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June 18, 2024
Parker Molloy
Alito-Taper Lauren Windsor Is No James O’Keefe. Not Even Close.
People can and should debate Windsor’s methods. What’s beyond debate is that she reveals important truths we’re better off knowing.
June 14, 2024
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Just Made Future Mass Shootings Even Deadlier
The court’s bump-stock ruling is a shell game.
June 14, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
Republicans Can—and Will—Keep Trying to Ban Mifepristone
The Supreme Court shot down a lousy argument from a fabricated plaintiff. But anti-abortion groups still have other paths to ban medication abortion.
June 13, 2024
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Shut Down the Fifth Circuit’s War on Abortion Drugs
Thanks, Justice Kavanaugh!
June 12, 2024
Matt Ford
The Real Lesson of the SCOTUS Tapes
Hint: It comes from what Roberts said, not Alito.
June 9, 2024
Matt Ford
The Right’s Truly Incredible Argument for Weakening Consumer Safety
A baby products company and an anti-woke activist group are trying to weaken a critical consumer watchdog agency. If one of their cases reaches the Supreme Court, we’re all in trouble.
June 6, 2024
Steve Morris
The False—and Potentially Misleading—Promise of Restoring
Roe
Biden and the Democrats say they’ll codify abortion rights nationwide if voters give them full control of Washington. But can they really deliver?
June 4, 2024
Matt Ford
Texas Republicans’ Brazen Plan to Control the State Forever
The state GOP just approved a party platform that would effectively ensure one-party rule.
May 31, 2024
Matt Ford
Samuel Alito Knew Exactly What That Upside-Down American Flag Meant
As he made clear in a Supreme Court opinion in 2022, he’s well aware of how private intentions and public perception can differ when it comes to flying flags.
May 31, 2024
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
The Alito Scandal Just Got Worse. A Dem Senator Explains What’s Next.
As Chief Justice John Roberts refuses to meet with Democrats, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse addresses whether hearings involving Samuel Alito’s upside-down flag would be an appropriate next step.
May 30, 2024
Matt Ford
San Francisco Is Handing the Right-Wing Supreme Court a Gift
The city, joined by some odd bedfellows from U.S. industry, is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s water quality enforcement. And it could spell trouble for the rest of America.
May 29, 2024
David Masciotra
Ted Kennedy Warned Us About Samuel Alito. He Was Ignored.
The Supreme Court justice’s flag controversy should come as no surprise to anyone who paid attention to his nomination hearings in 2006.
May 23, 2024
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Is a Big Fan of Racial Gerrymandering
In a Supreme Court decision siding with South Carolina Republicans, the right-wing justice took the opportunity to attack landmark civil rights rulings that protected Black voters’ political representation.
May 22, 2024
Matt Ford
A Federal Judge Just Called Out the Supreme Court
Carlton Reeves did not pull any punches in criticizing qualified immunity—and demanding that the justices finally do something about it.
May 21, 2024
Matt Ford
Samuel Alito Has Fox News Brain
The fact that the American flag flew upside down at his house not long after January 6 further confirms his warped worldview.
May 20, 2024
Michael Tomasky
Alito and Thomas Aren’t Really Jurists. They’re Theocratic Leninists.
The Supreme Court justices are intent on using maximal power to fundamentally reorder society.
May 16, 2024
Matt Ford
Even the Right-Wing Supreme Court Has Its Limits
Led by Clarence Thomas, the justices overwhelmingly rejected an outlandish conservative attempt to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
May 16, 2024
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Emmanuel Guerisoli
The “Day One” Dictatorship
On the law in a fascist America
May 16, 2024
Greg Sargent
The Saga of Clarence Thomas and His Luxury RV Takes a Disturbing Turn
In a new letter, Democratic senators press the associate justice on whether he’s paid off the loan for that famous R.V.—and whether he may have ducked federal tax obligations.
May 15, 2024
Matt Ford
He Committed a Double Murder at 16. Does He Deserve to Die in Prison?
Arizona wants to keep Lonnie Allen Bassett locked up for good—despite a Supreme Court ruling that abolished mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles.
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