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Getty; The Atlantic The Supreme Court Has Anointed Itself Czar of the Country’s COVID Rules
The conservative justices say that vaccine policy is Congress’s or the states’ job, but in practice they’re the ones calling the shots now.
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The Atlantic The Vaccine-Mandate Case Is About So Much More Than Vaccine Mandates
This could be the start of a major dismantling of the federal government.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Roe Could Take Down With It
The logic being used against Roe could weaken the legal foundations of many rights Americans value deeply.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Sleeper SCOTUS Case That Threatens the Separation of Church and State
Carson v. Makin could set a new precedent for how taxpayer dollars are used to fund religious education.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Case for Subpoenaing Members of Congress to Testify on the January 6 Insurrection
Democrats have strong constitutional arguments on their side.
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Getty; The Atlantic This Court Has Abandoned the Most Essential Element in American Democracy: Voters
Two recent decisions capture perfectly just how distorted the Court’s approach is.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty The Country Is On the Cusp of a New Era
America is inching closer to a possibility it has never seen before: the indictment and trial of a former president.
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David Arky / Glowimages / Getty / The … The Two Memos With Enormous Constitutional Consequences
What’s astonishing is that presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic 4 Ways to Prevent a Future Insurrection
The country will not survive this twice.
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Bettmann / Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Election Litigation Will Have Lasting Effects
These lawsuits have upended courts’ role in interpreting voting laws.
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Getty / The Atlantic Congress Needs to End This, Now
The legislative branch is constitutionally charged with checking abuses in the executive branch—and it must act to ensure a smooth transition.
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Lawsuits Are Politics Disguised as a Legal Strategy
His bald complaints are not viable legal claims—and the courts won’t save him.
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The Atlantic Nothing Changes at the Stroke of Midnight Tonight
Counting ballots takes time—and the process isn’t required to arbitrarily stop at the end of Election Day.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters For Trump, Power Is for Self-Preservation Only
During impeachment, Trump claimed far-reaching authority. In a national emergency, he throws up his hands.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Congress Has Lost Its Power Over Trump
Lawmakers had several different ways to limit the executive branch’s power. The president is sweeping all of them aside—and the Senate is going along with it.
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Reuters The Democrats Are Letting Roberts Off Too Easily
By doing nothing to ensure that Trump’s trial gets at the truth, the chief justice is taking a side. And the Democrats are just watching him do it.
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Seth Wenig / AP Senators Know They Don’t Know the Whole Story
As Trump’s impeachment trial looms, much of the relevant evidence remains just out of Americans’ sight.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Senate Is About to Abolish Impeachment
A Trump acquittal, coupled with Clinton’s, will gut Congress’s most important check on presidential power.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters When the Facts Are Not Debatable
The House’s two charges against Trump get right to the point, are easy to prove, and precisely describe the threat the president poses to American democracy.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The House Is Making This Fight Too Easy for Trump
Democrats should try harder to compel testimony from the president’s underlings.
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