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  Eventually, the Supreme Court will have to face this question squarely: If Trump can selectively go after his enemies without sufficient e...

  The shadow docket provides no rationale for overruling the detailed and persuasive opinions of the district court and the court of appeals...

  Remember when that old comedian Mitch McConnell voted against convicting Trump for his January 6 coup attempt and explained his vote as lo...

  St. Isidore of Seville Amy Coney Barrett has already recused herself from  St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond , th...

  Paul Newby The people of North Carolina won in Moore v. Harper . The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a state legislature can't do anythin...

  Linda Greenhouse, long-time Supreme Court reporter and an expert on its history, titled an opinion piece , "Is There Any Twinge of Re...

  BREAKING NEWS: Weather WASHINGTON, May 1, 2023 -- The Supreme Court announced it will hear a case that could significantly scale back fede...

  Last Friday, some good folks from Common Cause were in Boone to sound the alarm about Moore v. Harper, the election law case arising out ...

 

  A law prohibiting abortions after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy has been on the books in North Carolina in some form since 1973. But it ...

  The conservative super-majority on the US Supreme Court has already signaled that they'll be only too happy to take up next term the ...

 

  The dead eyes of an ideologue The only thing keeping North Carolina from becoming Mississippi is Roy Cooper and a veto-sustaining minority...

  I was just reading reporting by Jonathan Weisman about how congressional Republicans, who've spent decades spitting mad about Roe v. ...

  It's exhausting. Finding the energy to be outraged all over again. Let alone motivated to take action  -- and what action would that b...

  "Unreasoned, inconsistent and impossible to defend” Bounty hunters The Supreme Court refused just before midnight on Wednesday to blo...

  Part of the pressure campaign the Trumpists have mounted to force the US Supreme Court to declare Trump reelected is an amicus brief appe...

  Chief Justice John Roberts, in the minority now Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York had imposed very tight restrictions on some church servi...

  Berger/Moore In a 5-3 decision yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to order North Carolina to return to an old dead...

  I believe Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell waited a respectable one hour after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg before announcing th...