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A 5-4 SCOTUS rejects Alabama's effort to make executing intellectually disabled people easier

Lower courts tossed out Joseph Clifton Smith's death sentence after a finding him to be intellectually disabled. That decision stands, but SCOTUS refused to stop two other execution efforts.
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DOJ has escalated its attack on trans care for minors. Where could it be headed next?
As Rhode Island Hospital begins turning over documents to a far-right judge in Texas, a number of grand jury subpoenas have been issued and DOJ settled…
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Read Trump's "settlement" with the Trump admin to create a nearly $2 billion slush fund that Trump ultimately controls
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Frank Bisignano, the chief executive officer of the I.R.S., signed Monday's “settlement agreement.”
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The Supreme Court allowed Texas to kill a man the state earlier said it was not permitted to kill
Justice Jackson: "I cannot understand the Court’s rush to extinguish [life], much less in the circumstances of this case." And, for paid subscribers…
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SCOTUS keeps mifepristone available on current terms, including mailing of the abortion drug
Thomas and Alito each authored a separate dissent.
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After a string of losses in its anti-trans project, DOJ turns to grand jury subpoenas in Texas
At least seven judges have blocked invasive administrative subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care for minors, so DOJ appears to be trying a new…
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SCOTUS majority gives Alabama GOP a chance to use a map already found to be unconstitutional
Justice Sotomayor, for the three Dem appointees, noted in dissent that the majority acted "without regard for the confusion that will surely ensue." The…
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John Roberts likes being political. He just doesn't like the accountability that comes with it.
Roberts complained Wednesday that people view the justices as "political actors." They are, though, issuing political decisions that have real-world…
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The many problems with and caused by Monday's Supreme Court voting-case order
The rush to act in the wake of last week's Voting Rights Act decision has meant stretching, if not ignoring, the ordinary rules. And, for paid…
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Rhode Island's Child Advocate sues to block DOJ subpoena on Rhode Island Hospital
A federal judge in Texas ordered the hospital to turn over information about gender-affirming care provided to minors by May 14. Another in Rhode Island…
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