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Justice Alito’s Latest Opinion Is a Very, Very Bad Sign for Voting Rights

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The Supreme Court on Monday evening overturned a New York state court ruling that found that the Staten Island-based district of Republican US House Rep. Nicole Malliotakis discriminated against Black and Latino voters and needed to be redrawn. The Supreme Court’s intervention preserves a GOP-led seat that would have been likely to shift to Democrats […]

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Any Showdown Over Warmaking Powers Could Ultimately End Up at Supreme Court

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Such a case could give conservative justices a chance to let presidents launch wars without limits or authorization.

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Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Empty by March

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The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists.

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A Technical Question Before the Supreme Court Could Seal Fate of Line 5 Pipeline

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Many tribal nations say the pipeline threatens their waters, treaty rights, and ways of life.

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Trump Attacks Supreme Court Over Pending Birthright Citizenship Case

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Trump errantly claimed that the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause only applies to “the babies of slaves.”

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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Fossil Fuel Firms’ Bid for Climate Immunity

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in a climate accountability lawsuit, marking the first time the high court has weighed in on such a case. The decision could potentially hinder the wave of climate litigation the US has seen in […]

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Trump’s Favorite Appointee Right Now Is the One Who Didn’t Challenge His Power

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President Trump’s favorite Supreme Court justice right now is the appointee who refused to restrict the president’s tariff agenda. After the high court ruled against him in his tariff case on Friday, Trump has repeatedly singled out Justice Brett Kavanaugh in praise—the only one of Trump’s three appointments to dissent against the majority opinion that […]

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariff Regime

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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that most of President Donald Trump’s world-wide tariffs are illegal, dealing a setback to one of the president’s top priorities. Since his second month in office, Trump has set about to impose drastic, varying, and haphazard tariffs on countries across the globe. Trump purported that most of these tariffs were […]

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The President’s Lawyers Submitted False Information About a “Law & Order” Plot to the Supreme Court

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President Donald Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean Carroll—who he was found liable for sexually assaulting in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996—according to documents reviewed by Mother Jones.  Justin D. Smith, Trump’s lawyer in the case, misrepresented the plot of […]

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