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Chris Wattie / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing Didn’t Change Anything
After a week of political theater in the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump’s nominee is back where he started: on his way to the Supreme Court.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Democrats Are Coming After Kavanaugh on Abortion
The Supreme Court hearings are a preview of the party’s midterm strategy, with lawmakers placing the issue front and center. But it’s far from clear that their apocalyptic rhetoric will actually work.
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Alex Wroblewski / Reuters Kavanaugh Has a Strong Chance of Confirmation—and of Becoming an Election Rallying Cry
The Supreme Court nominee has become a symbol of the president’s quiet judicial legacy and the anti-Trump resistance.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Only Republican Opposing Brett Kavanaugh
Representative Justin Amash is the sole member of Congress who's come out against the Supreme Court nominee, citing his record on privacy. Can he get Senator Rand Paul to join him?
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Alex Brandon / AP The Precedent That Democrats Want Brett Kavanaugh to Break
Modern Supreme Court nominees never discuss how they feel about specific cases. Chuck Schumer believes that should change when President Trump’s pick faces the Senate.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh Has GOP Bona Fides—and a Controversial Record
Trump's Supreme Court pick faces a brutal nomination fight ahead.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP An Epic Supreme Court Decision on Employment
The 5-4 ruling in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis could weaken workplace protections—and the justices on both sides knew it.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Can a Lawyer Declare His Client Guilty?
The Supreme Court considered whether lawyers can decide what is best for clients and ignore their wishes.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court's Choice on Partisan Gerrymandering
Two cases offer very different solutions to a perennial problem of politicians attempting to cement themselves in power.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP A Battle Over Abortion and Free Speech
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case over California’s regulation of “crisis pregnancy centers,” which try to talk their clients out of ending their pregnancies.
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Carlos Osorio / AP Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Up About #MeToo, Voting Rights, and Millennials
The Supreme Court justice talks about sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and the cases she’d like to see overturned.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Bogus 'Free Speech' Argument Against Unions
The latest attempt to use the Supreme Court to eviscerate a key liberal constituency seems like a thoroughly partisan operation.
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Keith Srakocic / AP Contempt for Court
Republican lawmakers are increasingly showing disdain for decisions made by the judicial branch—and by extension the rule of law.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters Bob Menendez Is Off the Hook
The Justice Department filed to dismiss the corruption charges against the New Jersey Democrat.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Can Government Officials Have You Arrested for Speaking to Them?
The Supreme Court faces a test of the authority of politicians to use police to silence their critics.
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Haraz Ghanbari / AP Purged for Not Voting
In a case with huge implications for the franchise, the Supreme Court will decide whether states can remove voters from the rolls after two years without casting a ballot.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court's Travel Ban Off-Ramp
A federal ruling offers the justices a clever way to reject Trump’s travel ban without limiting government power over immigration.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Using 'Free Speech' to Trump Civil Rights
Conservatives are attempting to use the First Amendment not as an instrument of freedom and self-government but as a corporate privilege.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The National-Security-Law Expert Who Blocked Trump's Travel Ban
The former federal prosecutor and deputy counsel to the Department of Homeland Security writes that the prohibition violates the Constitution.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Will the Supreme Court Legitimize Partisan Gerrymandering?
An upcoming case shows how American democracy is threatened by the creativity of those who would try to disenfranchise the other side’s voters.
