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The Supreme Court Might Still Screw Up Birthright Citizenship

At oral arguments this week, a few questions from the justices ought to remind observers that it’s possible to rule against Trump while inviting other sorts of legislative or legal challenges to the policy.

The Justices Aren’t Buying Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship

A clear majority of the Supreme Court on Wednesday was unimpressed by the president’s attempt to reinterpret the Constitution.

How to Reclaim America From the Scammers and Frauds

Trump is turning the country into a huckster’s paradise. The next Democratic president will need to clean house.

Where Do Conservative Supreme Court Justices Get Their Information?

The recent oral arguments in an important voting rights case suggest that the right wing of the high court has a suspect media diet.

Will the Supreme Court Make Bribery Even Easier?

The high court’s campaign to provide cover to the quid pro quo arrangement of corrupt politicians seems set to continue.

There Will Be No Post-Presidential Peace for Donald Trump

The president and his allies will face impeachments, lawsuits, and maybe even The Hague.

Team USA’s Soulless Militarism Was Their Undoing in the WBC

In the final of this surprisingly thrilling and utterly joyful World Baseball Classic, Venezuela outplayed their sour opponents.

How a Bank Robbery Case Became SCOTUS’s Next Big Fourth Amendment Test

Police in Virginia located a suspect by demanding location-specific cell phone data from Google. Did that violate his constitutional rights?

The Supreme Court Has Another Tribal Sovereignty Test on Its Hands

In McGirt v. Oklahoma, the high court opened the door to an expansive view of tribal territory. The State of Oklahoma has been trying to shut it ever since.

How Congress Set the Stage for Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

Generations of lawmakers, straying from the Founders’ ideals—and fears—led inevitably to this era of unaccountable warmongering.

The Supreme Court Has Abandoned All Pretense

For the court’s conservatives, the only consistency is their inconsistency. Still, things rather conspicuously keep going the GOP’s way.

The Catholic Bishops Who Wrote a Scorching Brief Against Trump

The president’s take on birthright citizenship doesn’t pass legal muster. To hear the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops tell it, it’s a moral affront as well.

Clarence Thomas Has Lost the Plot

The associate justice’s dissent in the tariffs case deserves some extra attention, because it is hopelessly uncoupled from law, history, and the Constitution.

The Judges and Juries Saving the Republic From Trump

While Capitol Hill lawmakers and the Supreme Court have failed to curb the administration’s authoritarianism, others are stepping into the breach to protect the Constitution.

The Supreme Court Fractures While Striking Down Trump’s Tariff Policy

It may look like the justices made a clean break with the president, but the mess the conservative bloc made for itself raises some major questions.

The Anti-Homelessness Plot Against the First Amendment

If the Supreme Court takes up Taylor v. Singleton, it could be the sum of all fears for the most vulnerable Americans.

The Second Amendment Failed Alex Pretti

The Minneapolis nurse’s death at the hands of federal agents has exposed the contradictions at the center of the gun rights debate.

The Supreme Court Isn’t Joining Trump’s War on the Fed

The justices have largely let the president take a wrecking ball to the civil service, but they finally found an agency they deem too sacred for him to desecrate.

The Supreme Court Just Got Caught in Its Gun Rights Contradictions

The high court ruled that gun restrictions must pass a “history and tradition” test to be valid. Then the state of Hawaii called its bluff.

Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion

The White House’s top policy aide hates a future that doesn’t center around him.

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