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May 22, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Four Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Read the First Amendment
The Supreme Court has deadlocked on the question of religious charter schools, thanks to four justices who didn’t bother reading what the First Amendment says about separation of church and state.
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 16, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Supreme Court Finally Does Something About Trump’s Deportations
The Supreme Court has blocked Trump from restarting his mass deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
May 16, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Freaks After SCOTUS Trashes His Birthright Citizenship Arguments
Donald Trump apparently can’t handle the fact that the justices thought his arguments were bad.
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
Malcolm Ferguson
Supreme Court Justice Rips Into Trump DOJ: “Assume You’re Dead Wrong”
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was unconvinced by the government’s arguments on birthright citizenship.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Georgia Is Forcing a Brain-Dead Woman to Complete Her Pregnancy
Adriana Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain-dead. Georgia bans abortion at around six weeks.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Justice Department Makes Insane Claim About Obeying Court Orders
Donald Trump’s lawyers made the argument to the Supreme Court during a hearing on birthright citizenship.
May 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Calls U.S. “STUPID” in Wild Rant on Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump posted a screed against birthright citizenship just hours before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the constitutional right.
May 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Legal Win Comes Back to Bite Him With Arrested Wisconsin Judge
Judge Hannah Dugan is using Donald Trump’s own arguments against him in her case.
May 9, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Stephen Miller Has a Dangerous New Idea About Habeas Corpus
The Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to allow immigrants slated for deportation to file habeas petitions contesting their potential removal.
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.
May 6, 2025
Matt Ford
Transgender Rights Are in Grave Peril at the Supreme Court
The high court’s decision to uphold Trump’s ban on trans soldiers points to worrisome outcomes in pending cases that affect these vulnerable Americans.
May 2, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Is Declaring War on Secularism
The high court’s recent run at rewriting the Constitution has come for the establishment clause.
May 1, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Stephen Miller Has Full-Blown Temper Tantrum Over Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Miller snapped when asked if the Trump administration was working to bring Abrego Garcia back.
April 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Goes Full Dictator With Grim Warning About Courts
Donald Trump is dead set on accomplishing his agenda.
April 30, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Tirade at Reporter Wrecks His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
Watch Trump lose it under tough, persistent questioning from Terry Moran of ABC.
April 30, 2025
Matt Ford
Will the Supreme Court Save an Apache Sacred Site?
The Native plaintiffs have won over a wide variety of allies to their case. But for some reason, the high court is dragging its feet in making a decision.
April 28, 2025
Matt Ford
The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts
The conservative legal movement’s latest broadside against the judiciary is likely to fail, but it illuminates how far they’re willing to go to dismantle the rule of law.
April 22, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Attacks the Supreme Court in Most Alarming Comments Yet
Upset with the judicial system’s checks on his power, Donald Trump has launched a blatant attack on the Supreme Court.
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