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September 1, 2026
A federal judge just discovered a whole new way to place ICE above the law
For a brief moment last week, it appeared that an ICE officer, who allegedly shot a man during the early 2026 occupation of Minneapolis and then lied about it, might actually face legal consequence...
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August 31, 2026
The Supreme Court just gave Trump his illegal ballroom
Welp, the Supreme Court has decided that President Donald Trump gets to build his ballroom. The decision in National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation is 5-4, with Republican...
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August 30, 2026
One of the Supreme Court’s worst ideas could save the midterms from Trump
Well, that was quick. On Thursday evening, federal district Judge Indira Talwani issued a new order that temporarily blocks an effort by the Trump administration that appears designed to sabotage v...
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August 25, 2026
Trump’s new attempt to seize control of the Federal Reserve, explained
Less than two months after the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors — a move that would have allowed him to seize ...
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August 24, 2026
The Supreme Court just revived Trump’s attempt to sabotage the 2026 election
In March, President Donald Trump issued a blatantly illegal executive order claiming that he had the power to unilaterally rewrite US election law. The order threatens prosecutions against state of...
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August 21, 2026
The Supreme Court’s about to face an entirely new kind of voter discrimination
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court struck down a South Carolina law that permits all voters over age 65 to vote by mail but allows younger voters to do so only if they meet a set of specific crite...
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August 18, 2026
How the Supreme Court could use Trump’s ballroom to gut environmental law
The question of whether President Donald Trump may, without seeking permission from Congress, demolish much of the White House and replace it with his own projects is now before the Supreme Court. ...
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August 18, 2026
How the Supreme Court remade religious liberty in the Christian right’s image
The Republican Party’s supermajority on the Supreme Court was barely a month old when the justices handed down one of the most consequential religion decisions of the last several decades. It was A...
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August 11, 2026
Trump is searching for the Supreme Court’s breaking point on birthright citizenship
Last week, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that purports to strip citizenship from some Americans. This isn’t our first time here: Last year, Trump issued an executive order th...
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August 3, 2026
The Republican resistance to Todd Blanche was never serious
For a brief moment late last week, it looked like acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s bid to get the word “acting” removed from his job title was in serious trouble. But that moment appears to h...
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August 3, 2026
How a fringe idea about race took over the Supreme Court
Last June, in a case that effectively guaranteed one of Alabama’s Black Democratic members of Congress would be replaced by a white Republican, the Supreme Court used a single word that delighted m...
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July 29, 2026
Trump wants the Supreme Court to give him the unilateral power to rewrite election law
A court case involving President Donald Trump’s efforts to sabotage voting by mail reached the Supreme Court on Monday. The executive order at the heart of Trump v. California is one of many attemp...
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July 22, 2026
Trump is stocking the government with his personal lawyers
There was an unintentionally revealing moment in acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing last week. After Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Blanche whether he and President Donald ...
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July 8, 2026
MAGA has a new villain: Amy Coney Barrett
A new Economist/YouGov poll is a rich text for political observers of the Supreme Court. The Court is unpopular (only 36 percent of American adults approve). It is loathed by Democrats (80 percent ...
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July 3, 2026
The Supreme Court can no longer explain itself
The legal profession is much like a priesthood; both lawyers and theologians interpret a central text, be it the Bible, the Quran, the Gita, or the Constitution. We bury ourselves in canonical comm...
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June 30, 2026
The Supreme Court’s trans sports ruling is a cautionary tale for all left-leaning lawyers
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that states may bar transgender women from competing on women’s sports teams at secondary schools, colleges, and universities. More than two dozen states have law...
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June 30, 2026
The Supreme Court just came one vote away from a constitutional catastrophe
There is no question in US law that is clearly or more firmly settled than the question of whether people born in the United States are citizens of this country. The Fourteenth Amendment states tha...
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June 29, 2026
The Supreme Court just made Trump the most powerful president in generations
Trump v. Slaughter, one of two “unitary executive” cases that the Supreme Court handed down on Monday, is the culmination of a nearly 40-year fight by Republican judges to expand the powers of the ...
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June 29, 2026
A fringe attack on voting rights just got four votes on the Supreme Court
The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson v. Republican National Committee is that three 19th-century federal laws require thousands of lawfully cast ballots to be tossed in the trash...
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June 25, 2026
The Supreme Court lets Trump deport people back to war zones
The Supreme Court held on Thursday that the Trump administration may ignore procedural rules governing the “temporary protected status” (TPS) program, which allows foreign nationals from war torn o...
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June 25, 2026
The Supreme Court’s embarrassing new Second Amendment decision, explained
On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii gun law, claiming that it violates the Second Amendment. As is almost always the case in the Court’s Second Amendment decisions, Wolford v. Lopez...
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June 23, 2026
The Supreme Court’s campaign to expand religious liberty now has a glaring exception
A Louisiana prison committed one of the most obvious violations of a man’s religious liberty that has ever made its way to the Supreme Court. Damon Landor is a Rastafari who, for religious reasons...
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June 23, 2026
The Supreme Court is about to decide if children still have free speech rights
It’s not a great time to be a parent. Young people get their information from platforms that did not exist just a few years ago and that many adults have never even heard of. Many parents, who did ...
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June 18, 2026
The Supreme Court has good news for people who like weed and guns
Do you like to smoke marijuana? Do you also enjoy firearms? If so, the Supreme Court has great news for you. On Thursday, the Supreme Court held in United States v. Hemani that the federal governme...
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June 16, 2026
Why the Supreme Court is fighting over deadly gas and firing squads
Last week, the Supreme Court handed an unusual — if temporary — victory to an Alabama man on death row. As Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, writes, this is the first time in over five yea...
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June 12, 2026
The Supreme Court invented a special legal rule solely to screw Planned Parenthood
About a year ago, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025). In Medina, South Carolina committed an obvious violation of federal Medicaid law, but the...
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June 10, 2026
The next victim of the Supreme Court’s voting rights decision will be workers
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice released an opinion on Tuesday that, in the likely event it is embraced by a Republican-controlled federal judiciary, would make it significantly hard...
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