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How some Supreme Court decisions divided the court's conservative supermajority
While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents ...
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The Supreme Court Says Laws Aren’t Real
To cover the Supreme Court these days is to catalogue its lawlessness. The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon ...
A growing number of Americans believe Supreme Court is motivated by politics, not law
By a two-to-one margin, the public believes justices prioritize politics over the law. That's a disaster for the Supreme ...
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Opinion: The Supreme Court’s silent opinions undermine its legitimacy
Without explanation, the majority blocked lower court orders halting President Trump’s dismantling of the Department of ...
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The Supreme Court’s Most Worrisome Non-Decision
The Roberts Court has asked for reargument in a key redistricting case, a move that strongly suggests the conservative ...
The Supreme Court Won’t Explain Itself
In their decision allowing the Trump administration to dismantle the Department of Education, the justices didn’t offer one ...
Amy Coney Barrett's Biggest Supreme Court Allies Revealed
New analysis reveals the justices with whom Barrett most and least agreed during the Court's most recent term.
The Supreme Court and Trump Are Playing Chicken Over Jerome Powell. SCOTUS Will Lose.
Mark Joseph Stern: Under federal law, Trump cannot remove Powell over a policy disagreement. Federal law expressly allows for ...
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COMMENTARY: Supreme Court’s majority is playing long game
Many legal commentators apparently believe that, in the term that just ended, the Supreme Court further enabled President ...
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The Supreme Court’s silent opinions undermine its legitimacy
In a precedent-based legal system, you can’t know what the law is if you don’t have judicial opinions explaining why the courts have reached their conclusions.