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Why the Supreme Court Will Not Be Rescuing Trump in New York Anytime Soon

Tweet Share Share Comment On Thursday, Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in New York for unlawfully trying to...

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How Gullible Do Samuel Alito and Mike Johnson Think We Are?

Tweet Share Share Comment When the New York Times reported last week that Samuel Alito, an associate justice of the Supreme...

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The Supreme Court Is Going Off the Rails. It’s About to Get So Much Worse.

Tweet Share Share Comment The end of the Supreme Court term is already careening off the rails, with a backlog of major cases...

28.05.2024 20

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Jamie Raskin Explains What America Could Do to Fix the Supreme Court

Listen to Amicus: Apple Podcasts Spotify Tweet Share Share Comment As the Supreme Court cloaked itself...

23.05.2024 10

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What These Stories About Samuel Alito’s Absurd “Provocative” Flags Are Really About

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s easy to be furious at Samuel Alito, who has recently racked up yet another petty personal...

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America Is Captive to One Ridiculous Legal Theory That Dictates Our Laws on Guns, Abortion, and So Much More

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  How Originalism Ate the Law , a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined...

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The Constitution Is America’s Bible

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  How Originalism Ate the Law , a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined...

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The Absurd Case About Whether Doctors Can Let You Bleed Out in the ER Is Reaching SCOTUS

Listen to Amicus: Apple Podcasts Spotify Tweet Share Share Comment This week, the U.S. Supreme Court...

22.04.2024 20

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America Loves to Think Women Will Save Democracy While Doing Nothing to Make Women Full Citizens

Tweet Share Share Comment When Arizona’s conservative Supreme Court reinstated its near-total abortion ban, breathing life...

12.04.2024 20

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The Most Dangerous Time in 2024 Will Be Just After the Election

Tweet Share Share Comment The term “stochastic terror” became a big part of American political discourse following the...

09.04.2024 30

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The Low-Key Republican Officials Quietly Dismantling All of Our Rights

Tweet Share Share Comment One of the greatest destabilizers of democracy that almost nobody knows about is a little tax-exempt...

01.04.2024 2

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How to Finally Outrun Trump’s Efforts to Outrun the Law

Tweet Share Share Comment Brian Beutler had a very smart column last week pointing out something that should be obvious to...

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The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Biggest Fear

Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic...

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Can the Government Collaborate With Big Tech to Protect Elections?

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri today, a case that raises important...

18.03.2024 10

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Why the Supreme Court Is So Uniquely Awful at Tech Cases

Tweet Share Share Comment Among the election cases blowing up this Supreme Court term, several cases dealing with online speech...

12.03.2024 5

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The Alabama IVF Ban Conversation Is Missing the Bigger Point

Tweet Share Share Comment Two weeks ago, the Alabama Supreme Court determined that, for the purposes of its Wrongful Death of a...

05.03.2024 20

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Amy Coney Barrett’s Weird, Passive-Aggressive Trump Ballot Opinion

Tweet Share Share Comment To listen to the full episode , join Slate Plus . The Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump to...

05.03.2024 20

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The IVF Ruling Is About Who Gets to Be a Parent in America

Tweet Share Share Comment In its decision earlier this month interpreting Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act as...

28.02.2024 7

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How Will Trump Pay His Mounting Legal Bills?

Tweet Share Share Comment As more and more legal bills come due for the former president, you may be wondering: What do campaign...

26.02.2024 10

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Everyone Needs to Stop Freaking Out About Biden’s Age Immediately

Tweet Share Share Comment Because last week’s natterings unerringly become this week’s news, we are now trapped in a...

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Why the Trump Ballot Removal Case Was Worth It, Even if the Supreme Court Fails to Act

Tweet Share Share Comment Last Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson—a case raising the...

13.02.2024 20

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The Easy-to-Miss Detail at the Heart of Trump’s Big Court Defeat

Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decisively rejected Donald Trump’s bid to...

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The Supreme Court Can’t Let Fear of Trump Supporters Force Its Hand

Tweet Share Share Comment On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, also known as the 14th...

06.02.2024 70

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The Genius of E. Jean Carroll’s Strategy

Tweet Share Share Comment Last Friday, after deliberating for only a few hours, a Manhattan jury awarded journalist E. Jean...

31.01.2024 7

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Trump Had a Very Good Reason to Take the Stand Against E. Jean Carroll

Tweet Share Share Comment Former President and confirmed sexual abuser Donald Trump took the stand Thursday afternoon for a few...

26.01.2024 20

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The Trials Won’t Stop Donald Trump From Becoming President Again. Here’s What Might.

Tweet Share Share Comment Any conversation currently happening around legal accountability for Donald Trump is quickly caught up...

19.01.2024 20

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Here’s How the Modern Supreme Court Accrued So Much Power

Tweet Share Share Comment This week on Amicus, I spoke with Ben Johnson, an associate professor at the University of Florida...

17.01.2024 10

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What to Think About Jan. 6 Going Into Another Presidential Election

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s been three years since insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the...

06.01.2024 10

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The Supreme Court Did This to Itself

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court is on a collision course with itself, and it’s not clear that the justices even...

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What It’s Really Like to Challenge Texas’ Absurd Abortion Laws

Tweet Share Share Comment This past week, Texas resident Kate Cox tried to terminate a nonviable pregnancy that...

19.12.2023 10

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Texas Just Revealed the State’s Big Lie About Abortion Bans

Tweet Share Share Comment Here is a partial list of the not-medically-trained people who made the medical determination that...

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What Sandra Day O’Connor Did as the Swing Vote on the High Court

Tweet Share Share Comment Justice Sandra Day O’Connor died last Friday at the age of 93. She was a famously complicated icon...

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