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The guy behind the Harvard lawsuit attacking affirmative action turns his ire on the service academies.
The Constitution gives the Biden administration nearly exclusive authority over matters of immigration. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the courts to change that.
The Fifth Circuit has spent years harassing a civil rights activist, and they gutted much of the First Amendment in the process.
By a bare 5-4 majority, the Supreme Court reaffirms that federal law still applies to Texas.
The case against Richard Glossip fell apart. Even the state’s Republican attorney general says he should not be executed. The Supreme Court may not care.
Inside the Supreme Court argument asking if the justices should crown themselves kings and queens.
For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court turned away an opportunity to make life much worse for trans youth.
An Oregon case will clarify whether officials can jail or fine homeless people for sleeping outside.
A core issue raised in the Colorado case seeking to disqualify Trump from the presidency is also present in a much more obscure case being argued next week.
The justices are threatening to put themselves in charge of every single federal agency. They should resist that temptation.
The Court blocked a lower court order enforcing a federal law that protects patients who require medically necessary abortions.
The Constitution has a right to defend itself, but Trump also has a right to due process.
The Trumpiest court in America just tried to neutralize a federal law requiring most hospitals to provide medically necessary abortions.
Trump wants to run out the clock on his criminal trials. The Supreme Court just gave him a significant assist.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision is unlikely to be upheld by the US Supreme Court, but this issue is not going away.
Trump claims that when the president tries to steal an election, it’s not illegal.
The justices will decide whether to ban mifepristone, a drug used in half of US abortions.
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Do therapists have a right to tell patients to “pray away the gay”? The Court is leaving that question open.
Even this very conservative Court appears reluctant to blow up the federal government’s power to tax rich people.
A federal law requires most hospitals to perform emergency abortions. The question is whether a Republican Supreme Court will enforce it.
SEC v. Jarkesy is still likely to end in a 6-3 decision against the federal government. But it probably won’t be a catastrophic loss.
Reed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary.
At the very moment the Supreme Court appears to be moderating on voting rights, GOP judges are going after America’s most important voting rights law.
A SCOTUS case aiming to protect rich people from taxes could lead to chaos for the federal government’s finances.
The “unitary executive” is back, and it could supercharge Trump’s plans to fill the government with his own loyalists.
The code is so weak that it serves to legitimize Clarence Thomas’s corruption. It is literally worse than nothing.
The Fifth Circuit decided to obey the law, for a change.
Reason and basic human decency seemed to prevail at the Supreme Court’s big argument about whether domestic abusers should be armed.
Democrats need to be smarter while the GOP controls the Supreme Court.
Biden has a Plan B for student debt. Will it survive the Supreme Court?
The justices will decide if bump stocks, devices that effectively convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon, are legal.
The justices appear to have no idea when they should get involved with online disputes between government officials and their constituents.
The justices risk miring the entire federal judiciary in the content moderation wars.
The justices are seriously considering whether domestic abusers have a right to own a gun.
What should the Supreme Court do when gun laws are written by incompetent trolls?
Why the Supreme Court just smacked down one of the judiciary’s worst GOP partisans.
The Republican Party had a great day in the Supreme Court today. Voting rights did not.
The anger of entitled “good guys.”
The justices may have stepped away from their unrelenting hostility toward voting rights plaintiffs.