The South Carolina redistricting ruling is more evidence of a Court that guts voting rights and defers to politicians and not citizens.
John Roberts
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Justices Find Trump Ballot Arguments Supremely Vexing
An observer of the Supreme Court oral argument on the 45th president’s getting kicked off the Colorado primary ballot might be forgiven for asking, “What have you done with Donald Trump’s legal team?” The argument offered by the former president’s attorney was quite different than the posturing of his lawyers in previous cases—and even in […]
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It’s Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here
Not since the meek accountant in the back of the courtroom leapt up and screamed, “Stop, Perry Mason! I did it! I killed him, and I’m GLAD!” has a suspect been quite so eager to confess his crimes as Donald J. Trump. When he proposed a Muslim ban in 2016 and then actually declared one […]
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As the Supreme Court Reconsiders “Chevron Deference,” Will Its Ruling Be Monumental or “Meh”?
Last month, the Supreme Court heard two cases—Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce—each widely anticipated because the Court’s ruling on them could significantly reshape the federal judiciary’s relationship to the federal administrative bureaucracy. The issue in both is whether the Court should overrule, or at least narrow, a 40-year-old […]
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How to Fix the Supreme Court
The time has come to connect popular anger over the conservative supermajority with concrete ideas for reform.
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The Trump-Colorado Ballot Case Could Help Restore the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
Or it could destroy it if the conservative justices restore him to the state’s ballot and let him delay—and possibly quash—the legal cases arrayed against him.
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Can Trump Delay His Way Out of Criminal Convictions?
The facts are against him but if he appeals the federal cases brought by Jack Smith, the special counsel, he just might.
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What Do You Get When You Cross Samuel Alito with the State of Texas?
Two developments last week—a New York Times exposé on Supreme Court maneuvers to overturn Roe and a Texas woman compelled to deliver a fetus with a rare and fatal genetic defect—underscore the slipshod nature of the Dobbs ruling.
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A Taxing Question for the Roberts Court
The justices are being asked to define income under the 16th Amendment, and their answer will have a huge effect on enacting taxes on extreme wealth.
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What John Roberts Could Learn From Niccolò Machiavelli
Instead of defusing the ethics crisis on the Supreme Court, the chief justice has allowed it to fester, ignoring sage advice from the great authority on power.
