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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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February 9, 2026
The MAGA court decision that just supercharged ICE
Two judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a court dominated by MAGA Republicans, just handed the Trump administration broad authority to lock up millions of immigrants...
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February 5, 2026
Why a Republican Supreme Court just handed a victory to Democrats
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that California’s newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give Democrats as many as five more seats in the US Hou...
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February 4, 2026
Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis has broken the Justice Department
“I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” a lawyer representing Donald Trump’s government told a federal judge on Tuesday. Julie Le, the lawyer, who was t...
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February 2, 2026
Republicans are normalizing the one reform they should fear most
Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed legislation over the weekend that will add two seats to his state’s supreme court — seats that Cox plans to fill shortly. The law is widely viewed as...
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January 28, 2026
The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander
Last month, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority reinstated Texas’s Republican gerrymander after a lower federal court struck it down. The plaintiffs in that case presented considerable evidence...
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January 27, 2026
How long can ICE keep ignoring federal courts?
The chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, just issued a remarkable order commanding the head of ICE to appear persona...
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January 26, 2026
The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students
The Supreme Court is currently considering whether the Constitution requires public schools to out transgender students to their parents, even when those students inform the school that they do not...
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January 24, 2026
Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man?
The video of the latest killing in Minneapolis is truly horrific. In it, about half a dozen men in military garb, who appear to be federal immigration officers sent to Minnesota by President Donald...
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January 21, 2026
The Supreme Court is likely to hand Trump a rare loss on the Federal Reserve
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority ordinarily believe that President Donald Trump is allowed to fire virtually anyone who works for a federal agency. Last July, for example, they permitted the...
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January 20, 2026
The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive principles can both be true at the same time. One principle is that all Second ...
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January 13, 2026
The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights
There was never much reason to hope that the Supreme Court, which heard two cases on Tuesday asking whether transgender women have a right to play women’s high school or college sports, was going t...
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January 13, 2026
The Supreme Court is about to confront its most embarrassing decision
Judges rarely complain openly about the Supreme Court, for the same reason that most people do not publicly chastise their bosses. Attacking your boss is a good way to ensure that your own work wil...
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January 12, 2026
The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible
On Sunday evening, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell revealed that the Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into him, nominally because of a dispute over a renovation of the F...
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