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Trump Just Made Burning the Flag a Little Easier

August 30, 2025

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The Supreme Court Made a Bad Bet

August 28, 2025

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The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books

Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

August 20, 2025

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What a Democrat Could Do With Trump’s Power

Paul Rosenzweig

July 23, 2025

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Democracy Upside Down

July 22, 2025

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This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built

July 21, 2025

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The Power of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket

July 17, 2025

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The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something

July 17, 2025

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The Supreme Court Won’t Explain Itself

July 15, 2025

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Zohran Mamdani Reveals the Absurdity of Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

July 11, 2025

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The Court Comes to the Administration’s Rescue, Again

July 9, 2025

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The Inscrutable Supreme Court

Paul Rosenzweig

July 8, 2025

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A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin

Alan Z. Rozenshtein

July 8, 2025

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Liberals Are Going to Keep Losing at the Supreme Court

June 30, 2025

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The Tea Party Is Back (Maybe)

David A. Graham

June 27, 2025

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The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving

June 24, 2025

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The Supreme Court’s Inconsistency Is Very Revealing

Paul Rosenzweig

June 12, 2025

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Trump Is Right About Affirmative Action

Thomas Chatterton Williams

June 5, 2025

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Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard

May 30, 2025

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A Victory for Separation of Powers

May 30, 2025

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The Big, Beautiful Republican Shrug

May 24, 2025

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Project 2025’s Architects Are Close to Achieving a Major Goal

David A. Graham

May 23, 2025

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Trump Is Tired of Courts Telling Him He’s Breaking the Law

May 19, 2025

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The Question the Trump Administration Couldn’t Answer About Birthright Citizenship

May 16, 2025

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The Birthright-Citizenship Case Isn’t Really About Birthright Citizenship

Nicholas Bagley

May 16, 2025

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The Big Focus on Federal Judges Is Not a Good Sign

David A. Graham

May 8, 2025

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Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations

Conor Friedersdorf

May 3, 2025

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Time-Travel Thursdays

When Presidents Sought a Third (and Fourth) Term

May 1, 2025

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Schrödinger’s Detainees

David A. Graham

April 30, 2025

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Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History

April 25, 2025

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The Project 2025 Presidency

David A. Graham

April 24, 2025

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The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

April 24, 2025

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The Supreme Court Has No Army

Thomas P. Schmidt

April 23, 2025

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The Conservative Case for Leaving Harvard Alone

April 18, 2025

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What Recourse Does the Supreme Court Actually Have?

April 17, 2025

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What the Courts Can Still Do to Constrain Trump

Stephen I. Vladeck

April 15, 2025

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