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Don’t Believe John Roberts. The Supreme Court Just Made the President a King.

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority fundamentally altered American democracy on Monday,...

01.07.2024 7

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Elena Kagan Is Horrified by What the Supreme Court Just Did. You Should Be Too.

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court fundamentally altered the way that our federal government functions on Friday,...

28.06.2024 6

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The Supreme Court’s New Leaked Abortion Draft Reeks of Cynicism

Tweet Share Share Comment On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court inadvertently released a draft of its decision in Moyle v....

27.06.2024 20

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The Supreme Court Gave Biden a Chance to Fight Disinformation. It’s Too Little, Too Late.

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court is losing its patience with hyperpartisan lower court judges who are eager to...

26.06.2024 6

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This Clarence Thomas Dissent Reveals His Favorite Tactic for Constitutional Mayhem

Tweet Share Share Comment Justice Clarence Thomas is a master at the art of bogus history—rewriting the past to give the...

25.06.2024 5

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Transgender Rights Advocates’ Last, Best Hope Is Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will decide whether states have the constitutional...

24.06.2024 5

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The Supreme Court Walks Back Clarence Thomas’ Guns Extremism

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court upheld a federal law disarming domestic abusers on Friday, significantly narrowing a...

21.06.2024 5

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Why Brett Kavanaugh Shot Down a Fake Case That Would Have Blown Up the Tax Code

Tweet Share Share Comment On Thursday, the Supreme Court passed up an opportunity to implode the United State tax code on the...

20.06.2024 6

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Amy Coney Barrett Sounds Fed Up With Clarence Thomas’ Sloppy Originalism

Tweet Share Share Comment A minor dispute over a trademark registration erupted into a heated battle over originalism at the...

18.06.2024 40

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Clarence Thomas’ Opinion Legalizing Bump Stocks Is Indefensible

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority carved a huge loophole into the federal prohibition...

14.06.2024 30

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Those Secret Recordings of Alito and Roberts Revealed the True Stakes of the 2024 Election

Tweet Share Share Comment Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito joined the Supreme Court in the mid-2000s as...

13.06.2024 50

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The Supreme Court Has Planned for a June So Awful It Will Be Impossible to Keep Up

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court is about to drown us in a deluge of explosive and massively consequential decisions...

11.06.2024 30

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A Crisis Pregnancy Center Is Accusing a Former Patient of Domestic Terrorism. She’s Fighting Back.

Tweet Share Share Comment Hannah Kamke wanted medical care—she wanted to confirm whether she was pregnant, and if so, she...

28.05.2024 30

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The Supreme Court Just Greenlighted Racial Gerrymandering. It Didn’t Go Far Enough for Clarence Thomas.

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision on Thursday in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP is a...

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A Federal Judge Delivers Another Urgent, Scathing Warning About the Supreme Court

Tweet Share Share Comment It takes a lot of courage for a lower court judge to criticize the Supreme Court, but Judge Carlton...

22.05.2024 30

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The Judicial Arsonists Went Too Far for the Conservative Justices This Time

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court delivered a vehement smackdown to a rogue and lawless lower court on Thursday, upholding the Consumer...

16.05.2024 40

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Liberals Had a Dream to Fix the Supreme Court. It’s Time to Admit the Truth.

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  How Originalism Ate the Law , a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. During her...

08.05.2024 10

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Liberals Had a Dream to Fix the Supreme Court. It’s Time to Admit the Truth.

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  How Originalism Ate the Law , a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined...

08.05.2024 40

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A Supreme Court Case About the Rights of Homeless People Went Better Than Expected

Tweet Share Share Comment No one expects the federal judiciary to solve the nation’s worsening homelessness crisis: For better...

23.04.2024 50

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Hundreds of Jan. 6 Prosecutions—Including Donald Trump’s—Are Suddenly in Peril at the Supreme Court

Tweet Share Share Comment Will the Supreme Court jeopardize the prosecution of more than 350 defendants involved with Jan. 6,...

17.04.2024 30

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I Was a Skeptic of the Stormy Daniels Prosecution. I Was Wrong.

Tweet Share Share Comment When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought criminal charges against Donald Trump in 2023, I...

15.04.2024 90

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She Fled the Nazis. Reagan Republicans Put Her on the Federal Bench. 40 Years Later, She’s Still Surprising Everyone.

04.04.2024 20

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The Giant Threat Lurking Behind Florida’s November Abortion Vote

Tweet Share Share Comment The Florida Supreme Court seemed to offer a compromise Monday when it greenlit the state’s six-week...

03.04.2024 40

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Florida Will Now Be Ground Zero for the Abortion Wars in 2024

Tweet Share Share Comment The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state’s right to ban abortion on Monday, with devastating...

02.04.2024 10

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Even the Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Fed Up With the Garbage Coming Out of the 5th Circuit

Tweet Share Share Comment What happens when a lawless judge and a terrible appeals court embrace the dopiest First Amendment...

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Here’s the Real Person to Blame for that GOP Prosecutor Who Shivved Biden

Tweet Share Share Comment When special counsel Robert Hur announced his decision last month not to prosecute Joe Biden for his...

13.03.2024 30

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Supreme Court Inadvertently Reveals Confounding Late Change in Trump Ballot Ruling

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to keep Donald Trump on Colorado’s ballot was styled as a...

05.03.2024 100

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The Supreme Court’s “Unanimous” Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5–4 Disaster

Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Colorado Supreme Court decision removing Donald...

04.03.2024 20

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The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Exactly What He Wanted

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court has all but guaranteed that Donald Trump will not face trial for his efforts to...

29.02.2024 200

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Amy Coney Barrett Gets to Decide How Automatic American Weapons Can Be

Tweet Share Share Comment On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire on the crowds at a music festival in Las Vegas from the 32nd...

29.02.2024 6

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Brett Kavanaugh—Yes, Really—Just Stood Up For the Internet as We Know It

Tweet Share Share Comment Can Florida and Texas weaponize conservative paranoia over Big Tech’s alleged liberal bias to...

27.02.2024 20

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Turns Out It’s Really Useful to Have a Former Public Defender on the Supreme Court

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court delivered a remarkable victory for the rights of criminal defendants on Wednesday,...

22.02.2024 60

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Alabama’s Assault on IVF Is Even Worse Than It Sounds

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade immediately diminished the quality of...

21.02.2024 30

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Sam Alito Launches Broadside Against Marriage Equality in Homophobic Juror Case

Tweet Share Share Comment Does the First Amendment protect anti-gay bigots’ ability to serve on a jury in cases involving the...

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The Supreme Court Left No Doubt About How It’ll Rule in the Trump Ballot Case

Tweet Share Share Comment The Supreme Court is not going to let Colorado, or any other state, remove Donald Trump from the...

08.02.2024 10

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Some of the Most Obstructionist GOP Legislators in the Country Just Got Their Comeuppance

Tweet Share Share Comment Last year, 10 Republican state senators in Oregon walked out of the Legislature for six weeks to...

02.02.2024 30

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GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations

Tweet Share Share Comment This week, Republican governors across the country escalated their conflict with the Biden...

26.01.2024 7

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What’s Going On With Brett Kavanaugh?

Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday, the Supreme Court affirmed the federal government’s supremacy over the states, a...

24.01.2024 90

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The Supreme Court Is Now Complicit in Texas’ Armed Standoff With the Feds

Tweet Share Share Comment Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is inciting a conflict between Border Patrol and the state’s National Guard...

18.01.2024 4

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The Supreme Court Is About to Seize Way More Power From Democratic Presidents

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  Opening Arguments , Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court...

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Trump Judge Spanks Ron DeSantis for Retaliating Against a Democratic Rival

Tweet Share Share Comment Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis faced a sharp, surprising rebuke from a conservative appeals court on...

12.01.2024 60

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The Supreme Court Is Teed Up to Decide Its Biggest Abortion Case Since Dobbs

Tweet Share Share Comment When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the...

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Panera’s “Lemonade That Kills You” Is Really a Story About Our Broken Country

Tweet Share Share Comment Will Panera’s Charged Lemonade kill you? That’s a reasonable conclusion to draw from media...

08.12.2023 8

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Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Fiercely Defended Workers’ Rights. There’s an Ulterior Motive.

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  Opening Arguments , Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court...

07.12.2023 20

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Sam Alito’s Lonely Fight to Defend His Friend’s Harebrained Anti-Tax Scheme

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  Opening Arguments , Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court...

06.12.2023 20

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