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Trump’s attorney general pick has exactly one qualification

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court’s new decision tilting the midterms toward Republicans, explained

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Ian Millhiser

Alabama’s new congressional maps do the one thing the Supreme Court still forbids

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

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Brett Kavanaugh just won a surprising victory for racial justice

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

28.05.2026 9

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A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news for federal workers

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

26.05.2026 10

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The Supreme Court hands a rare victory to a death row inmate

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

21.05.2026 10

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The Supreme Court just handed down two surprisingly timid Voting Rights Act decisions

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19.05.2026 20

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Packing the Supreme Court is no longer a fringe idea

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19.05.2026 30

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Ian Millhiser

Mifepristone survives another Supreme Court scare — for now

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14.05.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

Virginia Democrats’ irresponsible new plan to save their gerrymander

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12.05.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The glaring error in the Virginia Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision

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08.05.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

Is Trump’s Justice Department trying to discredit itself?

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07.05.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

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06.05.2026 20

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The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud

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06.05.2026 30

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The Supreme Court gets thrown back into the abortion wars

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04.05.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

What the Supreme Court still has left to decide this term

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04.05.2026 10

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Ian Millhiser

The Voting Rights Act is all but dead. Prepare for maximum gerrymandering.

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29.04.2026 10

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The Supreme Court seems a bit nervous about letting the police track you with your phone

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27.04.2026 10

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The wide-ranging fallout from the Supreme Court’s new terrorism decision, explained

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22.04.2026 20

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The Supreme Court will decide if migrants can be sent back to war zones

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22.04.2026 40

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The Supreme Court will decide when the police can use your phone to track you

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20.04.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court could legalize moonshine, and ruin everything else

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14.04.2026 30

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It should be much easier to remove the president from office

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08.04.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

Democrats just locked down control of one of the most important courts in America

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08.04.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous

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02.04.2026 20

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Even this Supreme Court seems unwilling to end birthright citizenship

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01.04.2026 20

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Why an 8-1 Supreme Court just ruled in favor of anti-LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy”

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31.03.2026 10

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The sneaky way Trump’s lawyers are supercharging ICE

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27.03.2026 20

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The Supreme Court is scared it’s going to break the internet

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26.03.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court

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24.03.2026 50

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The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots

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23.03.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court case attempting to sabotage voting by mail, explained

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16.03.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law

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04.03.2026 70

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MAGA’s top lawyer just gave a sitting GOP senator the biggest scare of his career

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

04.03.2026 70

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The MAGA court decision that just supercharged ICE

Two judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a court dominated by MAGA Republicans, just handed the Trump administration...

10.02.2026 80

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Why a Republican Supreme Court just handed a victory to Democrats

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that California’s newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give...

06.02.2026 40

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Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis has broken the Justice Department

“I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” a lawyer representing Donald Trump’s government told a...

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Republicans are normalizing the one reform they should fear most

Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed legislation over the weekend that will add two seats to his state’s supreme court — seats that...

03.02.2026 30

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The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander

Last month, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority reinstated Texas’s Republican gerrymander after a lower federal court struck it down. The...

28.01.2026 10

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How long can ICE keep ignoring federal courts?

The chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, just issued a remarkable...

27.01.2026 10

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The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students

The Supreme Court is currently considering whether the Constitution requires public schools to out transgender students to their parents, even when...

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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man?

The video of the latest killing in Minneapolis is truly horrific. In it, about half a dozen men in military garb, who appear to be federal immigration...

25.01.2026 20

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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man?

The video of the latest killing in Minneapolis is truly horrific. In it, about half a dozen men in military garb, who appear to be federal immigration...

24.01.2026 20

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The Supreme Court is likely to hand Trump a rare loss on the Federal Reserve

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority ordinarily believe that President Donald Trump is allowed to fire virtually anyone who works for a federal...

22.01.2026 20

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The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive principles can both be true at...

21.01.2026 60

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The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights

There was never much reason to hope that the Supreme Court, which heard two cases on Tuesday asking whether transgender women have a right to play...

14.01.2026 20

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Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court is about to confront its most embarrassing decision

Judges rarely complain openly about the Supreme Court, for the same reason that most people do not publicly chastise their bosses. Attacking your boss...

13.01.2026 70

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Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week

On Sunday evening, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell posted an unusual video message to the nation, revealing that the Trump administration opened a...

13.01.2026 20

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The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible

On Sunday evening, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell revealed that the Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into him, nominally...

13.01.2026 30

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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal immigration officer who just killed a woman?

A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents...

08.01.2026 70

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