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In Supreme Court Debate on Voting Rights Act, a Dubious Use of Statistics
In oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. introduced a statistical claim that he took to imply that an important provision of the Voting Rights Act has...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Probably Be Confirmed Today
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t want to step down from the Supreme Court. In an Elle magazine interview published this week, she said: “If I resign any time this year, [President Obama] could not...
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Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older
The Supreme Court justices are back from vacation. They’ve picked up their robes from the cleaners — Alito’s had a pesky mustard stain — and are reassembling Monday to hear the first of the new term’s...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Probably Be Confirmed Today
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t want to step down from the Supreme Court. In an Elle magazine interview published this week, she said: “If I resign any time this year, [President Obama] could not...
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Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older
The Supreme Court justices are back from vacation. They’ve picked up their robes from the cleaners — Alito’s had a pesky mustard stain — and are reassembling Monday to hear the first of the new term’s...
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Is Chief Justice Roberts A Secret Liberal?
In 2009, The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Chief Justice John Roberts, more than any of his colleagues, had “served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican...
View ArticleChief Justice Roberts Is Reshaping The First Amendment
It’s been a big year for free speech at the Supreme Court. Two of the most high-profile cases argued before the court so far have revolved around free speech rights, four other cases on the docket this...
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John Roberts Will Probably Be The Supreme Court’s Next Swing Justice
Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring, which means the makeup of the Supreme Court is about to shift dramatically. For the past 12 years, since Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retired from the bench,...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: How Conservative Can Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Be?
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John Roberts Has Cast A Pivotal Liberal Vote Only 5 Times
John Roberts is likely about to occupy a dual position that no one else has in the modern history of the United States: He will be both the court’s chief justice and, with the retirement of Justice...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: How Will The Fight Against Gerrymandering Change Now That...
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Here’s Why The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Escalating
Graphics by Gus Wezerek Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky and now Alabama. In the past three months, five states have enacted laws that severely restrict access to abortion — sometimes as early as...
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The Supreme Court Might Have Three Swing Justices Now
When Justice Anthony Kennedy retired from the Supreme Court last summer, one big question was whether another justice would continue his legacy as the court’s “swing” vote. Kennedy wasn’t really a...
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Is The Supreme Court Heading For A Conservative Revolution?
In the final weeks of the Supreme Court’s last term, the court’s conservative majority overruled two decades-old cases. The cases made headlines — not because their content was especially...
View ArticleThe Senate Trial Moves To Its Questions Phase, But The Biggest Question Is...
Senate Republicans may be back on track with their plan to end President Trump’s impeachment trial pretty swiftly now — without calling witnesses and potentially as soon as Friday. That seemed a little...
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The Supreme Court Struck Down A Louisiana Abortion Law. Here’s Where The...
On Monday morning, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberals yet again to strike down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law that could have left the state with a single clinic. This case...
View ArticleWe’re Not Going To See Trump’s Tax Returns Anytime Soon
President Trump is one of the only presidents in modern memory who has kept his tax returns private, and attempts to force their release have sparked a mountain of litigation, reaching all the way to...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Conservatives Didn’t Get The SCOTUS They Wanted This Term
By Galen Druke and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Galen Druke and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS The U.S. Supreme Court wrapped up a lengthy and consequential term on...
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The Supreme Court’s Big Rulings Were Surprisingly Mainstream This Year
ILLUSTRATION BY FABIO BUONOCORE The Supreme Court just wrapped up its first full term with two of Trump’s nominees on the bench. But the court’s much-anticipated conservative revolution didn’t really...
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