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The Supreme Court Sapping Black Voting Power Was Not an Accident

The Supreme Court Sapping Black Voting Power Was Not an Accident

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Robyn Nicole Sanders

The Terrible, Hidden Stakes of One of the Thorniest Supreme Court Cases of This Term

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10.04.2026 10

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The Supreme Court’s Big Voting Case Embraces an Approach It Rejected Just Three Years Ago

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Was One of the Few Justices to Recognize the Trans Sports Cases Are About Real People

15.01.2026 50

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Sonia Sotomayor Just Vindicated the Rights of the Incarcerated to Seek Appeals

10.01.2026 20

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The Supreme Court Was Ripe for Another Ideological Food Fight. Then Something Else Happened.

09.01.2026 40

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The Dashcam Video of His Violent Arrest Has Gone Viral. Why He Decided to Record It.

28.07.2025 10

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The Supreme Court Might Be About to Turbocharge ICE Even More Than Trump’s Big Bill

03.07.2025 10

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The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Gets History Achingly Wrong

27.06.2025 30

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This Is Samuel Alito’s Ugliest Dissent in Some Time

27.06.2025 20

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A Criminal Law Case So Messed Up It Brought Clarence Thomas and KBJ on the Same Side

17.06.2025 10

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Why the Supreme Court Decision Protecting a “Majority” Plaintiff Was Really a Win for Civil Rights

06.06.2025 20

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Brett Kavanaugh Just Gave a Gratuitous Win to Cops Who Kill

16.05.2025 20

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The Acquittal of Tyre Nichols’ Killers and the Hollow Promise of 2020

09.05.2025 20

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One of the Most Complex Cases of the Supreme Court Term Is Also One of the Most Straightforward

24.04.2025 10

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Is the Supreme Court About to Make Police Violence Much Worse?

16.04.2025 10

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I Almost Joined Big Law. I Always Knew What It Would Do When Trump Came Calling.

04.04.2025 10

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