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May 14, 2026
Mifepristone survives another Supreme Court scare — for now
A common abortion drug survived a second brush with the Supreme Court, leaving it accessible while justices decide its fate in a future ruling. The Court issued a brief order Thursday evening, whic...
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May 12, 2026
Virginia Democrats’ irresponsible new plan to save their gerrymander
If you’re a Democrat, ask yourself a simple question: When was the last time something got better after Brett Kavanaugh put his hands on it? Unfortunately, Jay Jones, the Democratic attorney genera...
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May 8, 2026
The glaring error in the Virginia Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision
By a 4-3 vote, the Virginia Supreme Court just struck down that state’s recently enacted congressional maps, which were intended to give Democrats four additional seats in the state’s congressional...
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May 7, 2026
Is Trump’s Justice Department trying to discredit itself?
On Wednesday, when FBI agents raided the office of one of the most powerful Democrats in Virginia, Fox News just happened to have one of its Washington-based foreign correspondents on the scene in ...
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May 6, 2026
The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority effectively repealed a 1982 amendment to the Voting Rights Act that required some states to draw a minimum number of majority-Black or majori...
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May 4, 2026
The Supreme Court gets thrown back into the abortion wars
On Friday evening, the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit attempted to cut off access to the abortion drug mifepristone. If you’re experiencing déjà vu, you should be, bec...
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May 4, 2026
What the Supreme Court still has left to decide this term
Being a Supreme Court justice is a pretty sweet gig. The Court typically hears about 60 cases a year, plus a smattering of “shadow docket” cases that receive expedited review. Like schoolchildren, ...
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April 29, 2026
The Voting Rights Act is all but dead. Prepare for maximum gerrymandering.
Get yourself a man who loves you as much as Justice Samuel Alito loves partisan gerrymandering. The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which was handed down on Wednesday, was expecte...
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April 27, 2026
The Supreme Court seems nervous about letting the police track you with your phone
If I’d only listened to the first half of the Supreme Court’s Monday argument in Chatrie v. United States, a case asking when police can use cellphone data to determine who was present near the sit...
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April 22, 2026
The wide-ranging fallout from the Supreme Court’s new terrorism decision, explained
The facts underlying Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, a case the Supreme Court handed down on Wednesday, are horrible and tragic. During a 2016 Veterans Day celebration on Bagram Airfield, a US milita...
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April 22, 2026
The Supreme Court will decide if migrants can be sent back to war zones
Imagine that you are a foreign national vacationing in New York when a civil war breaks out in your home country. Political dissidents, as well as bystanders who are unfortunate enough to get in th...
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April 20, 2026
The Supreme Court will decide when the police can use your phone to track you
Check your pocket. You’re probably carrying a tracking device that will allow the police — or even the Trump administration — to track every move that you make. If you use a cellphone, you are unav...
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April 14, 2026
The Supreme Court could legalize moonshine, and ruin everything else
On Friday, a federal appeals court struck down a nearly 160-year-old federal law prohibiting people from distilling liquor in their own home. That’s a fairly momentous event in its own right — any...
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April 8, 2026
It should be much easier to remove the president from office
The 25th Amendment is having a moment. According to a tally by NBC News, over 70 Democratic lawmakers called for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to invoke an obscure constitutional provision that ...
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April 8, 2026
Democrats just locked down control of one of the most important courts in America
Wisconsin voters effectively gave Democrats a supermajority on one of the most important state supreme courts in the country on Tuesday. The result was a blowout. Justice-elect Chris Taylor defeate...
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April 2, 2026
Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous
Early in the first Trump administration, the legal journalist Benjamin Wittes coined one of the best descriptions of how President Donald Trump governs: “malevolence tempered by incompetence.” Trum...
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April 1, 2026
Even this Supreme Court seems unwilling to end birthright citizenship
If you’ve been worried that this Supreme Court might give President Donald Trump the power to strip citizenship away from Americans, you can go ahead and exhale. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hea...
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March 31, 2026
Why an 8-1 Supreme Court just ruled in favor of anti-LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy”
There was never much doubt how this Supreme Court would decide Chiles v. Salazar, a lawsuit challenging a Colorado law that bars licensed therapists from providing “conversion therapy,” or counseli...
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March 27, 2026
The sneaky way Trump’s lawyers are supercharging ICE
Shortly after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, his administration started illegally detaining immigrants without giving them a bond hearing or other method of avoiding incarc...
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March 26, 2026
The Supreme Court is scared it’s going to break the internet
The Supreme Court tossed out a billion-dollar verdict against an internet service provider (ISP) on Wednesday, in a closely watched case that could have severely damaged many Americans’ access to t...
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March 24, 2026
The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court
Three days after President Donald Trump began his second term, Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, became the first judge to block Trump’s attempt to strip citizenship from many Americans wh...
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March 23, 2026
The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots
If the United States had a nonpartisan judiciary, Watson v. Republican National Committee would have been laughed out of court months ago. The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson is...
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March 16, 2026
The Supreme Court case attempting to sabotage voting by mail, explained
The premise of the Republican Party’s arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee is that, nearly 200 years ago, Congress banned the states from counting thousands of the ballots that are ...
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March 4, 2026
MAGA’s top lawyer just gave a sitting GOP senator the biggest scare of his career
Tuesday’s Senate Republican primary in Texas ended in an anticlimax, with no candidate winning a majority of the vote. Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn will face state Attorney General Ken Paxton in a Ma...
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March 3, 2026
The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority just did the legal equivalent of grabbing J.R.R. Tolkien’s One Ring, placing it on their collective fingers, and dancing around singing, “I just can’t wait t...
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March 2, 2026
The Supreme Court appears likely to let stoners own guns
During oral argument on Monday, a majority of the justices appeared likely to strike down a federal law prohibiting an “unlawful user” of marijuana from possessing a firearm — or, at least, they ap...
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February 24, 2026
The Republican justices are fighting over who should really run the government
The most important thing to understand about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, at least as a political matter, is that tariffs are an issue that largely unites Democrats and that divides Republican...
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February 23, 2026
The Supreme Court will decide if marijuana users may be barred from owning guns
On March 2, the justices will hear their second major Second Amendment case of the Supreme Court’s current term. United States v. Hemani asks whether Congress may make it a crime for an “unlawful u...
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February 20, 2026
Why a Republican Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs
The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Learning Resources v. Trump on Friday, with a total of six justices concluding that a wide range of tariffs imposed by President Donald Tr...
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February 19, 2026
A new Supreme Court gerrymandering case is nightmare fuel for Democrats
Every now and then, a judge hands down a decision that is so ill-advised that it is impossible to read without burying your face in your palm. New York State Judge Jeffrey Pearlman’s opinion in Wil...
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