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Legal (page 2)

September 19, 2023 5:32 am

Is One of the Charges Against Hunter Biden Unconstitutional?

How strange that the GOP’s great guardians of the Second Amendment aren’t leaping to his defense.
Kimberly Wehle
September 12, 2023 5:32 am

Alabama’s Republicans: Lawless Lawmakers

They’re so desperate to protect their gerrymandered map, they’re disobeying the U.S. Supreme Court.
Kimberly Wehle
September 6, 2023 5:32 am

Clarence Thomas’s Flimsy Defense

Newly filed revisions to financial disclosure forms give a sense for the tactics the embattled justice is using to defend…
Dennis Aftergut
July 11, 2023 5:31 am

So Much for Conservative Judicial Restraint

Making sense of a Supreme Court role reversal on the issue of standing.
Corbin Barthold
July 10, 2023 5:31 am

The Right-Wing Lawsuit That’s Forced the Feds to Stop Talking to Social Media Firms

A deeply flawed injunction in response to paranoia about censorship.
Kimberly Wehle
July 5, 2023 5:31 am

How Far Did SCOTUS Go This Term?

From affirmative action to anti-discrimination laws to animal welfare, here are eight consequential decisions from the just-ended Supreme Court year.
Kimberly Wehle
June 26, 2023 5:31 am

Why the Supreme Court Handed Biden an Immigration Win

Brett Kavanaugh pasted together a majority for an eminently reasonable ruling.
Kimberly Wehle
June 21, 2023 5:32 am

Scoring Trump, Biden, and Hillary on Handling Classified Documents

Or: Taking whataboutism seriously.
Philip Rotner
June 12, 2023 5:31 am

Is the Law Coming for Erik Prince at Last?

The MAGA mercenary lord faces a subpoena from federal investigators and an indictment from a small Austrian city—here’s why this…
Ann Marlowe
June 5, 2023 5:31 am

Harlan Crow’s Weak Argument for Refusing to Cooperate with Senate Investigators

The billionaire claims the Constitution forbids Congress from investigating the ethics of his financial arrangements with Justice Clarence Thomas.
Kimberly Wehle