
Ian Millhiser
Senior Correspondent
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is where law goes to die.


The US Senate is a fundamentally broken institution. Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions.


The Fifth Circuit’s decision in Crawford v. Cain is a monument to judicial lawlessness.


A rule governing federal courts in Texas turned a former lawyer for the religious right into one of the most powerful people in the United States.


In retrospect, it was inevitable that this particular judge would come for contraception.


Moore v. Harper, one of the scariest election cases in the Supreme Court’s modern history, probably won’t end in catastrophe.


Moore v. Harper is a test of whether this Supreme Court can ever be trusted with power.


What is art? The Christian right wants that question to be decided by the Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis.


Arguments in United States v. Texas dwelled on whether to upend one of the judiciary’s longstanding procedures in order to neutralize the most reactionary judges.


Judge Drew Tipton’s order in United States v. Texas is completely lawless. Thus far, the Supreme Court has given him a pass.
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