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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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January 12, 2026
Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week
On Sunday evening, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell posted an unusual video message to the nation, revealing that the Trump administration opened a criminal investigation into him — ostensibly b...
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January 7, 2026
Can Minnesota prosecute the federal immigration officer who just killed a woman?
A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents to the city. Although the full circumstances o...
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January 7, 2026
Trump’s revenge campaign is now putting the entire Justice Department at risk
A Trump-appointed judge in Richmond, Virginia issued an unusual order on Tuesday that threatens one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile Department of Justice appointees with disciplinary ...
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January 7, 2026
The Supreme Court confronts the trans rights movement’s toughest legal battle
Let’s be honest. The question of whether transgender athletes have a right to play school-sponsored sports was always the toughest legal issue facing trans advocates. The Supreme Court’s trans rig...
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January 6, 2026
Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that abortion must remain legal in that state, despite a 2023 law seeking to ban it. The case is known as State v. Johnson. Wyoming is America’s reddest s...
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December 23, 2025
The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss
The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday. In T...
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December 23, 2025
The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court for much of the last several decades has been a fairly technocratic body. The Court, to be sure, has handed down its share of historic cases: Case names like Brown v. Board of Ed...
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December 10, 2025
The Supreme Court sounds surprisingly open to a case against a death sentence
From the moment the Republican Party gained a 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court, in late 2020, the Court has often acted as if it is going down a checklist — identifying landmark precedents th...
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December 8, 2025
How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself
If you’ve followed the Supreme Court’s recent presidential power cases, you know there’s no mystery surrounding the Court’s eventual decision in Trump v. Slaughter, a case asking if President Donal...
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December 5, 2025
The Supreme Court takes up the most unconstitutional thing Trump has done
Last January, when Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour became the first federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, he did not mince words. “I’ve been on th...
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December 5, 2025
The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable
The Supreme Court reinstated a Texas gerrymander that is expected to give Republicans five additional seats in the US House on Thursday evening, after a lower federal court struck that gerrymander ...
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December 4, 2025
The Supreme Court case that could redefine “cruel and unusual,” explained
Nearly a quarter century ago, in Atkins v. Virginia (2002), the Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to execute offenders with an intellectual disability. Next Wednesday, however, the Sup...
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December 3, 2025
Republicans ask the Supreme Court to gut one of the last limits on money in politics
There is a specter of inevitability hanging over much of the Supreme Court’s current term. It is unlikely that any legal argument could persuade the Court’s Republican majority to uphold bans on an...
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December 2, 2025
Republicans want the Supreme Court to save them from their own inept mistake
Last month, a federal court in Texas ruled that a Republican gerrymander, expected to give the GOP five extra seats in the US House, must be struck down because of incompetent lawyering by Presiden...
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