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The Supreme Court Just Took Legal Status from 300,000 Venezuelans

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The Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Friday let the Trump administration end the legal status of 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a type of humanitarian relief for people whose home countries are in crisis, even as this group’s case continues to wind through the courts. The order is extraordinary—not least […]

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Taking Stock of the Roberts Court at 20—and the Shadowy Forces That Built It

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Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now. In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself. Some effects are already visible in our everyday lives, others are only now coming into focus.  “This is […]

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Inside the Campaign to Dismantle the Last Remaining Limits on Campaign Spending

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Trump has picked a corporate litigator to defend a Supreme Court case that could unleash unlimited political spending.

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The Justice Department Is Ramping Up Trump’s Election-Rigging Efforts

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On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. The new legal actions signify […]

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They’ve Won In Court, But ICE Is Still Detaining and Trying to Deport Them

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When a 41-year-old Nigerian mother of two appeared before an immigration judge in New Jersey this January, she was ready with her life story.  Laura, as her friends call her, arrived in the United States on a tourist visa in 2020. She was fleeing domestic violence and in-laws who she believed would kill her because […]

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They’ve Won in Court, But ICE Is Still Detaining and Trying to Deport Them

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When a 41-year-old Nigerian mother of two appeared before an immigration judge in New Jersey in January, she was ready with her life story.  Laura, as her friends call her, arrived in the United States on a tourist visa in 2020. She was fleeing domestic violence and in-laws who she believed would kill her because […]

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The Supreme Court Greenlit the President’s Political Prosecutions—Even Unlawful Ones

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time ally turned critic of President Donald Trump, observed recently that Trump has torn down the traditional barrier between the president’s personal ambitions and the Justice Department’s power to investigate and prosecute criminal wrongdoing. “He absolutely rejects the idea that there should be separation between criminal investigations and […]

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The Supreme Court Says ICE Can Consider Race, But Colleges Can’t.

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On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to reshape American politics by making elected leaders whiter and locking communities of color out of power. The case concerns the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s requirement that minority communities have an equal opportunity to elect representatives of […]

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Supreme Court Blesses Racial Profiling by ICE

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In greater Los Angeles, the Trump administration’s goal of deporting millions of people is being operationalized through often violent raids that target people who appear Latino while waiting for the bus or working in low-wage jobs. A shorter way to say this is racial profiling of low-income people. Today, the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme […]

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Chief Justice Roberts Lets Trump Keep Fired Commissioner off FTC

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A lower court had ordered Trump to reinstate fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.

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The Supreme Court Asks Why It Shouldn’t Gut the Voting Rights Act

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We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states.

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Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post

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When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was sworn into office in 2023, then-Gov. Mike Parson joked that he had extracted a “blood oath” from the new appointee not to run for higher office too quickly. The state’s previous two attorneys general—Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt—had both used the position as an interim step to the […]

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