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News & analysis of decisions from America's lower courts.

Two right-wing judges seem to be trying to rig a US House race

By Ian Millhiser

A Supreme Court case about hotel websites could blow up much of US civil rights law

By Ian Millhiser

A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression

By Ian Millhiser

The fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants is caught in an endless court fight

By Li Zhou

The lawsuits seeking to keep drag queens legal, explained

By Ian Millhiser

America’s Trumpiest court just put itself in charge of nuclear safety

By Ian Millhiser

The edgelord of the federal judiciary

By Ian Millhiser

Will anyone trust these hyper-politicized courts to try Donald Trump?

By Ian Millhiser

How strong are the newest criminal charges against Donald Trump?

By Ian Millhiser

A new Supreme Court case could allow criminals to get guns without background checks

By Ian Millhiser

One of America’s top abortion rights lawyers was just confirmed as a federal judge

By Ian Millhiser

Aileen Cannon, the Trump judge assigned to oversee his trial, explained

By Ian Millhiser

Two of January 6’s most famous faces are getting serious sentences

By Li Zhou

Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood

By Ian Millhiser

A new Senate bill would curb Trump’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser

The most disingenuous argument in the case against abortion pills

By Rachel M. Cohen

How to understand competing medication abortion rulings

By Ellen Ioanes

The Supreme Court will decide if a whole federal agency is unconstitutional

By Ian Millhiser

Texas asks a Trump judge to declare most of the federal government unconstitutional

By Ian Millhiser

A top Senate Democrat has an extraordinarily radical plan to deal with Trump’s worst judge

By Ian Millhiser

A new Supreme Court decision leaves a Trump judge in charge of the Mexican border

By Ian Millhiser

Republicans can choose the judge who hears their lawsuits. DOJ wants to stop that.

By Ian Millhiser

A federal judge mocks the Supreme Court on abortion

By Ian Millhiser

It’s now legal for domestic abusers to own a gun in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

By Ian Millhiser

Trump’s worst judge is now a dangerous threat to press freedom

By Ian Millhiser

The Trumpiest court in America

By Ian Millhiser

America’s Trumpiest court doesn’t care if your right to a fair trial was violated

By Ian Millhiser

A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control

By Ian Millhiser

A Trump judge seized control of ICE, and the Supreme Court will decide whether to stop him

By Ian Millhiser

America’s Trumpiest court just declared an entire federal agency unconstitutional

By Ian Millhiser

3 takeaways from that Trump judge’s latest order in the Mar-a-Lago case

By Ian Millhiser

DOJ warns judge that delaying the FBI’s Trump investigation is a national security risk

By Ian Millhiser

Obamacare is under attack by Republican judges again. Here’s what’s at stake.

By Ian Millhiser

How Republicans rigged Texas’s federal courts against Biden

By Ian Millhiser

A wild new court decision would blow up much of the government’s ability to operate

By Ian Millhiser

The Trump judge’s opinion striking down the airplane mask mandate is a legal disaster

By Ian Millhiser

Just how much is Trump’s judiciary sabotaging the Biden presidency?

By Ian Millhiser

What Trump has done to the courts, explained

By Ian Millhiser

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