The one big question looming over Trump’s power grabs
Much of what Donald Trump has done in his first eight days back in the White House is legally unjustifiable.
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The Supreme Court’s decision upholding the TikTok ban, explained
On Friday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law that effectively bans the social media app TikTok in the
Ian Millhiser
20:25
The huge stakes in a new Supreme Court case about pornography
If you’ve studied First Amendment law, it’s impossible not to experience déjà vu while reading the briefs in Free Speech
Ian Millhiser
20:20
The long decline of the American death penalty, explained
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates on Monday, meaning that 37 men who
Ian Millhiser
18:24
The Supreme Court’s new abortion case should be an easy win for Planned Parenthood
Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which the Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear, is not a difficult
Ian Millhiser
06:21
The Supreme Court wades into the Israel-Palestine conflict
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will get involved in a longstanding dispute between the families of Americans
Ian Millhiser
16:24
A GOP Supreme Court will now decide the fate of transgender Americans
It’s hard to imagine a worse time for the Supreme Court to hear United States v. Skrmetti, arguably the most
Ian Millhiser
21:24
Republicans’ racist, cat-eating conspiracy theory, briefly explained
Republicans at the highest levels of government and politics — including former President Donald Trump — are pushing a bizarre
Ian Millhiser
01:31
A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns
On Wednesday, a Trump judge in Kansas ruled that the Second Amendment invalidates criminal charges against a defendant charged with
