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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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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.
June 27, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court’s Terrible Logic in Porn Ruling
The Supreme Court upheld a decision allowing age-verification laws for online porn.
June 27, 2025
Robert McCoy
Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor torched the Supreme Court for siding with Trump on birthright citizenship—and putting every civil right under attack.
June 27, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Sotomayor Rips SCOTUS for Causing Total “Chaos” in LGBTQ Books Case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the Supreme Court was actually enabling censorship.
June 27, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Supreme Court Rules Homophobic Books Bans in Schools Are OK
The Supreme Court determined parents can “opt out” of letting their children see LGBTQ books in the classroom.
June 27, 2025
Robert McCoy
Supreme Court Caves to Trump in Ominous Birthright Citizenship Ruling
The Supreme Court has just limited the ability of lower courts to rein in Donald Trump’s anti-constitutional orders.
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 26, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Ketanji Brown Jackson Rips Supreme Court for “Stymying” Civil Rights
The Court “will strip those South Carolinians—and countless other Medicaid recipients around the country—of a deeply personal freedom: the ‘ability to decide who treats us at our most vulnerable.’”
June 26, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Supreme Court Makes It Harder for Immigrants to Challenge Deportations
The ruling could make it easier for Donald Trump to deport more people.
June 26, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Supreme Court Just Gutted Planned Parenthood Funding
The Supreme Court’s decision could empower multiple states to slash funding to the crucial health services provider.
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