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If Harris wins, the Republican Party will almost certainly be able to veto anything she does, thanks to our broken Constitution.
It’s unclear how the Supreme Court will resolve an unusually messy death penalty case.
The justices appear skeptical of “ghost guns.”
Supreme Court journalists should tell the truth about what’s going on at the Court.
The state’s Republican attorney general took the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to set aside Richard Glossip’s capital conviction.
The Court considers legalizing “ghost guns,” untraceable weapons that evade laws intended to keep guns away from criminals.
The justices return to Washington after an unforgivable betrayal.
There’s a real risk Trump would fill the courts with MAGA nihilists.
Harris and Winfrey spoke to the family of Amber Thurman, who died after doctors delayed abortion-related care.
Republicans want the Court to place the Green Party back on Nevada’s ballot after it was removed.
Preliminary data shows a negative impact on Black enrollment at some universities.
Oklahoma v. HHS could potentially blow up much of Medicare and Medicaid if the justices decide to wild out.
The Supreme Court’s Bruen decision will keep on creating chaos until it is overruled.
The Court’s decision in RNC v. Mi Familia Vota could have been much worse for democracy, even if it’s not all good.
A new Supreme Court case could potentially hand Arizona to Donald Trump.
The Court appeared to abandon Bostock v. Clayton County this weekend.
It is important to hang onto grudges against the Supreme Court.
Three Supreme Court justices want to drastically roll back the First Amendment. Trump could make it five.
Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.
The president is finally going after the high court, but his ideas are pretty weak.
Republican Justice Neil Gorsuch surprised most Court watchers by supporting trans rights in Bostock v. Clayton County. We’re about to find out if he actually meant it.
The Court’s first decision blocking student loan forgiveness was a lawless mess.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s threat to challenge Vice President Harris’s nomination in court should be frivolous. But who knows with this Supreme Court?
The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.
A few minutes before the Court held that Trump was allowed to do crimes, it did hand Republicans a meaningful loss.
The Court’s Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
Welcome to hell, SCOTUS.
The Grants Pass v. Johnson decision does not spell the end to fights over tent encampments in America.
SEC v. Jarkesy could render much of the federal government unable to function.
The leaked decision is not a victory for abortion rights.
Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.
No, MAGA judges don’t get to decide what the Biden administration is allowed to say.
Probably.
Given the Court’s Republican supermajority, this case is unlikely to end well for trans people.
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices’ own incompetence.
Most of the justices voted not to blow up the US tax code, but the opinion has bad news for progressive proponents of wealth taxes.
Nothing, unless they win the election.
On a party line vote, the Court legalized “bump stocks,” which convert semiautomatic guns into fully automatic ones.