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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.
A SCOTUS case about disabled travelers is likely to end in a whimper. That’s probably the best possible outcome.
Justices considering a case against the CFPB seem unlikely to trigger a second Great Depression.
Once again, the Supreme Court must deal with judicial arsonists on the Fifth Circuit.
Believe it or not, there are worse judges than Brett Kavanaugh. And now Brett needs to clean up their mess.
A rogue federal court effectively put the Republican Party in charge of social media, and now the justices have to deal with this mess.
The Alabama GOP will have to comply with a Supreme Court order striking down its racially gerrymandered map.
The Supreme Court hears a civil rights case straight out of a right-wing fever dream.
America’s Trumpiest court handed down a shockingly dangerous decision. The Supreme Court is likely, but not certain, to fix it.
Alabama’s racially gerrymandered maps are back before the Supreme Court, this time with a dollop of massive resistance.
Abortions will soon be available in Wisconsin, even though no one is sure it’s legal.
The age of travel bans is now upon us.
Republicans are losing their fight to ban drag — at least for now.
Wisconsin’s legislature is gerrymandered to ensure that Democrats will never win it. Republicans have a plan to keep it that way.
This decision is radioactive, even by the very low standards of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Imagine a Breitbart comments forum come to life and given immense power over innocent people. That’s Judge James Ho.
There are some terrible things that even this Supreme Court isn’t willing to do.
A far-right court just tried to ban an abortion drug. Here’s why you can ignore that decision.
The federal judiciary is a cesspool of partisanship, and now it’s being asked to oversee some of the most politically fraught criminal trials in American history.
The Court’s Republican majority has ground the Constitution’s establishment clause down to a nub.
The Court blocked a lower court order that would have made it easy for criminals to obtain so-called ghost guns.
The lawsuit seeking to transform Wisconsin into a democracy, explained.
Trump’s lawyers plan to argue he had a First Amendment right to subvert the 2020 election. He didn’t.
Trump will finally stand trial for his attempt to destroy US democracy.
The fight over “ghost guns” arrives on the Court’s shadow docket.
The Court ordered Alabama to draw a second congressional district where Black voters can elect their chosen candidate.
The Court’s decision will almost certainly have the same effect as a total ban on race-conscious admissions.
Legacy admits, athletic recruits, and the children of donors, faculty members, and VIPs still have a leg up under the Supreme Court’s new ruling.
The major questions doctrine, explained.
A new federal appeals court decision is a terrible blow to trans rights, and a potential earthquake in the fight for LGBTQ equality.
The Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in college admissions could embolden actors to challenge the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of employers.