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Trump threatened to arrest state election officials who distribute mailed ballots. Then, the courts got involved.
Trump threatened to arrest state election officials who distribute mailed ballots. Then, the courts got involved.
Three of his criminal defense attorneys are a step away from the Supreme Court. One is running the DOJ.
A new poll finds that Barrett is the least popular justice. A Republican revolt against her is the biggest reason why.
The justices don’t speak a common language, even with each other.
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The Supreme Court knew one of its new rulings could endanger democracy — and did it anyway.
If you’re a liberal, and you’re thinking of bringing a case to the Supreme Court, don’t.
The 5-4 vote in the birthright citizenship case is a warning that all of US law is in terrible danger.
The Republican justices just won a four-decade war against “independent” federal agencies.
Watson v. RNC is the easiest election law case to reach the justices in years. It should not have been 5-4.
Trump’s administration may ignore procedural rules governing many of the most endangered people in America.
Every Second Amendment case handed down by this Court is arbitrary, because the Court’s leading precedent makes no sense.
Why the Court just ruled against a Rastafari man whose rights were violated in the most blatant way imaginable.
The Court’s hearing a case which asks if the internet has made the First Amendment obsolete.
United States v. Hemani does not clarify the Court’s chaotic gun decisions, but it is good news if you like to get high and shoot.
For the second time in two months, the GOP-controlled Court handed a victory to a person on death row.
A new SCOTUS decision raises new doubts about whether a decision against a major abortion provider had any basis in law.
The Trump administration wants to extend Justice Sam Alito’s approach to race to everything.
The Court’s new gerrymandering decision is tough to explain, unless you think the justices are GOP partisans.
How the heck did Alabama’s Republican lawmakers screw this one up?
Justice Barrett wants Trump to be able to fire everyone in the federal government.
The Court’s Republicans appear much more divided on the death penalty than some of their previous cases suggested.
Why did a Court that hates the Voting Rights Act with the intensity of a thousand suns decide to stay its hand?
Only Thomas and Alito publicly dissented.
Trump helped overturn Roe. Anti-abortion advocates still aren’t happy.
How Louisiana brought mifepristone back to SCOTUS.
Democrats just handed the Supreme Court’s Republicans a loaded weapon.
SCOTUS has lost its sense of when to shut up.
Why haven’t the Republican justices banned mifepristone already?
Democracy and Donald Trump dominate the Court’s remaining docket.
The Republican justices just abolished 40 years worth of law protecting against rigged maps.
The justices were concerned that the Trump administration is asking for too much in a major police surveillance case.
The Court’s Republican majority fractured in a case that could impact everyone from immigrants to consumers.
When can the Trump administration strip legal protections from migrants who risk death in their home countries?
Chatrie v. United States asks what limits the Constitution places on the surveillance state in an age of cellphones.
McNutt v. DOJ could allow the justices to seize tremendous power over the US economy.
At least seven justices appear to believe that the Fourteenth Amendment means what it says.
Sadly, the Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar is correct.
A court just gave awful news to victims of ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis.
This is a good thing.
The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.
At least four justices appear to be on board with a frivolous lawsuit attacking voting by mail.
