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Beware the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jun 2, 2025 A secretive set of emergency rulings is expanding presidential power and undermining precedent. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

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Time to Start Thinking About the Midterms

Bill Blum / Truthdig May 8, 2025 The Republican Party is attacking the right to vote with a raft of new election laws — and criminal penalties for breaking them. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Sunday, Bloody Sunday?

Bill Blum / Truthdig Apr 14, 2025 The defense and homeland security leaders have until April 20 to issue a report that could lead Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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Trump’s War on Lawyers Is Just Starting

Bill Blum / Truthdig Mar 24, 2025 If Trump succeeds in bringing his first targets to heel, expect him to widen the attack on attorneys, firms and legal advocacy organizations. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Napoleon in a Clown Nose

Bill Blum / Truthdig Feb 24, 2025 Trump’s assaults on the rule of law are crude and sometimes clownish, but the paradigm shift driving them has been carefully planned. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

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Birthright Citizenship and the Post-Constitutional Agenda

Bill Blum / Truthdig Feb 3, 2025 Don’t count on the Supreme Court to stop Donald Trump’s new executive order. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Garlanded with Failure

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jan 16, 2025 History will not remember the outgoing attorney general kindly. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

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Could Donald Trump Serve a Third Term as President?

Bill Blum / Truthdig Dec 9, 2024 If you think the 22nd Amendment would stop Trump from serving a third term, you probably haven’t read the amendment. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Donald Trump and the Election Subversion Plot of 1787

Bill Blum / Truthdig Oct 28, 2024 Trump is exploiting the deeply anti-democratic Electoral College as designed by the Founding Fathers. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Heller Skelter

Bill Blum / Truthdig Sep 17, 2024 How two Supreme Court decisions supercharged the nation’s gun violence epidemic. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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Scuttling ‘New York Times v. Sullivan’ Could Destroy Independent Media

Bill Blum / Truthdig Aug 29, 2024 The foundational precedent protecting freedom of the press may be on shaky ground. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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In Chicago, the Whole World Is Watching Again

Bill Blum / Truthdig Aug 20, 2024 But this week’s Democratic Convention is more like 1932 than 1968. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Recent Rulings Expose Supreme Court’s Anti-Worker Bias

Bill Blum / The Progressive Aug 8, 2018 There is no question that the Roberts court has made the task of union organizing more difficult. And if Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is confirmed, there is little doubt that difficulties will intensify. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Wraps Term With Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement and a Rash of Right-Wing Rulings

Bill Blum / The Progressive Jun 27, 2018 Here’s your recap of the jurisprudential carnage. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Ruling on Nonvoters in Ohio May Embolden Other States

Bill Blum / The Progressive Jun 17, 2018 The Supreme Court's recent decision on the state's so-called “Supplemental Process” law could lead others to take steps to disenfranchise minorities, the poor and people with disabilities, who tend to vote Democratic. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )