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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 4, 2025
Matt Ford
A Major Search and Seizure Case Is Coming to the Supreme Court
The Roberts court will have to resolve a significant Fourth Amendment dispute next term. What they decide could potentially expand the “community caretaker” doctrine for police.
June 3, 2025
Matt Ford
Trump’s War With Leonard Leo Could Expose a Conservative Legal Scam
The former Federalist Society power broker used the president to achieve judicial supremacy. Now all that work could get wrecked by the monster he turned loose.
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
Supreme Court Finally Does Something Good on Guns—for Now
The Supreme Court has declined to hear two high-profile challenges on gun laws.
May 30, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts “Botched” Supreme Court Ruling on TPS
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a scathing disssent, called out the rest of the court for allowing Trump’s harmful executive order to stand.
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 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Rips His Own Dark Money Buddy in Bonkers Rant Over Tariff Losses
Donald Trump tore into Leonard Leo, who recommended several of Trump’s Supreme Court picks.
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 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 27, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Help Him Deport People Wherever He Wants
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to make it easier for him to ignore due process rights as he deports people to South Sudan.
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 19, 2025
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Suddenly Get More Dangerous
As Trump’s intent to override the courts gets more obvious, a legal commentator who closely observes MAGA lawlessness explains why the Trump-MAGA strategy here is darker than you thought.
May 19, 2025
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses
As Trump’s hints that he will override the courts get worse, a close observer of MAGA lawlessness explains why the Trump-MAGA game plan here is more dangerous than it appears.
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.
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