The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming
It was a wild week at the High Court (another seven days crammed with a year’s worth of news). SCOTUS heard cases about bump stocks, and how Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would do as Facebook conte...
2 Mar 202458min
A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election
Dahlia Lithwick is drinking from the firehose of legal news again and this week is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen to figure out why we’re all still hanging on for the Supreme Court to mak...
24 Feb 202451min
Fani Willis and a Tale of Two Ethics Violations
The future of the Fulton County, Georgia election subversion case against Donald J. Trump and many many accused co-conspirators was cast into doubt this week as the court saw evidentiary hearings in t...
17 Feb 202450min
Is SCOTUS Afraid of Holding Trump to Account?
Oral arguments at the Supreme Court Thursday in Trump v. Anderson revealed a lot about some of the justices’ commitment to the primacy of originalism. Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Respon...
10 Feb 202450min
The Trump Trials Doomsday Clock Just Ticked a Second Closer to Midnight
Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock the full version of this emergency episode.After weeks of waiting, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a decision in Donald J Trump’s appeal for sweeping ...
6 Feb 20246min
The Neglected Constitutional History That Disqualifies Trump
There haven’t been that many insurrections in the United States, which means the case law ahead of next week’s arguments in Trump v. Anderson (the 14th Amendment, Section 3 disqualification case) is p...
3 Feb 202450min
Donald Trump and the Apex of MAGA Misogyny
Despite Donald Trump’s efforts, there will be a significant cost for his continued defamation of E. Jean Carroll (And it’s $83.3 million!!). For much of the proceedings he sat behind Carroll muttering...
27 Jan 202432min
Greg Abbott and the Battle for the Texas Border
The immigration fight on the U.S. - Mexico border keeps getting uglier - not between the U.S. and its southern neighbor, Mexico, but between the federal government and a Texas administration apparentl...
20 Jan 202448min
