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Ian Millhiser

Ian Millhiser

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Ian Millhiser

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    The Federalist Society controls the federal judiciary, so why can’t they stop whining?The Federalist Society controls the federal judiciary, so why can’t they stop whining?
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    All they do is win, win, win, no matter what. So why are America’s most powerful lawyers so unhappy?

    By Ian Millhiser
    Politics
    The legal fight that could kill Biden’s student debt relief plan, explainedThe legal fight that could kill Biden’s student debt relief plan, explained
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    The program is almost certainly legal, but that fact is unlikely to persuade a judiciary dominated by his partisan foes.

    By Ian Millhiser
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    Medicaid appears likely to survive its latest encounter with the Supreme CourtMedicaid appears likely to survive its latest encounter with the Supreme Court
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    The anti-Medicaid arguments in Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski appeared to be too much even for this Court.

    By Ian Millhiser
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    The high stakes in a Supreme Court case about American Indian childrenThe high stakes in a Supreme Court case about American Indian children
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    Brackeen v. Haaland attacks a 44-year-old law enacted to halt cultural genocide.

    By Ian Millhiser
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    The nightmarish Supreme Court case that could gut Medicaid, explainedThe nightmarish Supreme Court case that could gut Medicaid, explained
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    Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski is the single greatest threat to America’s social safety net since Paul Ryan.

    By Ian Millhiser
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    The Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hardThe Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hard
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    Not that anything is likely to stop them from doing it anyway.

    By Ian Millhiser
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    Lindsey Graham’s surprisingly complex Supreme Court case about Trump’s Big Lie, explainedLindsey Graham’s surprisingly complex Supreme Court case about Trump’s Big Lie, explained
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    Graham v. Fulton County asks a highly partisan Supreme Court to sabotage a criminal investigation into the Big Lie.

    By Ian Millhiser
    What the Constitution actually says about race, explained
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    There’s a glaring flaw in the Supreme Court lawsuits attacking affirmative action.

    By Ian Millhiser
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    America’s Trumpiest court just declared an entire federal agency unconstitutionalAmerica’s Trumpiest court just declared an entire federal agency unconstitutional
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    The Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Community Financial v. CFPB is completely incoherent.

    By Ian Millhiser
    Politics
    The Supreme Court just shut down Trump’s last-ditch effort to sabotage the Mar-a-Lago investigationThe Supreme Court just shut down Trump’s last-ditch effort to sabotage the Mar-a-Lago investigation
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    One of the stupidest chapters in recent American legal history comes to a close.

    By Ian Millhiser