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Trump’s Judge Whisperer Promised to Take Our Laws Back to the 1930s
Constitutional law was very different in the 1930s from what it is today. In a word, it sucked.
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Who Cares About the Supreme Court’s ‘Legitimacy’?
Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.
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The Supreme Court Just Went Medieval on Executions and the Eighth Amendment
Why should Neil Gorsuch care if someone's essentially tortured to death? He'll never know that guy.
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Morris Dees, a Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Is Ousted
The Southern Poverty Law Center did not give a reason for firing Morris Dees, 82, but said that it was “committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization.”
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A Mother Learns the Identity of Her Child’s Grandmother. A Sperm Bank Threatens to Sue.
The results of a consumer genetic test identified the mother of the man whose donated sperm was used to conceive Danielle Teuscher’s daughter. Legal warnings soon followed.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized With 3 Broken Ribs
The justice fell on Wednesday night at the court and went to the hospital overnight, where she is under going observation and treatment.
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Playing the Long Game for the Supreme Court
Conservatives emerged from the Bork battle bent on winning control. It took 31 years. How will progressives respond?
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A Conservative Group’s Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern
The conservative legal movement has long cultivated law students and young lawyers, partly to ensure a deep bench of potential judicial nominees
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg slams Supreme Court confirmation hearings as a “highly partisan show”
"The Republicans move in lockstep, and so do the Democrats," the Notorious RBG said at George Washington University
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How the Trump Administration Is Remaking the Courts
Thanks to ruthless discipline — and a plan long in the making — the G.O.P is carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary.
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When the Supreme Court Lurches Right
What happens when the Supreme Court becomes significantly more conservative than the public?
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Kennedy’s Sadly and Unnecessarily Tainted Legacy
The Supreme Court’s latest term of almost uniformly hard-right decisions ended last week with the surprise announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy had decided to retire from the Court. What comes next is almost certain to be an ever more reactionary Court, with Justices Thomas and Gorsuch leading an empowered bloc toward reconsidering established doctrines across the board (abortion rights being only the tip of the iceberg).
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Neil Gorsuch Just Declared War on the Voting Rights Act
The justice believes the law does not prohibit racial gerrymandering. He’s dangerously wrong.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire From Supreme Court
The announcement gives President Trump the opportunity to create a solid five-member conservative majority and fundamentally change the direction of the court.
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In Bitterly Divided Ruling, Five Republican-Appointed Justices Uphold Trump’s Travel Ban
The majority refused to look beyond the text of the order to see Trump's flagrant anti-Muslim animus.
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Sotomayor’s Libertarian Defense of Private Property Puts Thomas and Alito to Shame
A case about a stolen motorcycle has major ramifications for Americans’ right to live free from police intrusions.
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The New Documentary About RBG Reveals She’s Not the Woman the Memes Make Her Out to Be
It was a different kind of radicalism that made the justice notorious.
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Opinion | The Supreme Court and the New Civil War
The battle between the White House and blue states raises questions about the limits of federal authority.
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Feds Raid Office of Trump Lawyer Who Paid Off Stormy Daniels. This Is a Big Deal.
The search of Michael Cohen's office, explained.
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Opinion | Justice Scalia’s Fading Legacy
Using legislative history to interpret laws once risked tiptoeing over the hot coals of his scorn. No longer. Now justices use it without apology.
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