When Trump first ran for president in the 2016 cycle, a lot of people justified their support for him by insisting he didn’t really mean most of the outlandish stuff he was saying. But seven years and one attempted coup later, that logic doesn’t really fly anymore. And also, what he’s saying is really, really bad? Dahlia Lithwick considers why the toxic rhetoric is still going down so smoothly.

Lower court judges are trying to show Roberts and Kavanaugh who’s boss on voting rights, even though the high court just reaffirmed the Voting Rights Act’s core concept. Mark Joseph Stern explains how Trump’s........

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