Based on oral arguments, the Supreme Court seems poised to block Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Six justices, three Republicans, scoffed at his efforts to overrule birthright citizenship rights spelled out in the 14th Amendment.
Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.
The Supreme Court’s stunning invalidation of most of the president’s tariffs is another sign that Trumpist populist nationalism is in crisis.
As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law
A nativist theory from the lunatic fringe has been revived and given a sloppy originalist makeover for Supreme Court approval.
A veteran civil rights attorney won a landmark redistricting case. He fears such wins could soon vanish.
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challenge: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald Trump, or Wall Street?
On birthright citizenship, we can thus follow Lincoln, or we can follow Trump. But we cannot follow both, because Trump is trying to undo precisely what Lincoln and his allies did, beginning eight score and three years ago.
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