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McNutt v. DOJ could allow the justices to seize tremendous power over the US economy.
McNutt v. DOJ could allow the justices to seize tremendous power over the US economy.
At least seven justices appear to believe that the Fourteenth Amendment means what it says.
Sadly, the Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar is correct.
A court just gave awful news to victims of ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis.
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This is a good thing.
The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.
At least four justices appear to be on board with a frivolous lawsuit attacking voting by mail.
The Republican Party wants the Court to toss out thousands of ballots. Its arguments are laughably weak.
No lawyer has done more in the last decade to advance a distinctly MAGA approach to the Constitution than Ken Paxton.
The Court’s latest ruling invokes a power that corrupts every court that wields it.
Gun lovers may soon have the right to bear bongs.
There are three camps: The judicial supremacists, the GOP partisans, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Do stoners have a right to bear arms?
The Court just did Trump a huge favor. Will he take it?
Trump loses, and the Democratic justices didn’t need to concede anything.
A questionable lawsuit seeking to redraw a Republican district risks turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering campaign.
America’s Trumpiest court just gave Trump a dangerous new weapon.
The short answer is that this Supreme Court loves gerrymandering more than it hates Democrats.
The Supreme Court is the GOP’s most durable power center. It makes no sense for them to endanger that source of power.
The Republican justices already upheld Texas’s gerrymander, now we’ll find out if the same rules apply to blue states.
Plaintiffs from the religious right are asking the Republican justices to seize control of public schools.
Federal agents just shot and killed another person in Minneapolis.
Trump’s attempt to bully the Federal Reserve got an icy reception from the justices.
It’s obvious that the Court isn’t actually trying to come up with a legal rule that makes sense.
The answer could hinge on a Supreme Court ruling from 1890 — and another from 2025.
Trans athletes always faced a difficult road in this Court.
The Court must deal with the chaos it created around guns.
Chief Justice Roberts owes Powell an apology.
Trump picked the worst possible time to go after Jerome Powell.
The short answer is that it is unclear.
One of Trump’s most high-profile DOJ appointments faces a rare disciplinary threat from the bench.
Trans advocates would face a difficult road in the sports cases, even if the Court weren’t dominated by Republicans.
Even some of the Court’s Republicans ruled that his attempt to use troops against US citizens went too far.
Guns, God, gays, and abortion dominate the Trump era Supreme Court’s docket.
The justices seemed to reject Justice Neil Gorsuch’s earlier call for major changes to the rules governing punishment.
The Court’s GOP majority wants to grow Trump’s authority, but also give itself a veto power over the president.
There is no plausible argument that Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is constitutional.
The Court’s Texas decision is a victory for Republicans, and it is a terrible blow to all gerrymandering plaintiffs.
Hamm v. Smith is a death penalty case, but it could have big implications for anyone accused of a crime.
The Court already killed most US campaign finance law. NRSC v. FEC is likely to give big donors even more influence.
Meanwhile, Texas Republicans want to immunize their gerrymander from constitutional review.
The GOP justices are about to hand Trump a victory that they have been dreaming about since he was married to Ivana.
Oops.
Thus far, the justices have signaled they may not let him — yet.