Ian Millhiser

MAGA’s top lawyer just gave a sitting GOP senator the biggest scare of his career No lawyer has done more in the last decade to advance a distinctly MAGA approach to the Constitution than Ken Paxton.

MAGA’s top lawyer just gave a sitting GOP senator the biggest scare of his career

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The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law The Court’s latest ruling invokes a power that corrupts every court that wields it.

"Teaching algebra was hard enough before the Supreme Court ordered every public school teacher to become an enforcer of religious orthodoxy." www.vox.com/politics/481...

The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law The Court’s latest ruling invokes a power that corrupts every court that wields it.

"The Supreme Court’s Republican majority just did the legal equivalent of grabbing J.R.R. Tolkien’s One Ring, placing it on their collective fingers, and dancing around singing, 'I just can’t wait to become a Nazgûl.'” www.vox.com/politics/481...

The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law The Court’s latest ruling invokes a power that corrupts every court that wields it.

The Supreme Court’s Republicans just seized the most dangerous power in constitutional law www.vox.com/politics/481...

You can blame the Founding Fathers for Trump’s ability to attack Iran without Congressional approval. Why? They didn’t expect the US to have a standing army, which led them to create a Constitution unprepared for the US’s military power.

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The Supreme Court appears likely to let stoners own guns Gun lovers may soon have the right to bear bongs.

Gun lovers may soon have the right to bear bongs

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The Supreme Court appears likely to let stoners own guns Gun lovers may soon have the right to bear bongs.

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The Republican justices are fighting over who should really run the government There are three camps: The judicial supremacists, the GOP partisans, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Why Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett are fighting www.vox.com/politics/480...

The Supreme Court will decide if marijuana users may be barred from owning guns Do stoners have a right to bear arms?

The Supreme Court is about to decide if stoners have a right to bear arms

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Why a Republican Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs Trump loses, and the Democratic justices didn’t need to concede anything.

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A new Supreme Court gerrymandering case is nightmare fuel for Democrats A questionable lawsuit seeking to redraw a Republican district risks turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering campaign.

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The MAGA court decision that just supercharged ICE America’s Trumpiest court just gave Trump a dangerous new weapon.

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Why a Republican Supreme Court just handed a victory to Democrats The short answer is that this Supreme Court loves gerrymandering more than it hates Democrats.

"If a state passed a law called the 'White Supremacist We Want to Bring Back Jim Crow, So These Maps Were Drawn by the Ku Klux Klan Act of 2026,' it is likely that at least two of the Court’s Republicans would vote to strike it down." www.vox.com/politics/478...

Why a Republican Supreme Court just handed a victory to Democrats The short answer is that this Supreme Court loves gerrymandering more than it hates Democrats.

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Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis has broken the Justice Department This DOJ is no longer capable of doing its job.

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Republicans can’t stop doing the one thing they should fear most The Supreme Court is the GOP’s most durable power center. It makes no sense for them to endanger that source of power.

Republicans are normalizing the one reform they should fear most www.vox.com/politics/477...

The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander The Republican justices already upheld Texas’s gerrymander, now we’ll find out if the same rules apply to blue states.

The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander www.vox.com/politics/476...

The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students Plaintiffs from the religious right are asking the Republican justices to seize control of public schools.

The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students www.vox.com/politics/476...

Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man? Trump’s paramilitary forces just shot and killed another person in Minneapolis.

Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man? www.vox.com/policy/47637...

The Supreme Court is likely to hand Trump a rare loss on the Federal Reserve Trump’s attempt to bully the Federal Reserve got an icy reception from the justices.

Trump’s attempt to bully the Federal Reserve got an icy reception from the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart It’s obvious that the Court isn’t actually trying to come up with a legal rule that makes sense.

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive principles can both be true at the same time.

The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart It’s obvious that the Court isn’t actually trying to come up with a legal rule that makes sense.

The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart www.vox.com/politics/475...

The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights Trans athletes always faced a difficult road in this Court.

The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights www.vox.com/politics/475...

The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible Chief Justice Roberts owes Powell an apology.

The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible www.vox.com/politics/474...

Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week Trump picked the worst possible time to go after Jerome Powell.

Trump picked the worst possible time to go after Jerome Powell.

The Supreme Court was already set to hear a case about his war on the Fed next week.

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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal immigration officer who just killed a woman? The short answer is that it is unclear.

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Trump’s revenge campaign is now putting the entire Justice Department at risk One of Trump’s most high-profile DOJ appointments faces a rare disciplinary threat from the bench.

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Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare Oops.

Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare.

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Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare Oops.

Oops.

Republicans accidentally legalized abortion while trying to kill Obamacare

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The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss Even some of the Court’s Republicans ruled that his attempt to use troops against US citizens went too far.

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