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The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.
A woman sits in her car, which police had seized for a crime she did not commit.
(Nam Y. Huh / AP Photo)
“Civil asset forfeiture” is the legal euphemism for when the cops steal your stuff. In this country, if you are stopped or arrested, the police can take all the personal
Tremaine Emory über seine Amtszeit bei Supreme, seinen Gesundheitszustand und was als nächstes kommt
Der Erzähler der schwarzen Streetwear-Geschichte überlebte Kanye, Supreme und eine Nahtoderfahrung. Aber kann er das Internet überleben?
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The Supreme Court’s 5 Male Justices Are Fully in the Tank for Trump
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April 25, 2024
During the former president’s immunity hearing, Roberts & Co. made clear that they’re going to do everything they can to delay Trump’s criminal reckoning.
Donald Trump believes that he has the Supreme Court in his back pocket. He is right. The court
No, Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court Is Not Our Friend
The former justice is calling on Americans to emulate the civility of Supreme Court justices, never mind the extreme harm some of those justices are doing.
Stephen Breyer, former associate justice of the US Supreme Court, speaks during a discussion at the Law Library of Congress in 2022.
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Earlier this week, retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer penned an op-ed in The New York Times about friendship among the court’s justices.
The Forced-Birthers Finally Went Too Far Even for This Supreme Court
A majority of the justices seemed highly skeptical of the ridiculous legal case against mifepristone.
Demonstrators outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
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There are a series of big lies at the heart of the conservative push to ban mifepristone, one of the two key drugs used to induce a medical abortion. The first lie is that pregnant people who take the pill are injured
The Supreme Court’s Supreme Betrayal
The Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson.
In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court impressed upon it an ahistorical misinterpretation that defies both its plain text and its original meaning. Despite disagreement within the Court that led to a 5–4 split among the justices over momentous but tangential issues that it had no need to reach in order to resolve the
The Supreme Court’s Colorado Opinion Is About Fear, Not Law
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You can’t always get what you want. What Mick Jagger said about life applies with equal, perhaps even greater, force to litigation. Like life, litigation has its ups and downs. It reflects human fears and frailties—because judges, lawyers, and litigants are human. Law is never perfect, and never will be.
And so it is with the United States
The Supreme Court Just Rejected the Constitution to Help Donald Trump
The court’s ruling that states can’t remove Trump from the ballot flies in the face of the 14th Amendment’s crystal-clear language.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union address in the House chamber on February 4, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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Article 14, Section 3 of the US Constitution is blunt and direct. It declares, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative
The Supreme Court Must Be Stopped
The court is fundamentally antidemocratic—and the only way to limit the damage it can do is to reduce its power, budget, and lack of accountability.
Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., on October 7, 2022.
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When Republican politicians try to take away abortion rights, they often lose. They lose special elections and ballot initiatives and maybe even presidential
Early NFL Power Rankings 2024: Chiefs reign supreme, but who’s next?
The NFL offseason began Sunday night after the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 to claim the Super Bowl LVIII title and (only slightly less importantly) the top spot in our postseason power rankings.
That means that all the fan bases that have been tuning out as their teams were eliminated from playoff contention or the playoffs are now back in the game. Hope is alive again for everyone with free agency and the draft coming into