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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.
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Opinionpalooza: The Vanishing Emergency Abortio...
Why timing is everything in opinion season; Justice Barrett bench-slaps the ‘Fightin’ Fifth’; and Justice Kavanaugh lends his hand to the Court’s federal corruption deregulation spree.
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Rahimi and The Roberts Court’s All New, Also Ol...
A (mostly) embarrassed Supreme Court majority tries to clean up sloppy (and deadly) Bruen with vague Rahimi. Justice Thomas is not embarrassed.
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Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS Says Yes to Bump Stocks,...
Justice Clarence Thomas overturns the bump stock ban in his deadly Garland v Cargill majority opinion.
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Opinionpalooza: Don’t Call the Mifepristone Cas...
SCOTUS's first big abortion decision of the term is a case of anti-abortionists winning while they're losing
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The Supreme Court’s Appeal to Heaven
The religious right’s influence goes far beyond a flag. A deep dive on Christian Nationalism and the US Supreme Court
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Will the Supreme Court Step Into Trump’s Hush M...
There are some alarmingly unconstitutional calls for the High Court to step in, will the conservative Justices take the bait?
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Opinionpalooza: The Court of King Alito
In case after case and in his now infamous flag response - Justice Samuel Alito is bending facts to fit his narrative, crowning himself this monarchic court’s sovereign.
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SPECIAL: Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts
A New York City jury voted to convict former President Donald J Trump of falsifying records to cover up the story of an affair with a porn star that threatened his chances in the 2016 presidential election.
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Opinionpalooza: A Bad June Rising At SCOTUS
The Supreme Court’s end-of-term is going to be chaos. It doesn’t have to be.
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Opinionpalooza: Justice Alito Flies the Flag fo...
The Supreme Court’s June rampage begins in May with a very bad racial gerrymander decision
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How Originalism Ate The Law: What We Can Do Abo...
Part three of our Originalism series examines how SCOTUS became captive and what we can do about it, in a live edition with Hawaii State Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, Madiba Dennie, and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern.
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Alito’s Stars and Gripes
What the Justice’s upside down American flag tells us about SCOTUS’ declining legitimacy.
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How Originalism Ate The Law: The Trap
Part two of a series examining the theory of constitutional interpretation that has eaten the law and gobbled up a bunch of your rights with it.
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How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick
Part one of a series examining the theory of constitutional interpretation that has eaten the law and gobbled up a bunch of your rights with it.
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Democracy Dies at SCOTUS
Justice Alito suggests it’s better for democracy to let Presidents commit crime with impunity. Cool.
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PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at SCOTUS
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take you through the arguments in the emergency abortion care case and a look ahead to Trump’s immunity case.
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Twelve Jurors and One Angry Ex-President
What the first week of Trump’s hush money trial tells us about how the former President is handling his first criminal trial
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The Jurisprudence of Bleeding Out
SCOTUS is about to decide whether being on the brink of death is the only way pregnant patients can qualify for emergency abortion care.
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When Gag Orders Become Campaign-Performance Ind...
What to do when a presidential campaign folds in the characteristics of terrorism.
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When RAGA Rhymes with MAGA
The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is part of the conservative legal movement’s holy trinity, and all in for Trump.
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How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS
Will this Supreme Court reward three decades of activism against abortion pills and ban the safest, most popular abortion method in the United States?
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Who Gets to Lie Online?
On Monday, the Supreme Court hears a case about the government’s ability to combat online misinformation about COVID and elections.
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The Lies Destroying America
American democracy is losing the battle against disinformation, but all is not lost.
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Yes, You Can Vote for an Insurrectionist
The Supreme Court unanimously restored Trump to the Colorado primary ballot, but a clutch of conservative justices went further - neutering 14th amendment’s insurrection clause.
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The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming
You can draw a straight line from Jim Crow to Dobbs and the Alabama IVF decision
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