They are anticipating that vast structural changes will ultimately keep them in power, regardless of how they legislate.
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The decision could shape whether the use of emergency powers to bypass Congress becomes a tool of routine governance.
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Trump is cancelling billions of dollars in federal funding for congressionally approved projects already underway.
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The Supreme Court could indicate whether it will take up a challenge to same-sex marriage as soon as November 13.
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The co-chairman of the Federalist Society has established a network of attorneys general who will do it for him.
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The report stated that, unlike the Supreme Court, lower courts are “engaged in a bipartisan fight for the rule of law.”
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President Donald Trump is demanding that the Justice Department transfer $230 million in taxpayer dollars into his own personal bank account. He can do this, because thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, the executive branch could accurately be described by King Louis XIV—L’état, c’est Trump. When Trump says this is his decision to make, he’s […]
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A private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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The Supreme Court, with its six-to-three Republican-appointed majority, appears ready to kneecap what remains of the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority political representation. During Wednesday’s oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, at least five conservative justices seemed ready to enfeeble the seminal civil rights law such that it will no longer stop white majorities […]
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Republican Justices Appear Poised to Destroy What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act Read Post »
If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is dismantled, the impact will reshape political power across the US, experts say.
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SCOTUS Case Could Destroy Voting Rights Act and Cement GOP Control of House Read Post »
The current Supreme Court, helmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, has been focused on chipping away at civil rights laws and policies for 20 years. On Tuesday, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent not just another chip, but a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy: […]
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Rulings on the Supreme Court’s “emergency docket” foreshadow its abiding deference to Trump.
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