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Iran Threatens New Offensive as Memorandum of Understanding with...

SCOTUS’ Narrow Protection of the Fed Means Cook, and Fed Independence, Still at Risk 

Even though the Supreme Court ruled Monday, in Cook v. Trump, that the president couldn’t remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa...

Dems Secs of State Laud Court Ruling on Trump’s Mail-In Voting Overreach: ‘States Run Elections, Not Trump’

Democratic Secretaries of State are hailing a Thursday court ruling shutting down key components of Trump’s March executive order that,...

Has the Census Become a ‘Woke’ Tool of ‘Neo-Marxist Ideologies’? We Investigate

An important new story by Layla A. Jones out this morning shows yet another way right-wing conspiracy theories may be...

One Quick Trick

The key paragraph from this bizarre Josh Kovensky story about how Ken Paxton, the Trump DOJ, and a federal judge...

Paxton, the DOJ, and a Friendly Judge Took Five Hours to Box in Future Presidents

On Monday, the Trump administration scored a quiet win in court. It did so in complete control of the circumstances:...

SCOTUS Lets Trump End Protected Status for Endangered Syrian and Haitian Refugees

The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority ruled Thursday that courts cannot review the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate Temporary...

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