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The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime, explained

The Supreme Court will hear a case later this month that could make life drastically worse for homeless Americans. It also challenges one of the most...

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January 6 insurrectionists had a great day in the Supreme Court today

The Supreme Court spent about an hour and a half on Tuesday morning arguing over whether to make it much harder for the Justice Department to...

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The Supreme Court’s confusing new anti-trans decision, explained

The Supreme Court handed down a strange set of opinions on Monday evening, which accompanied a decision that largely reinstates Idaho’s ban on...

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The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe . The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court...

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The Supreme Court will decide if states can ban lifesaving abortions

Moyle v. United States should have been a very easy case. A federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), requires nearly all...

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Why Republican federal judges are fighting among themselves

A federal court is picking an unusual fight with one of the federal judiciary’s governing bodies — one with implications for literally all aspects...

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Even the Supreme Court seems sick of its abortion pills case

The Supreme Court appeared listless, even bored, during Tuesday’s oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine , the case asking the...

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The Supreme Court will weigh in on the January 6 insurrection. What could possibly go wrong?

According to the Justice Department, Joseph Fischer texted his boss before the January 6 insurrection to tell him that he might need to post bail. The...

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The Supreme Court’s abortion pills case, explained

For more than a year, a specter named Matthew Kacsmaryk has loomed over abortion access in the United States. Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for Christian...

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The Supreme Court’s dishonest new border decision, explained

The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday allowing an unconstitutional Texas state immigration law to go into effect. The case is known...

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Brett Kavanaugh rides to the Biden administration’s defense in a big First Amendment case

There are several recent signs that the federal judiciary’s center right is losing patience with its far right. Last week, a policymaking body...

18.03.2024 3

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The Supreme Court’s puzzling decision to allow the government to ban drag shows, explained

The Supreme Court will allow a public Texas university’s unconstitutional ban on drag shows to remain in effect, in a decision announced Friday. ...

15.03.2024 4

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Republicans will no longer get to handpick their judges when they sue Biden

Plaintiffs hoping to reshape federal or state policies will no longer be allowed to choose which judge will hear their case, at least in federal...

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The Supreme Court may let Texas get away with a totally unconstitutional deportation law

For well more than a century, the federal government has enjoyed near exclusive authority over immigration policy, while states have largely been...

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The NRA has a case before the Supreme Court that it absolutely should win

The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Monday, March 18, that are often referred to as “jawboning” cases — that is, cases where the government...

11.03.2024 10

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Do Americans still have a right to privacy?

When the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade , it swore up and down that its decision didn’t necessarily have any implications for other rights....

10.03.2024 20

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The Supreme Court just crushed any hope that Trump could be removed from the ballot

On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a sweeping victory for Donald Trump — his second in less than a week, after the court placed Trump’s...

04.03.2024 10

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The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump

The Supreme Court has ordered the most important of former President Donald Trump’s four criminal trials to be put on hold indefinitely. It’s an...

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How Mitch McConnell broke Congress

Measured by how many bills he successfully ushered into law, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who announced Wednesday that he will step...

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The Supreme Court just handed Trump an astonishing victory

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Trump’s DC criminal trial, the one concerning his attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election, must be...

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How Amy Coney Barrett could save us from fully legal automatic weapons

“Intuitively, I am entirely sympathetic to your argument,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett told Brian Fletcher, the Justice Department lawyer defending...

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The Supreme Court appeared lost in a massive case about free speech online

The Supreme Court appears inclined to reinstate Texas and Florida laws seizing control of much of the internet — both of which are currently blocked...

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The Alabama Supreme Court opinion holding that embryos are children, explained

The moment the US Supreme Court released its decision overruling Roe v. Wade , pretty much everyone who closely follows constitutional law wondered...

21.02.2024 40

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Justice Alito is mad that George W. Bush was too woke

The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will not hear Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board , a lawsuit attacking a school...

20.02.2024 4

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The Supreme Court will decide whether to let civilians own automatic weapons

On February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively make it legal for civilians to own automatic weapons capable of firing as...

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The Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and Twitter

In mid-2021, about a year before he began his longstanding feud with the biggest employer in his state, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis...

15.02.2024 4

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The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to sabotage Trump’s most important criminal trial

The Supreme Court is about to have two Trump-sized problems to deal with. Last Thursday, the justices heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson , the...

13.02.2024 30

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The Supreme Court sure sounds eager to put Trump back on the ballot

Two things were obvious Thursday morning in the Supreme Court, where the justices pondered whether former President Donald Trump is disqualified from...

08.02.2024 3

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Can Colorado disqualify Trump from its ballot? 4 ways the Supreme Court might rule.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson , the case asking whether former President Donald Trump’s role in the...

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The Supreme Court is about to decide whether to sabotage Trump’s election theft trial

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court handed down two widely anticipated documents rejecting a particularly unpersuasive legal argument by former...

06.02.2024 3

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Trump’s legal arguments for staying on the ballot are embarrassingly weak

Well, the Supreme Court fight over our insurrectionist former president is finally upon us. On Thursday, the Court will hear oral arguments in Trump...

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The Supreme Court weighs whether to end affirmative action at West Point

Last June, the Supreme Court handed down a sweeping decision abolishing race-conscious admissions programs at nearly every college and university in...

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The legal fight over whether Texas can seize control of the border, explained

Last Monday, the Supreme Court made its first foray into a longstanding conflict over who is in charge of the United States-Mexico border: the United...

27.01.2024 5

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A new Supreme Court case threatens to take away your right to protest

A renegade federal appeals court — one dominated by MAGA-aligned judges who routinely read the law in ways that even the current, very conservative...

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The Supreme Court says no, Texas can’t use razor wire to restrain federal agents

One of the most well-settled questions in US constitutional law is that duly enacted federal laws overcome all state laws that conflict with them, and...

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Oklahoma is begging the Supreme Court not to make it kill a man

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Glossip v. Oklahoma , a long-simmering death penalty case where the state’s Republican...

23.01.2024 10

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John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett are unsure if they should be in charge of everything

Four justices appeared absolutely determined, on Wednesday, to overrule one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in the Court’s entire...

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The Supreme Court is running away from transgender rights cases

For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court unexpectedly turned away a case asking it to diminish the rights of young transgender Americans...

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A new Supreme Court case about flooding has weirdly high stakes for Donald Trump

On the surface, the issues presented by Devillier v. Texas — a Supreme Court case brought by Texas landowners who claim the state should...

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The Supreme Court cases asking the justices to put themselves in charge of everything, explained

On January 17, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce —...

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The Supreme Court’s new, nightmare abortion cases, explained

The Supreme Court handed down two significant orders on Friday evening. The first announces that the Court will hear a case asking whether former...

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The Fifth Circuit just made it even more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

On Tuesday, a notoriously right-wing federal appeals court attempted to rewrite a federal law that, among other things, requires most US hospitals to...

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The Supreme Court arguments for (and against) removing Trump from the ballot, explained

Shortly before Christmas, the Colorado Supreme Court dropped a bombshell opinion ruling that former President Donald Trump must be removed from the...

03.01.2024 3

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In a big victory for Trump, the Supreme Court tells Jack Smith to go away

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Everything you need to know about the court order removing Trump from the ballot

The Supreme Court is now almost certain to hear a case about whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to run for president again, and no one...

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The Supreme Court case that could shut down Trump’s election theft trial, explained

In 1970, then-President Richard Nixon briefly authorized an illegal plan to spy on left-wing activists within the United States. His defense is rarely...

14.12.2023 3

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The Supreme Court will hear its biggest abortion case since it overruled Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will give a full hearing to a long-simmering dispute over whether far-right federal courts may ban...

13.12.2023 5

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The sinister court decision denying Kate Cox an abortion, explained

On Monday evening, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, a woman who says she is “at high risk for severe complications threatening her...

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The Supreme Court hands down a small but unexpected victory for LGBTQ people

In an unexpected move, the Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear a lawsuit challenging Washington state’s restrictions on an...

11.12.2023 1

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Billionaires had a surprisingly bad day in the Supreme Court today

The Supreme Court spent much of Tuesday morning beating up Andrew Grossman, a lawyer asking the justices to revive a long-defunct limit on...

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