its 6-3 majority of Republican appointees, continued to issue...

02.07.2025 2

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“Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

Once upon a time, there was a president who wanted to be king. His Congress was acquiescent. The high court approved. But lower federal courts held...

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The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Key Civil Rights Law

The headline from the Supreme Court on Thursday is that the GOP-appointed justices green lit efforts by Republican-controlled states to defund Planned...

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Trump Is Ignoring Court Orders, and the Supreme Court Seems OK With That

The Trump administration argues it has the right to deport certain immigrants to far-flung, dangerous locations such as Libya, South Sudan, and an...

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The Supreme Court is Making an All Powerful President—But the One We Have Isn’t All That Interested in the Job

The Trump administration is investigating whether former President Joe Biden was so enfeebled that his advisers secretly ran the country on his...

12.06.2025 3

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The Trump Administration Is Already Ignoring the Supreme Court

On May 16, the Supreme Court handed down a significant order in one of the many swirling cases over the Trump administration’s efforts to seize...

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The Supreme Court Makes Sure the Law Does Not Get in the Way of Trump’s Takeover

On Thursday night, the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices allowed President Donald Trump to remove two executive branch officials:...

23.05.2025 3

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House GOPers Just Voted for the Biggest Medicaid Cuts in History—After Promising to Protect It

House Republicans whose seats are not safe in the 2026 midterm elections voted early on Thursday morning to advance the largest cuts to Medicaid in...

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Trump Asks the Supreme Court for a “Catch Me if You Can” System of Justice

Not even a year ago, though it feels like a decade, the US Supreme Court granted presidents immunity from criminal laws when they act in their...

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To End Birthright Citizenship, Trump Is Rewriting Civil War History

When the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to deny birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants...

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Will the Supreme Court Let Trump Target Babies for the “Sins of the Parents”?

In 2022, Florida Republicans enacted the Stop WOKE Act, which sought to remove from school curriculums any lessons that might cause students to feel...

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The Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Power Grabs

It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was closing in on his presidency. A grand jury had subpoenaed secret...

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The Supreme Court Is About to Let Religion Ruin Public Education

In modern America, religious education is offered in private schools or in a homeschooling setting. Public education, by contrast, is secular, because...

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The Supreme Court Is Trying to Normalize Its Own Anti-LGBTQ Animus

On Tuesday, a group of religious parents had their day at the Supreme Court, hoping the justices would grant them something extraordinary: the ability...

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A Conservative Judge Just Issued a Dire Warning About the Abrego Garcia Case

A conservative federal judge just issued a dire warning: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was...

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Trump Refuses to Bring Back Those Wrongly Detained in El Salvador. You Could Be Next.

At any moment, the Supreme Court will issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration admits it...

09.04.2025 4

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Trump’s Tariffs Give Him a New Way to Dole Out Reward and Punishment

Just a few months ago, Americans’ optimism about the economy was on the rise. The stock market boomed after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and...

03.04.2025 4

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Violent Threats Against Members of Congress Spiked as Senate Considered Trump’s Nominees

When Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) went from a likely no vote on confirming Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary to an easy yes, the switch was...

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The Absurdity of Trump’s Autopen Meltdown

President Donald Trump has a new hobbyhorse: That his predecessor, President Joe Biden, didn’t legally grant pardons to people Trump wants to harass...

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The Framers Had a Plan to Protect us From Elon Musk

In an extraordinary show of the power that Elon Musk now exercises over the United States government, last week he joined a cabinet meeting in which...

14.03.2025 9

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A Little Agency Is Standing up to Musk with a Tell-All Lawsuit

Nearly two months into President Donald Trump’s lawless dismantling of the federal government, a small agency has stood up with a tell-all lawsuit....

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The Supreme Court Is Just One Vote Shy of Making Trump and Musk Kings

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court issued its first decision in Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s escalating war on government agencies and...

05.03.2025 10

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There’s No Way Elon Musk’s Job is Legal

According to Elon Musk’s posts on X, the social media platform he acquired through allegedly illegal tactics, Musk is discovering lawbreaking...

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What Justice Jackson Warned About in the Trump Immunity Case Is Coming True

Last spring, then–presidential nominee Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to grant him criminal immunity for all his official acts while he was in...

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Elon Musk May Now Have Unique Sway Over the US Treasury

Late Friday, newly sworn-in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave access to the agency’s payments system to representatives of the so-called...

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Trump’s Trade War Is Here and Promises to Get Ugly

As he ran for a second term, President Donald Trump promised to impose sweeping tariffs. On Saturday, he pressed the launch button. In three executive...

02.02.2025 2

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How DOGE Will Try to Dodge Transparency

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency he had promised after winning the 2024...

29.01.2025 4

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Trump’s “Wildly Illegal” Spending Gambit

On day seven of Donald Trump’s new presidency, his administration issued an order of possibly unrivaled lawlessness via a two-page memo directing a...

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Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a ban on TikTok to take effect. Last year, President Joe Biden signed a law that would ban the platform unless its...

17.01.2025 4

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The Supreme Court May Let TikTok Go Dark

The Supreme Court on Friday heard oral arguments on the future of TikTok—whether to let the platform go dark on January 19 according to a bipartisan...

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Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Felony Sentencing to Proceed

The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly denied President-elect Donald Trump’s last ditch effort to delay his sentencing in the New York hush money...

10.01.2025 10

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Corruption Is About to Get Worse, Thanks to the Supreme Court

Pool/Abaca/Zuma Tim Mossholder/Unsplash It’s an open question how well American democracy will withstand a second Trump presidency. Donald Trump...

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John Roberts Has a Plan to Deny Transgender Rights

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma After contemplating a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors Wednesday, the Supreme Court...

05.12.2024 4

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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Belittling, Abusing, and Lying to Women

Mattie Neretin/CNP/Zuma Pete Hegseth, the Fox News anchor whom Donald Trump has tapped to be his defense secretary, has come under intense scrutiny...

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Democrats Weigh New Leadership to Resist Trump

Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Democrats will have the unenviable task of pushing back against a second Trump administration as the minority party across...

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Trump’s FCC Pick Wants to Intimidate Broadcasters and Enrich Trump Allies

Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP During this year’s campaign, Donald Trump disowned Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation agenda that would transform the...

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How John Roberts Brought Back Donald Trump

Mother Jones illustration; Leah Millisl/Getty There will be endless ink spilled over the 2024 election, trying to sort out the overlapping reasons...

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Bomb Scares Bearing Moscow’s Fingerprints Seem Intended to Help Donald Trump

A voter leaves a polling place after voting on November 5, 2024, in Rutledge, Georgia. Mother Jones illustration; John Bazemore/AP It started with...

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Republicans on Track to Take Senate Control

Mother Jones illustration; Matt Rourke/AP, Jeff Dean/AP, Morry Gash/AP The Republican Party is on track to win control of the Senate, a significant...

06.11.2024 2

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Russia Just Tried to Disrupt Georgia Voting With a Phony Bomb Scare

People wait in line to vote on the last day of early voting at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 1, 2024. (Elijah Nouvelage /...

05.11.2024 5

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Justice Alito Has Already Set the Stage for a Supreme Court Election Showdown

Justice Samuel Alito sits during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty...

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Trump Promises to Prosecute His Enemies if Elected. The Media Is Already Getting a Taste.

Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Donald Trump has promised to prosecute his political opponents should he retake the White House. He’s planned to remove...

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