McCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser in Trump’s first term, is now joining the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Last year, McCormick briefly joined Meta’s board of directors before leaving in December. McCormick is married to Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania, who was elected as a Republican to the Senate […]
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Madness Will Haunt Us for Generations
“Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose,” Lincoln continued. “If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may […]
Read MoreThis Could Be the Year the Supreme Court Pushes Back on Trump
On an intellectual level, this should be an easy case for the justices. Undocumented immigrants and visa recipients are indisputably “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. They can be taxed, arrested, fined, imprisoned, executed, and much more while on U.S. soil. There is also ample precedent supporting birthright citizenship, including Supreme Court rulings […]
Read MoreWyoming Supreme Court Overturns Country’s First Abortion Pill Ban
March 12, 2025: Greenland’s parliamentary elections result in a massive win for the pro-independence movement. The center-right Demokraatit Party, which supports a local business-driven approach to gaining independence, wins nearly 30 percent of the vote. The most aggressively pro-independence party, Naleraq, wins 25 percent. “We don’t want to be Americans. No, we don’t want to […]
Read MoreThe Right-Wing Justices Know Their Favorite Legal Theory Is Bunk
Quite apart from such such agencies’ subservience to the current White House, screeds like Kavanaugh’s, against the “headless fourth branch” leave out the landmark accountability regime that the post-New Deal Congress enacted. This is the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, or APA, which gives targets of agency actions statutory rights, enforceable in court—to receive notice, to […]
Read MoreHow the Supreme Court’s Judicial Sanewashing Wrecked the Legal System
According to the sanewashed facts in Shelby County, the VRA was no longer necessary because racially discriminatory voting practices were “rare” and the remaining sections of the statute would be sufficient to protect minority voting rights. In the decade since the Court offered those tepid reassurances, states formerly subject to the VRA’s preclearance requirements have […]
Read MoreSupreme Court Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard In Chicago
Source: The Washington Post / Getty In a surprising turn, the Supreme Court has blocked President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Chicago. According to The New York Times, the unsigned ruling cited an 1878 law that bans the use of the military for domestic policing as the reason they refused to grant […]
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The Trump Judge Who Tried to Rewrite the Bill of Rights
The editor of the Aurora, Wm. Duane, pretends that he is an American Citizen, saying that he was born in Vermont, but was when a child, taken back with them to Ireland, where he was educated. But I understand the facts to be, That he went from American prior to our revolution, remained in the British […]
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John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
“‘Decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch will generally characterize the proceedings of one man in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number,’” he wrote, quoting from No. 70. “The centralization of authority in the president alone is particularly crucial in matters of national defense, war, and foreign policy choices, where a […]
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The Supreme Court Will Get Another Shot at Church-State Separation
At issue in Drummond were two significant constitutional questions. First: Are privately run charter schools state actors if they are publicly approved and funded? And second: If they are public, does the First Amendment’s free exercise clause prohibit a state from excluding religious schools from its charter school program—or does the establishment clause require it […]
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For Once, the Supreme Court May Not Give Republicans What They Want
A group of challengers, including the GOP’s Senate campaign-finance arm and Vice President J.D. Vance, argued that the ban violates their First Amendment rights to political speech through campaign spending. “The coordinated party spending limits are at war with this Court’s recent First Amendment cases,” Noel Francisco, who argued on behalf of the plaintiffs, told […]
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Sotomayor Rips Lawyer Who Claims Elon Musk’s DOGE Job Wasn’t Shady
Right-wingers have been doing the “Free Tina” thing for some time now. Peters is currently serving nine years in jail for granting unauthorized access to Colorado voting machines and being charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, two counts of conspiracy to commit attempting to influence a public servant, first-degree official […]
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The Supreme Court Is Set to Pick Financial Predators Over the People
This does not appear to have deterred the justices. If anything, it may have encouraged them. Sauer expressed concern at one point about the “real-world consequences” of agencies “exercising enormous governmental authority with a great deal of control over individuals and small and large businesses and so forth” if they “ultimately do not answer to […]
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Supreme Court Sounds Ready to Let Trump Control All Federal Agencies
Last year, as a lawyer for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, Bondi filed a brief with the Supreme Court writing, “Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders.” “The military would not carry out a patently unlawful order from the president to kill nonmilitary targets. Indeed, service members are […]
Read MoreSupreme Court Sounds Ready to Give Trump a Terrifying New Power
It’s not looking so good for former Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—or any Democratic appointees at federal agencies. While hearing arguments Monday in a case challenging Slaughter’s removal earlier this year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed primed to overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 1935 case that established Congress can pass laws limiting […]
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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Use Racially Gerrymandered Map In Midterms
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty In news that can be filed under “disappointing, but not surprising,” the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling allowing Texas to use its recently redistricted map in the 2026 midterms. According to CBS News, the ruling came after a panel of federal judges struck down the map last month. In […]
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Get Closer to Ending Birthright Citizenship
“I just think being off for 50 days, there was no continuity. Nobody was here. There was nobody like, ‘Hey, you’re doing great. Keep it up,’” the lawmaker continued. “Everyone being back in their district, there was a loneliness. A lot of members may have felt like we’re on our own.” Johnson shocked the halls […]
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Supreme Court’s Texas Map Ruling Could Be Good News for California
Providing full-time security detail for his girlfriend, and pulling a SWAT team away from their job is questionable use of government resources at best. To then demand that security detail escort his girlfriend’s friend goes even further. Former FBI agents and law enforcement officials told MS NOW that Patel’s alleged actions are completely off-base. “Not […]
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Supreme Court’s Texas Map Ruling Hints at Good News for California
Providing full-time security detail for his girlfriend, and pulling a SWAT team away from their job is questionable use of government resources at best. To then demand that security detail escort his girlfriend’s friend goes even further. Former FBI agents and law enforcement officials told MS NOW that Patel’s alleged actions are completely off-base. “Not […]
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The Blacklisted Pentagon Press Is Taking Pete Hegseth to Court
At the crux of the lawsuit is that the Pentagon is engaging in viewpoint discrimination, which is generally forbidden by the First Amendment. Defense Department officials are not required to give out any press credentials at all, nor must they grant access to the Pentagon building itself. The CIA, for obvious reasons, does not have […]
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Trump’s Federal Prosecutor Picks Keep Backfiring on Him
When Habba’s 120-day term expired in July, the district’s judges declined to extend her appointment and instead elected Desiree Leigh Grace, the district’s first assistant U.S. attorney, to serve in an interim role. That choice sparked a flurry of moves to re-install Habba as the interim U.S. attorney. Bondi fired Grace from her position as […]
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Don’t Expect a Trump “Tariff Check” Anytime Soon
Economic experts, meanwhile, note that any discussion of these payments and their potential impact is checkered with caveats, marked by uncertainty and worries about a potential inflationary impact. The Trump administration has not offered details about how the payments would be structured—for example, what the specific income cap would be, or whether they would be […]
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The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
What do judicial ethics codes have to do with climate deception? It all comes down to simple math. Every year, the Supreme Court receives many thousands of cert petitions. To grant a writ of certiorari, four of the nine justices must agree to take one of these cases. Given that lower threshold, any time a […]
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Trump Suffers Supreme Court Blow in Quest to Control Copyright Office
This time, though, Perlmutter’s position has the word “Congress” in it, and she argued in court that this meant she was part of the legislative branch of government and thus couldn’t be fired from the executive branch. Perlmutter’s lawsuit also noted that Trump disagreed with a report she authored, in which she said that tech […]
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The Lawyer Who Killed Roe Is About to Get a Promotion
In 303 Creative, Hawley argued that a web designer should be allowed to exclude LGBTQ+ customers despite a Colorado law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Despite the fact that the designer had not even started her wedding web design business and no LGBTQ+ client had actually approached her to design their website, […]
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A Federal Judge Melted Down in Texas’s Gerrymandering Wars
Perhaps the most striking moment comes five pages in, when Smith asked readers to forgive his haste and any flaws in his reasoning or demeanor that might come with it. “In the interest of time, this dissent is, admittedly, disjointed,” Smith wrote. “Usually, in dissenting from an opinion of this length, I would spend more […]
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MAGA’s State-by-State Plot to Butcher Democracy
Four years later, in a racial gerrymandering case from Alabama, Allen v. Milligan (formerly Merrill v. Milligan), Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh worked together to invite the Voting Rights Act case they really wanted. Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the liberals to order an Alabama map that created two Black opportunity districts, while patiently teeing up the challenge they […]
Read MoreNeil Gorsuch’s Lonely Quest to Fix Indian Law
When Crow Dog’s case reached the high court, the justices reaffirmed tribal sovereignty by concluding that federal courts did not have jurisdiction over a purely internal matter for the Lakota. (Crimes involving non-members on tribal land or occurring between tribal members on non-tribal land could and can still be prosecuted.) In response, Congress enacted the […]
Read MoreLeavitt Goes on Wild Rant When Asked About Trump Cutting Off SNAP
“There’s a total of about 23,000 documents.… We obviously released some today, we’ll be releasing additional documents likely later today,” Garcia said. “The important thing here is that we know, and we’ve been demanding that Donald Trump and the DOJ release the full Epstein files.” Garcia continued, “In what’s been released today—which obviously is quite […]
Read MoreThe Sports-Betting Crisis is the Supreme Court’s Fault
But gambling scandals by individual players and coaches all but disappeared after the enactment of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or PASPA. Congress enacted the law in 1992 amid widespread concern over sports betting and its corrosive influence. Law enforcement, religious leaders, and other civic groups supported the bans. Gary Bettman, the current […]
Read MoreTrump Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs as Bizarre SCOTUS Rant Backfires
Signs are mounting that the Supreme Court might invalidate President Trump’s tariffs, and he’s clearly on edge about it. Trump just vented wildly about the case on Truth Social, but he made a mess of it: In one rant, he claimed his tariffs have pulled in $2 trillion in revenues. In a second rant only […]
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