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October 13, 2026
The Supreme Court may be about to make America’s prisons much crueler
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to “ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatm...
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October 5, 2026
The Supreme Court is looking for a way to kill climate lawsuits
Inside Chief Justice John Roberts are two wolves. The first wolf is a staunch conservative who spent much of his career litigating on behalf of corporate interests. This wolf looks at a series of c...
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September 29, 2026
The next generation of Republican justices will be even more partisan
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Missouri may not use a newly drawn Republican gerrymander during the 2026 congressional election. This decision should surprise no one because, about two week...
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September 28, 2026
Big Oil has an audacious request for the Supreme Court
In a 2016 opinion, authored one year before he became a Supreme Court justice, then-Judge Neil Gorsuch warned against lawyers who tempt judges to reach conclusions that aren’t supported by the Cons...
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September 16, 2026
The successful campaign to make a terrifying Supreme Court immigration case disappear
If you felt a gust of wind late on Friday, it came from hundreds of immigration lawyers who simultaneously exhaled after the Supreme Court announced it would not hear a case known as Genalo v. Blac...
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September 15, 2026
The Supreme Court has finally had it with Trump’s plan to steal the midterms
On Monday evening, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in United States Postal Service v. California — the case involving President Donald Trump’s attempt to sabotage voting by ...
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September 10, 2026
The Supreme Court just handed Republicans a surprisingly decisive midterm loss
Wow, that was quick. At 10:03 am ET, according to the Supreme Court’s docket, a group of Republican plaintiffs filed a brief asking the Court to bless a GOP gerrymander in Missouri. Less than half ...
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September 9, 2026
Republicans suffered a stunning Supreme Court loss. It lasted minutes.
For several minutes on Tuesday evening, Democrats thought they’d actually scored an important legal victory — and in an election case to boot! But then a single Trump-appointed judge cast a cloud o...
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September 3, 2026
Republicans ask the Supreme Court to give them a huge discount on ad spending
The Republican Party is once again asking the Supreme Court to change the rules governing US elections in order to make it easier for GOP candidates to prevail in future elections. And this Court, ...
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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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