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July 3, 2025
Matt Ford
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Heterodox Critiques of SCOTUS’s Right Wing
The newest justice has emerged as the court’s left-wing iconoclast, unafraid to break unwritten rules in challenging her conservative colleagues’ ideological project.
July 2, 2025
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Court Battles: A Supreme Court Update
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July 1, 2025
Matt Ford
How Religious Pluralism Lost at the Supreme Court
The conservative justices’ ruling in a case involving LGBTQ-themed books in public schools is likely to benefit larger religious groups and ostracize smaller ones.
June 27, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Three Victories in One Ruling
The conservative justices’ ruling in the birthright citizenship case unshackles the president from lower court rulings that curbed his unconstitutional abuses of power.
June 26, 2025
Matt Ford
The Most Fearful Part of the Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood Ruling
The conservative majority paved the way for Republican-led states to defund the health care provider. But Clarence Thomas hinted at harsher civil rights disruptions to come.
June 25, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Picks Trump Over the Rule of Law
The high court has dealt a savage blow to due process and has rewarded the administration for defying court orders.
June 24, 2025
Katherine Kelaidis
MAGA Is Waging an All-Out War on Family Liberty
From forced births to bans on gender-affirming care for minors, the new authoritarian right seeks total state control over intimate family decisions.
June 21, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier
The president just won a temporary victory in court on his troops in Los Angeles. His unhinged reaction to it reveals the true depths of his malevolent intentions toward—well, us.
June 20, 2025
Thom Hartmann
Senate GOP’s Remedy for Anti-Trump Lawsuits? Make Them Impossible.
There’s a provision in the Senate’s “big, beautiful bill” that would make plaintiffs against the federal government post huge bonds to file lawsuits. And they’re proud of this crap.
June 19, 2025
Harry Litman
Donald Trump Is Already Waging War: Against Blue America
The National Guard in Los Angeles, the arrests of Democratic politicians, the prosecution of Vance Boelter—the aim is to create chaos in blue states and use it as a pretext.
June 18, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Anti-Transgender Ruling Is a Tortured Mess
While the court’s ruling was not as immediately disastrous as it might have been, it sets the stage for a parade of horribles in the years to come.
June 17, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Takes Up a Major Case on Anti-Abortion Clinics
A group of crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey is looking to thwart a state investigation into their potentially deceptive practices. It could have national consequences.
June 17, 2025
Felipe De La Hoz
The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention
The Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component.
June 16, 2025
Michael Tomasky
America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point—and There’s No Going Back
Why the events of this past weekend should worry everyone who wants a peaceful democracy
June 11, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
In Defense of Confrontational Protesters
Some pundits are urging protesters in Los Angeles not to resist the militarization of their city. That’s easy to say when ICE isn’t snatching up your friends and family members.
June 9, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Pam Bondi’s Brother Suffers Crushing Blow in D.C. Bar Election
Brad Bondi wasn’t anywhere close to winning this election.
June 6, 2025
Matt Ford
The Real Reason Trump Has Created This Autopen Scandal
The latest in manufactured controversies has less to do with legal victories over the Biden administration than it does with creating content for the president’s media allies.
June 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
SCOTUS Sides With Straight Woman in Sexuality Discrimination Case
The Supreme Court just made it easier for a a majority group that historically has not faced oppression to claim they are being discriminated against.
June 5, 2025
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Kim Wehle
Trump’s Pardon Power Isn’t as Absolute as He Thinks
The president believes that he has a free and unencumbered hand to overrule the federal judiciary. But the courts have been quietly checking him.
June 5, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
Trump’s Vision of Government: Members Only
The right is busy creating two Americas: one for MAGA and one for the rest of us. Those of us who aren’t in their big club won’t have the same rights—and will undoubtedly suffer under this regime.
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