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The Supreme Court is Making an All Powerful President—But the One We Have Isn’t All That Interested in the Job

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The Trump administration is investigating whether former President Joe Biden was so enfeebled that his advisers secretly ran the country on his behalf. House Republicans and Trump’s obsequious new pardon attorney are likewise probing whether Biden’s aides issued pardons without his knowledge. “Although the authority to take these executive actions, along with many others, is […]

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SCOTUS’ Conservative Majority Rules in Favor of Disability Rights

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Ava Tharpe, the plaintiff in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a notable education and disability rights case on the Court’s current docket. The ruling ensures that families will not have to meet the notoriously difficult standard of proving “bad faith and gross misjudgment” when suing […]

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What SCOTUS Actually Said About Workplace Fairness in This Year’s Big “Reverse Discrimination” Case

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In 2020, Marlean Ames alleged that she was denied a job promotion and subsequently demoted by the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she is heterosexual. Her supervisor at the time was gay.  Ames sued her employer for discrimination, but lower courts initially dismissed her case. She hadn’t met a legal bar called the “background […]

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Enraged at Judicial Setbacks From His Own Nominees, Trump Is Pushing Extremists

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Trump is trying to pack the courts with inexperienced MAGA loyalists to facilitate his authoritarian agenda.

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Humanitarian Parole Is Over. Now Comes the Fear.

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Last week, the US Supreme Court lifted an order from a Massachusetts district court that had maintained humanitarian parole protections in place for about 530,000 immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua who had been living in the United States legally under a Biden-era program. Advocacy groups in South Florida condemned the decision that will […]

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The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Will to Make It Easier to Build Stuff, Good and Bad

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This story was originally published by Vox.com, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court handed down an opinion on Thursday that reads like it was written by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, the authors of an influential book arguing that excessive regulation of land use and development has made it too difficult to build […]

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Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More

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To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]

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The Trump Administration Is Already Ignoring the Supreme Court

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On May 16, the Supreme Court handed down a significant order in one of the many swirling cases over the Trump administration’s efforts to seize immigrants and deport them to foreign prisons. In an unsigned opinion, seven of the court’s nine justices reaffirmed that immigrants needed a reasonable amount of time to challenge their deportations. […]

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After Federal Rollbacks, Corporate Interests Wage War on State Regulators

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Model legislation from right-wing policy incubator ALEC aims to extend deregulation far beyond Washington, DC.

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Supreme Court Again Blocks Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations

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The ruling is not a repudiation of Alien Enemies Act deportations and focuses solely on migrants’ due process rights.

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Supreme Court Again Halts Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations

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In a 7-2 ruling on Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court once again barred the Trump administration from removing Venezuelans held at Texas immigration detention centers under the Alien Enemies Act, which gives the government extraordinary powers to summarily deport noncitizens during a “declared war” or “invasion.” The justices found that the federal government violated the […]

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