Voting Rights Claims Plunge in Wake of Supreme Court Decision
After the Supreme Court weakened a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, voting discrimination cases are not just harder to ...
GOP lawmakers urge Trump to respect federal court rulings
Senate Republicans are urging President Trump to respect the rulings of federal judges who have blocked his executive actions ...
Opinion: Signposts on the road to authoritarian rule
How do constitutional democracies die? The Trump administration is following a well-worn pathway toward autocracy ...
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Justices take up case on right to sue over mistaken SWAT raid
The Supreme Court will weigh in on whether a Georgia family whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team can sue the federal government for the error. Just over six hours after the justices ...
Barrett’s recusal signals hope for rule of law at the Supreme Court
Her recusal may imply, sub silentio, that other judges should disqualify themselves in similar cases, where a law school ...
Supreme Court Signals That Landmark Libel Ruling Is Secure
Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited ...
This Supreme Court Philosophy Could Constrain Trump
One of the judges whose court could hear a case challenging Trump’s agenda is Judge Jeffrey Sutton. He’s the chief judge of ...
How the ‘10th justice’ can help Trump’s agenda at the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump named three justices in his first term, establishing a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court ...
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Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. The Constitution could stand in the way
But his stated policy goal is in tension with the Constitution, and an executive order from the Trump White House attempting to achieve that goal could lead to an early Supreme Court test in his ...