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Legal Affairs
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What’s a Subpoena, and Why Should Trump Fear It?
A primer on one of the Democrats’ most powerful tools to rein in the president
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John Roberts (the Tortoise) Is Outrunning Trump (the Hare)
To advance the conservative agenda, Roberts invokes the fiction of a nonpartisan judiciary.
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Will Mueller Survive?
A conversation with former Associate White House Counsel Ian Bassin
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Liberal Voters Finally Notice the War Over the Courts — Decades After Conservatives Did
For decades, only social conservatives made the courts a make-or-break voting issue. Can liberals now up their game and win the war?
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The Only Good to Come of the Kavanaugh Fight
At least we will have greater clarity about a right-wing Supreme Court.
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Trump and McConnell Take Gaslighting to New Level in Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight
The use of an anti-Semitic trope to condemn protesters for exercising their First Amendment rights signals a turning point in the authoritarian trajectory of our politics.
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The Collins Conundrum
Maine’s court of public opinion considers the case of Brett Kavanaugh—and of Susan Collins, too.
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Enough Is Enough: Kavanaugh Should Not Sit on the Supreme Court
A law professor who works with juvenile offenders believes that the judge’s behavior during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing disqualifies him from a lifetime appointment.
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The Back-Up Way of Defeating Kavanaugh
Assume the worst: Let’s posit that within a week, despite the evidence of his abuses when young, his temperament when middle-aged, and his unyieldingly troglodytic beliefs at all times, Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. That, of course, would create the first hard-right majority on the Court since 1937—a majority dead-set against […]
