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July 25, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Has Hit Rock Bottom
For the court’s conservative bloc, the line between upholding the Constitution and serving as Donald Trump’s personal attorneys has all but disappeared.
July 24, 2025
Matt Ford
How Brett Kavanaugh Is Putting His Thumb on the Scale for Trump
The tariff lawsuit has turned into a revealing window into how the legal sausage is made—and how the conservative justices are providing the president with the blueprints he needs to win.
July 18, 2025
Matt Ford
Gavin Newsom’s Retaliatory Redistricting Plan Is Good, Actually
The California governor is threatening to make a controversial tit-for-tat response if Texas Republicans redraw their state’s district maps to boost the GOP’s numbers in Congress.
July 16, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Says Laws Aren’t Real
The Roberts court majority seems bound and determined to undermine the American constitutional order.
July 15, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Most Worrisome Non-Decision
The Roberts Court has asked for reargument in a key redistricting case, a move that strongly suggests the conservative majority is about to whack the Voting Rights Act again.
July 15, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Small Army of Trump Sycophants Gunning to be the Next Fed Chair
Kevin Hassett is toadying hard to win the president’s favor. But don’t count out Kevin Warsh or Scott Bessent just yet in this latest White House blandishment derby.
July 14, 2025
Robert McCoy
Sotomayor Warns SCOTUS Is “Willfully Blind” to Trump Lawlessness
In a blistering dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed the Supreme Court for allowing Trump to destroy the Department of Education.
July 11, 2025
Robert McCoy
Trump’s First Layoffs After Massive Supreme Court Victory Are Here
The Supreme Court just gave Trump greater power to overhaul the federal government—and he’s already using it.
July 11, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Border Czar Unveils Wild Plan for Deporting People
Tom Homan revealed the government is looking for more random countries to send people.
July 10, 2025
Robert McCoy
Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order via SCOTUS Loophole
A federal judge has shut down Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order, despite the Supreme Court’s previous ruling.
July 8, 2025
Robert McCoy
KBJ Rips “Senseless” Supreme Court Decision on Trump’s Mass Firings
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her colleagues for greenlighting Trump’s “legally dubious” layoffs in the federal government.
July 3, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Just Teed Up a Major Ruling on Transgender Athletes
The justices agreed to consider challenges to two state bans on trans athletes in women’s sports.
July 3, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Supreme Court Prepares to Rip Away Trans Rights in Two New Cases
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear major cases on trans women and girls in sports.
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 2, 2025
Robert McCoy
Wisconsin Supreme Court Repeals 1849 Abortion Ban in Major Victory
A nearly 200-year-old abortion ban has been overturned in Wisconsin, just months after the state elected a liberal justice to the court.
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 30, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Could Change Elections as We Know It
The Supreme Court has just agreed to hear a Republican challenge to a campaign finance law.
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 27, 2025
Robert McCoy
Pam Bondi Struggles to Answer Key Question on Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump’s attorney general struggled to explain the new rules on birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court ruling.
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