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When the Supreme Court Doesn't Care About Facts
The conservative justices seem prepared to decide Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a case that could harm public sector unions, without so much as a factual record.
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Every lawyer in Utah received a picture of naked breasts from the state's Bar association
Just after 3 p.m. on Monday, all attorneys in the state of Utah received a shocking email from the bar association.
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'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Up About MeToo, Voting Rights, and Millennials
The Supreme Court justice talks #MeToo, Millennials, and the cases she’d like to see overturned.
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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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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 | 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When the Supreme Court Lurches Right
What happens when the Supreme Court becomes significantly more conservative than the public?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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