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The Supreme Court Is Gaslighting Us All
At the close of one of the most consequential and least constitutional terms in the Supreme Court’s history, it’s hard to ignore one particularly offensive trend: the right-wing justices’ repeated and patronizing attempts to minimize the importance ...
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Dropping in Just to Say ‘Hi!’
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to [email protected]. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. A Salutation Situation I work in a very fast-paced, fairly ...
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Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Republican-Backed Abortion Regulations
The rulings were the latest blow for abortion opponents in Kansas, where abortion protections in the State Constitution have vexed Republicans for years.
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On Trump, the Supreme Court Fails to Look in the Mirror
At the end of another momentous term, the Supreme Court has issued major rulings that will reshape the law. Like much that the court does today, these decisions, in areas like administrative law, have been widely criticized as corrupt or illegitimate ...
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In Immunity Decision, Clashing Views of the Nature of Politics
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority largely embraced Donald Trump’s dark view of tit-for-tat partisan prosecutions while liberals cited the prospect of power unchecked by legal accountability.
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The Supreme Court Steps Back From the Edge
The nine members of the Supreme Court peered over a precipice. A disagreeable choice loomed before them. They could apply their two-year-old gun-rights precedent, as a lower court had, and declare unconstitutional a federal law aimed at keeping guns ...
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What Makes Katie Ledecky Swim?
Long before Katie Ledecky was collecting gold medals and setting world records, she seemed nonchalant about making it across the pool. In her first race, a 25-meter freestyle, she stopped along the lane line about 10 times, sometimes to clear her ...
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Objections to Alito’s Refusal to Recuse
More from our inbox: ‘Math Belongs to Everyone,’ Not Just the Elite Few‘Overriding a Patient’s Wishes Is a Legal, Not a Medical, Decision’R.F.K. Jr. and HistorySupreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, in 2018. “The ...
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The Untold Story of the Network That Took Down Roe v. Wade
It happened almost by accident, over cocktails. Exactly the kind of accident that Leonard Leo intended to happen at his Federalist Society’s annual conference — a three-day gathering of the conservative tribe and a strategy session for right-wing ...
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Lawmakers Dial Up Pressure on Alito to Recuse From Elections Cases
The outcry over Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. comes amid fears about whether the American public will regard the Supreme Court’s rulings about Jan. 6 as fair.