The Court Said No. The Judge Said It Again.
The Supreme Court told the president the 14th Amendment was not a suggestion. Six weeks later, he signed a narrower order and the same judge blocked it, almost as a formality. "The Supreme Court has s…
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March to Save the Vote. The Map is the War.
Sixty-three years after 200,000 Americans filled the Mall, a fraction of them returned to beg a president and a Supreme Court to stop redrawing the map so they would not count. "Today, we have a presi…
Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Mail Voting Order
The Supreme Court didn't rule that the president can rig the election. It just ruled that the courts have to wait to be allowed to stop him. "This ruling violates well-established precedents concernin…
The Diagnosis That Convicted 44 Innocent Parents
A diagnosis the science has largely abandoned is still deciding who gets to be a parent and who goes to prison, and the country has just watched it die on the record in open court. Danica Rue, executi…
Trump Lawyer Confirmed as AG, Promises National Abortion Ban
A president's personal lawyer now sits atop the Department of Justice, and his first order of business is to finish what a Supreme Court majority started. "We're working to get solutions so that the D…
Trump Signs New Orders After Birthright Defeat
The Supreme Court told the president the Constitution does not bend to executive orders. His response was to sign two more. "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution." — Chief Justice John Roberts…
100 Billion in Tariffs, Nothing Back for Americans
100 Billion in Tariffs, Nothing Back for Americans tags: trump, tariffs, consumers, economy A president tells Fox News his economic policy has been incredible while the Treasury writes $100 billion in…
Trump Tariff Refunds: Wall Street Gets Rich, Consumers Get Nothing
A Supreme Court ruled that the government illegally collected billions in tariffs, so it has to give the money back. The problem is everyone who actually paid those tariffs gets nothing while Wall Str…
Judge Shatters Trump Article II Firing Theory
The Trump administration believed that Article II of the Constitution gave the president unlimited power to fire any federal worker. A federal judge just told them they were wrong. "For the last 140 y…
Trump Gutted the Election Agency. No One Is Left.
The president fires everyone on the only federal agency dedicated to elections, then cites a Supreme Court ruling that gave him permission to do it. "The Republicans should say, we want to take over. …
Trump Demands a Supreme Court Do-Over He Knows Will Be Denied
Trump lost his birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court and his response was to demand a do-over from the same nine people who just told him no. "I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United…
Supreme Courts Shadow Docket Has Overtaken Open Justice
The Supreme Court has quietly become a government by anonymous ballot, deciding more consequential cases in secret than in open court for the first time in modern history. "The result is a body that l…
Kavanaugh Gave Congress the Keys to Undo Birthright Citizenship
Brett Kavanaugh voted to block Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, then handed Congress the keys to finish the job. "Consistent with the 14th Amendment, Congress could amend that statut…
He Made $2.2 Billion. He Just Will Not Pay $5 Million.
The Supreme Court gave him everything he wanted, including nearly unlimited power. But $5 million for a jury verdict he lost? That is apparently too much to ask. "Surprisingly, the Supreme Court decli…
Trump Plan B: Ban Pregnant Women from Entering
immigration, trump, supreme court, birthright citizenship After the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, the Trump administration's next move was to try to bar pregnant women from setting foot…
Roberts Gives Trump the Government, Keeps the Money
A Supreme Court hands a president absolute power to fire anyone in any agency, then immediately refuses to give him the same power over one institution that controls interest rates. "The result is a P…
Supreme Court Quietly Builds Its Own Army
The branch with no army has begun quietly building one, and the justices would rather you never noticed. "It's often said that the Supreme Court has no army. Yet, with little fanfare, the size of the …
Supreme Court Just Legalized Turning Away Refugees
The Supreme Court just made it legal to turn away people fleeing genocide. The justices called it statutory interpretation. "If the refugees on the M.S. St. Louis were to walk up to a port of entry on…
Supreme Court Set to Hand Trump Power to Fire Anyone, Anytime
The Roberts Court is about to hand the president a tool that no American chief executive has ever possessed: the constitutional authority to fire any government worker at will. "This is a choice—an il…
Dark Money Bankrolled the Voting Rights Evisceration
Seven conservative nonprofits that filed Supreme Court briefs to weaken the Voting Rights Act absorbed $105 million in anonymous donations between 2021 and 2024, a sevenfold increase from the prior pe…