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June 3, 2025
Harry Litman
Why Trump Moved Leonard Leo From the Short List to the Sh*t List
Conservative legal scholars believe in things like originalism and the Second Amendment. Donald Trump’s OK with those, but he really believes in only one thing.
June 2, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Law Firms That Caved to Trump Suddenly Lose a Lot of Big Business
Remember all those law firms that struck a deal with Trump? Some major companies are ditching them.
May 30, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Tirade Over Tariff Ruling Accidentally Says Too Much
In suggesting that Congress is a mere nuisance that shouldn’t shape trade policy, Trump revealed his true, unspoken ambitions.
May 30, 2025
Michael Tomasky
The Only “Judicial Coup” in This Country Is by Trump Against Judges
The Trump administration is getting its butt kicked in court. That’s great. But an unprecedented assault on the judiciary is coming.
May 29, 2025
Timothy Noah
A Trade Court Stopped Trump’s Tariffs. Why Didn’t Congress?
The law is clear, and the legislature’s powers are unambiguous. But Republicans in Washington have fully knuckled under.
May 29, 2025
Grace Segers
Trump’s DOJ Has Put Reproductive Health Clinics Under Threat
With the administration’s refusal to enforce a key law for protecting clinics, abortion providers are bracing for increased disruptions.
May 28, 2025
Felipe De La Hoz
The Laws Propping Up Trump’s Masked Deportation Army
Across the country, unidentifiable law enforcement agents are snatching unsuspecting people off the streets where they live. But just because it’s beyond the pale doesn’t make it illegal.
May 28, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Supreme Court Wants to Crush Regulation—but Not the Fed
The legal reasoning on this point is unbelievably sloppy—even for this court.
May 24, 2025
Sam Russek
The Texas Judge Race That Republicans Are Suddenly Eyeing
Why is a little-known GOP candidate getting such big-name support in her effort to unseat Harris County’s Lina Hidalgo? It could be a dry run for the party’s next wave of messaging.
May 22, 2025
Matthew Wollin
The Obscure Legal Doctrine Guiding the Supreme Court Into Oblivion
The high court is stretching an interpretive philosophy to the breaking point to avoid confrontations with Trump.
May 21, 2025
Susan Rinkunas
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
The Silver State is the only one that criminalizes self-managed abortion. A bill to change that went nowhere.
May 17, 2025
Jason Linkins
Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers
Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly.
May 15, 2025
Matt Ford
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case Has the Supreme Court Baffled
The Trump administration’s brief against the Fourteenth Amendment is a bad one, and it naturally led to some tortured legal reasoning from his solicitor general.
May 15, 2025
Monica Potts
Trump’s Corruption Is a Huge Problem. But It’s a Hard Sell to Voters.
The scant polling evidence suggests that corruption is not a decisive factor for voters—yet there is a way for Democrats to leverage the president’s malfeasance in next year’s midterm elections.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Missouri Voters Overturned an Abortion Ban. Republicans Ignored Them.
State Republican senators have usurped the will of the voters on abortion.
May 15, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent
The president is declaring emergencies on everything from an “invasion” of immigrants to a mythical shortage of fossil fuel production. But it’s all just a ploy for him to act like a Roman emperor.
May 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Judge Sends Clear Message to Trump While Freeing Georgetown Scholar
A judge has ordered the release of Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow Dr. Badar Khan Suri.
May 14, 2025
Harry Litman
Trump Writes Congress out of the Constitution—and Congress Says Fine
The question regarding the Qatari plane deal isn’t whether it’s corrupt or illegal. It’s both of those. The question is, who will stop it?
May 9, 2025
Matt Ford
David Souter Changed Supreme Court Nominations Forever
The late justice was picked to be a reliable conservative vote on the court. But he drifted left—and the right has never forgotten it.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
John Roberts Sends Pathetic Message to Trump on Takeover of Courts
The chief Supreme Court justice only lightly pushed back on Donald Trump’s efforts to control the judiciary.
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