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Stormy Daniels Aside, Trump Is Basically Winning His Legal Battles

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Our Money-in-Politics Problem Just Got Worse

If you’re a big fan of money in politics, then the Federal Election Commission made your day last week with two important moves: one that could open...

08.05.2024 10

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The Right-Wing Judges’ Ban on Columbia Students Is Wildly Unethical

Judges do not comment on politics. This principle is so fundamental to the American legal system that writing it out feels like writing that...

07.05.2024 20

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Biden’s Marijuana Move Is Good for American Democracy

President Joe Biden ran for president on the premise that he would protect the nation’s democracy from existential threats. This week, his...

03.05.2024 10

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Journalism’s Existential Fight Against A.I.

Artificial intelligence chatbots are a booming business these days. So are copyright lawsuits against them. A.I. development companies have already...

01.05.2024 10

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The Biden Administration’s New Pro-Worker Rule Has Powerful Enemies

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission issued a major new rule that would ban noncompete clauses for almost all American workers. The rule would be a...

30.04.2024 40

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The Supreme Court Might Put Trump Above the Law

Thursday’s oral argument in United States v. Trump might have been the most surreal session ever held in the Supreme Court’s 235-year history. At...

25.04.2024 10

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A Simple Fix for Texas’s Right-Wing Courts: More Judges

Judge James Ho has one of the best jobs in the world right now. Thanks to the quirks of federal case assignment rules and the winds of political fate,...

24.04.2024 30

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The Supreme Court Wants Nothing to Do With Homelessness

The Supreme Court appeared to be split on Monday on whether an Oregon city’s ordinances that make it illegal to sleep outdoors in public spaces...

23.04.2024 30

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The Vegas-ization of Everything Is Strangling Professional Sports

Almost every professional athlete hopes to be famous one day—to shatter records and break streaks; to enshrine themselves in their sport’s...

19.04.2024 6

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The Supreme Court May Not Have Doomed the Right to Protest After All

The Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for review each year. It agrees to hear only a handful of them. The rest are denied without any...

17.04.2024 10

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The Shady Right-Wing Threats to Keep Biden Off Some State Ballots

When the Supreme Court overturned a Colorado court ruling last month that had disqualified former President Donald Trump from the state ballot, the...

14.04.2024 9

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Will the Supreme Court Botch Trump’s Immunity Case Too?

The Supreme Court saved one of its most important cases of the term for last. Later this month, the justices will hear oral arguments in Trump v....

11.04.2024 10

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The Arizona Supreme Court Dragged the State Back to 1864

The Arizona Supreme Court hoisted a sword of Damocles over the state on Tuesday by reviving a near-total ban on abortion that had been moribund for...

10.04.2024 5

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Do the Homeless Have the Right to Fall Asleep?

The Biden administration is seeking to intervene in a major Supreme Court case on criminalizing homelessness, thrusting itself into a high-profile...

09.04.2024 10

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Sonia Sotomayor’s Retirement Is Not the Point

The Supreme Court’s current term is winding down, with only a handful of oral arguments left and plenty of opinions to be written. The presidential...

05.04.2024 10

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The Supreme Court Could Puncture Prosecutorial Immunity

Americans are a litigious people. But there are some people that even Americans can’t sue for wronging us. One of the most surprising categories is...

04.04.2024 10

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The Sick Wish Fulfillment of “Trump 2028”

The American Conservative magazine published an article last week in which the author, Peter Tonguette, argued that Trump should be able to run for a...

02.04.2024 10

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The Fifth Circuit’s Reign of Error Is in Jeopardy

If it feels like you read a lot of news stories that begin with “A federal judge in Texas ruled that …,” you aren’t imagining things. A clique...

29.03.2024 30

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The Supreme Court Might Nix This Mifepristone Case, But Inspire Others

The Supreme Court appeared unwilling on Tuesday to uphold a lower court ruling that would limit access to mifepristone, the nation’s most commonly...

27.03.2024 8

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The Department of Justice Takes Aim at Apple’s iPhone Empire

Next year marks the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Reflecting on the last 24 years conjures up all sorts of turning points: the...

23.03.2024 10

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The Most Conservative Jurists in America Have Lost The Supreme Court

For a few hours on Tuesday night, the state of Texas had its own immigration system. The Supreme Court declined to block Senate Bill 4, the state’s...

21.03.2024 10

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Trump’s Defamation Case Against ABC News Might Be Winnable

Former President Donald Trump has filed yet another defamation lawsuit against a news outlet. This time, the target is ABC News and anchor George...

20.03.2024 9

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The NRA Is About to Notch Another Legal Victory at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has sided with the National Rifle Association on Second Amendment issues from time to time. Now the court appears ready to side with...

19.03.2024 5

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The British Royal Family Is Losing Its Media Touch

11.03.2024 10

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The Supreme Court Rekindled the January 6 Crisis

Americans are currently bracing themselves for the 2024 presidential election this November, which will now almost certainly be a rematch of the race...

11.03.2024 6

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Everybody Hates the Supreme Court’s Disqualification Ruling

The Supreme Court released its 13-page decision in Trump v. Anderson on Monday. In their ruling, which is 9–0 for some parts and 5–4 for others,...

06.03.2024 7

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The Supreme Court Just Blew a Hole in the Constitution

04.03.2024 3

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Trump Has Already Won His Immunity Case at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on Wednesday by announcing it would decide whether President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution in the...

29.02.2024 3

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How the Supreme Court Created One Nation Under the Gun

It’s been more than two years since the Supreme Court opened a new frontier for gun laws. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the...

29.02.2024 10

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Bill Ackman Is Going to Help Save Journalism

Defamation cases are hard to win in the United States. Starting with its 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court has required...

28.02.2024 3

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Alabama’s IVF Ruling Is a Dire Warning to Other States

The Alabama Supreme Court stunned the nation earlier this week by ruling that frozen embryos are children under state law. The decision has vast...

23.02.2024 50

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Elon Musk and Amazon Team Up to Try to Demolish Workers’ Rights

Elon Musk is not a fan of unions. Nor are Amazon, Starbucks, or, apparently, Trader Joe’s. Those four companies opened the new year by mounting a...

21.02.2024 10

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The Hilarious Collapse of a Republican Smear Job

Welcome to the least surprising turn of events imaginable: Federal prosecutors have charged a former FBI informant on Thursday with lying to the...

17.02.2024 30

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Missouri Republicans Have Come Up With a New Way to Blow Up Democracy

In his majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization two years ago, Justice Samuel Alito said the court overturned Roe v. Wade so...

16.02.2024 30

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The Supreme Court Could Radically Redefine the Right to Protest

Street protests are an unruly but essential part of democracy. Courts have long held that those who organize them are generally protected by the First...

15.02.2024 8

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The Supreme Court Wants No Part of Disqualifying Trump From the Ballot

The Supreme Court doesn’t seem to want to disqualify former President Donald Trump from political office for his role in the January 6 insurrection....

09.02.2024 7

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Trump’s Embarrassing Immunity Arguments Have Been Thoroughly Shredded

06.02.2024 30

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The Trump Disqualification Case Is the Supreme Court’s Most Consequential Moment

Something extraordinary is set to happen on Thursday: The Supreme Court will interpret part of the Constitution for the first time. Neither the...

06.02.2024 5

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West Point Is the Next Front in the Legal War on Affirmative Action

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that the use of affirmative action in college admissions violated the...

01.02.2024 4

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This Is Republican Governance on Trumpism

Americans are now one month into a presidential election year, and the Republican Party is acting accordingly. GOP office-holders at every level of...

31.01.2024 7

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Congress Cracked Down on Horse Racing Deaths. Racetracks Are Fighting Back.

Horse racing is one of America’s oldest sports yet one of the least scrutinized. With a fatality rate for jockeys that outpaces that of NASCAR...

30.01.2024 5

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Texas Is Ginning Up a New Constitutional Crisis

On Wednesday, Texas’s ongoing spat with the federal government over border enforcement hit new heights of escalation. Governor Greg Abbott issued a...

26.01.2024 8

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The Supreme Court’s Silent Rulings Are Increasingly Troubling

American courts and judges are usually pretty good at explaining themselves. They write opinions laying out their reasoning in detail. This informs...

25.01.2024 20

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Texas’s Middle Finger to the Federal Government—and the Constitution

Say what you will about Texas lawmakers, but they are an innovative bunch. Two years ago, they managed to end legal abortion—even before the Supreme...

22.12.2023 10

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The Pundits Who Are Handing Trump a Huge Christmas Gift

20.12.2023 9

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Criminal Defendant of the Year: Donald Trump

It was approaching midnight on election night, and the networks had just declared that Democrats had won the presidential election. Donald Trump was...

20.12.2023 6

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This Is Still Fascism—Only Worse

In 2015, Donald Trump infamously launched his first presidential campaign by descending a faux-gilded escalator and saying of undocumented immigrants,...

19.12.2023 10

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America’s Most Corrupt Mayors Have a Friend in the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court announced this week that it would take up a few major cases. One involved mifepristone, the most commonly used abortion drug in the...

17.12.2023 20

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The Abortion Pill Might Just Stand a Chance at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would take up its first abortion-related case since overturning Roe v. Wade last year. Abortion...

15.12.2023 4

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