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The Court recently saved part of the Voting Rights Act. But now it’s signaling it’ll kill it off soon enough.
The justice has one half of a really good idea.
Turns out only half of the Republican justices want to kill off the Voting Rights Act.
If the president loses this case, he will go to the Supreme Court to bail him out again.
Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.
And they didn’t even bother to explain themselves.
Trump wants to lay off thousands of federal employees. Now, he can.
Trying to keep track of all the chaos is overwhelming. So here’s a one-stop guide to the turmoil this Court caused.
The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.
The Republican justices’ decision fundamentally altered how public schools must operate.
This decision isn’t really about birthright citizenship.
The Republican justices just nuked much of federal Medicaid law, in order to spite Planned Parenthood.
The Court picked a hell of a time to give lawsuit immunity to federal law enforcement.
The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture.
What the hell did the Court just do to equal protection law?
Trump v. AFGE asks if the Republican justices’ new approach to separation of powers applies to Trump.
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
The rules don’t apply to Trump on the Court’s “shadow docket.”
Mexico’s attempt to cut off the flow of guns to drug cartels dies in the Supreme Court.
Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin could have disrupted workplaces, but it’s probably too narrow to matter to many workers.
Trump shut down the agency that protects civil servants from illegal firings. An appeals court has a plan to fix that.
Ames v. Ohio was an easy case, even if it touched upon contentious issues.
Maybe it’s unwise to pick a fight with the folks who control the Supreme Court?
Trump may kick half a million immigrants, from nations with unstable or authoritarian regimes, out of the US.
If this decision stands on appeal, it’s a big loss for Trump that will make it difficult for his trade war to continue.
The Court’s latest decision is a love letter to the abundance agenda.
The Republican justices draw a line in the sand — in an order that makes absolutely no sense.
One of the GOP justices must have defected in a case about religious schools, but the Court didn’t reveal who it was.
Libby v. Fecteau is an awful case about an anti-trans lawmaker who nonetheless needed to win.
The Supreme Court sided with Trump at the expense of Venezuelan immigrants.
The Birthright Citizenship argument wasn’t the only significant news out of the Supreme Court on Thursday.
It’s more complicated than it should be.
Much of the hearing focused on whether Richard Nixon can save Trump’s tariffs.
America’s most powerful legal organization confronts Trump’s incompetence.
The justices will soon decide whether to weaken the courts holding back Trump.
Whoops! Republicans have somehow managed to violate Bush v. Gore.
We’re about to get our first window into whether the judiciary will allow Trump’s trade war to continue.
Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.
To defend democracy, the courts must rule in favor of a lawmaker who bullied a high school student.