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Trump tries to claim he has no idea what the deal is with Project 2025.
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Given the accommodationist perspective of a majority of justices on today’s U.S. Supreme Court, St. Isidore’s likely appeal bears watching.
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How the Supreme Court seized power from both the legislative and executive branches.
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Arizona will likely join Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and South Dakota in placing abortion rights ballot questions before voters during a tumultuous presidential election — during a time in which things look increasingly dire for Democrats by the day.

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The collision of the Supreme Court’s radical end-of-term rulings with President Biden’s catastrophic debate performance is one of those quirks of timing that only history can provide.

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Trump v. United States is a legal earthquake that belongs alongside Shelby County v. Holder, Plessy v. Ferguson and Dred Scott.
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Giuliani left us all with a bit of postelection stress.

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An alleged theft in a Maricopa County tabulation center sets off more wild conspiracy theories.

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“Although we believe defendant’s arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion,” Joshua Steinglass, an assistant district attorney who worked the case, wrote.

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With its immunity decision, SCOTUS took a sledgehammer to the constitutional foundation of American democracy and eviscerated the rule of law. It will go down in the annals of wretched decisions alongside Dred Scott, Plessy, and Korematsu.

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Before surrendering himself to Federal Correctional Institution Danbury in Connecticut on Monday, Bannon hosted a farewell episode of his “War Room” broadcast with a little help from MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
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Luckily for Trump, per the Court’s ruling, he seems to have led the Jan. 6 insurrection in a way that secures him near-blanket immunity.

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke with her conservative peers Monday on a part of the majority opinion that will kneecap prosecutors’ ability to make criminal cases against former presidents.

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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court Monday ruled that presidents get “presumptive immunity” for official acts they took as president — making it extremely unlikely that we’ll see Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case go to trial before the November election.

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The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overrule Chevron will have vast consequences, many of then unseen or hard to detect, but one of the things we were discussing internally Friday as we assessed ...

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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that forbidding people without housing from sleeping with a blanket outside — even when they have nowhere else to go — does not run afoul of the 8th Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

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The Supreme Court on Friday narrowed an obstruction charge that had been used in the prosecution of hundreds of Jan. 6 insurrectionists — and in the pending case against Donald Trump — with an unusual configuration of justices.
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If you did not watch it yourself, congratulations.

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President Joe Biden and Donald Trump meet Thursday night in Atlanta for the first debate of the general election cycle — one many assumed wouldn’t happen, until Biden threw down the gauntlet last month. Follow our live coverage here

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Republicans are mounting legal challenges against voter roll maintenance practices — public actions that do little but perpetuate lies as election deniers set themselves up to cry voter fraud if things don’t go their way in November.

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The case, centered on whether Idaho’s draconian abortion ban supersedes federal emergency room standards, Jackson wrote, is an easy one — and one that the Court should decide now to avoid further suffering and confusion on the ground.

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The majority's undermining of both agency and congressional power demonstrates a danger beyond curtailing how the SEC can go after fraudsters, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissent, joined by her two liberal colleagues.
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How Federal Workers Will Be The First Casualties Of Trump II->Right now, all across the federal government, people are acutely aware of what a Trump II would mean for them and their work.
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The potential ruling is not necessarily a win for abortion rights. It’s not necessarily a win for either side. It doesn't clear up the issues around EMTALA and Idaho’s abortion ban in a full-throated way.

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Republicans are trying to create a world in which their party is not responsible for putting abortion, and nearly every other form of reproductive care, in harm’s way after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
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The Supreme Court reversed the Fifth Circuit yet again Wednesday, finding that a couple of red states and individual far-right actors lacked standing to ban the Biden administration from urging tech companies to suppress disinformation.

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But I observed from our reporting on it over the years that the voter fraud bogosity was so prevalent that even reasonable, non-bad-actor Republicans adopted and advanced it unquestioningly. It was in the drinking water. They didn’t even know they’d been sipping it for years.

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We saw a similar dynamic in the decades-long voter fraud bamboozlement effort the GOP was running. Yes, those efforts were smoked out, the worst culprits identified, and some of the most egregious efforts either thwarted or rolled back.

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One under-appreciated aspect of Donald Trump’s relentless year’s long campaign to promulgate the Big Lie is how it becomes internalized as gospel all the way down the GOP line to the local dog catcher.
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On the Trump Veepship announcement — who and when and as a distraction for what has remained unclear for some time, likely intentionally on the Trump campaign’s end.

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Keeping A Blacklist And Checking It Twice: The Heritage Foundation is funding the creation of a blacklist of federal government workers who MAGA loyalists claim might obstruct the Trump II agenda, the Associated Press reported Monday.

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A new Georgia program highlights the tension between a potentially increased law enforcement presence at polling places and the inadvertent intimidation and disenfranchisement of voters.

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The report shines a particularly painful light on just another layer of suffering that women and those who can become pregnant have had to endure since Dobbs put abortion and nearly every other form of reproductive care in the U.S. in harm’s way.

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The podcast host attacked law enforcement officers outside the Capitol with a large stick.

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The Nevada Fake Electors Prosecution May Be Fatally Flawed: The criminal prosecution of the 2020 fake electors scheme in Nevada was undertaken in the wrong county, a state judge ruled Friday.

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While it upheld the crux of a right-wing district judge’s ruling on a major Affordable Care Act case Friday, a panel of judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals accused that district judge of abusing his discretion by letting insurers nationwide stop offering free preventative care.

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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that individuals who pose a “credible threat to the physical safety of another” may be stripped of their guns, showing that even its extremely expansive reading of the Second Amendment stops at letting a proven domestic abuser carry arms.

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An unusual all-day hearing is scheduled today down in Florida in the Mar-a-Lago case on whether Jack Smith was lawfully appointed as special counsel. That’s weird enough on its own, but it comes a day after the NYT published ...
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As Senate Republicans put forward toothless, bad faith legislative alternatives to Dems’ bill to protect in-vitro fertilization at the national level last week, the extent to which they are struggling to message on the issue as a party was on full display.

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Justice Alito telegraphed for months that he was cozy with an attorney in a key tax case before the Supreme Court, and was inclined to go whole hog on his side. But on Thursday, he held back.

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While we await the Supreme Court’s decision on Donald Trump’s claim that he enjoys presidential immunity from prosecution, let me run through the various forms of disingenuousness to be on the look out for when the ruling eventually comes down.

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The Supreme Court Thursday ruled not to redefine “income” — a move, pushed aggressively by Justice Neil Gorsuch during oral arguments, that would have headed off various wealth tax proposals that have gained steam on the left, and been a bounty to the very wealthy and corporations.

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In the VA-05 grudge match over who is Trumpy enough, House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R) is trailing state Sen. John J. McGuire III (R) by a mere 327 votes in the GOP primary, with 97.8% of the votes counted.

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The Idaho Republican Party expanded its anti-reproductive health efforts during a party convention, affirming its support for the fetal personhood ideology and proclaiming that they oppose “the destruction of human embryos.”

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Republicans Are Baldly Turning Jan. 6 Into A Rallying Cry->If you thought elected Republicans might memory hole Jan. 6 for the duration of the 2024 campaign, or downplay it, or try to sidestep it, nope.

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One by one, the conspiracy theorists and election deniers who, four years ago, thrust American democracy into chaos, are being held accountable for their actions, despite leaving a trail of destruction behind.

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