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SCOTUS

History Will Judge: A Look at Garland’s Nomination in Polarized Washington

Ahmed ElbenniFebruary 22, 2017February 28, 2017

The GOP’s obstruction of Garland was genuinely unprecedented and a threat to the institutional integrity of the Supreme Court.

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Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt: Undue Burden in the Lone Star State

Stella ShannonJune 29, 2016June 29, 2016

Stella Shannon explains what the most recent Supreme Court decision on abortion means for Texas and for the nation.

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Blocking Supreme Court Nominees Makes Sense (That’s Why Both Parties are Willing to Do It)

Bernard StanfordMarch 3, 2016March 3, 2016

It is arguably the countries’ most powerful institution, why wouldn’t one party try to control it?

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Speech Rights Are Gay Rights

Aaron SibariumJuly 13, 2015July 13, 2015

Roberts and Thomas may be on the wrong side of history, but their understanding of democracy and the freedoms it confers should not be dismissed as meaningless abstraction.

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Voting for Your Supreme Court

Jackie SalzingerJuly 7, 2015July 13, 2015

The next president will decide whether or not to unleash the floodgates of judicial progress.

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Love Wins at the Supreme Court

Rita WangJune 28, 2015June 28, 2015

“They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law,” Justice Kennedy wrote. “The Constitution grants them that right.”

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SCOTUS Saves Republicans from Themselves

Kyle RanieriJune 27, 2015

With the Court’s ruling this past week on the Affordable Care Act, Republicans don’t have to worry about millions of Americans losing their coverage.

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SCOTUS Ruling Is About Women, Not God

Caroline PosnerJuly 1, 2014July 24, 2014

What Alito and the rest of the all-male majority don’t seem to understand is that birth control requires both immediacy and consistency.

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