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Trump Isn’t Just Defying the Constitution. He’s Undermining SCOTUS.

Dahlia Lithwick

The president defended his national emergency by boasting that he’ll win at the Supreme Court because it’s full of his judges.

There Is No National Emergency at the Border Other Than Tragedies of Trump’s Own Creation

Peter M. Shane

What We Know About the Aurora Warehouse Gunman

Molly Olmstead

Pope Makes Unprecedented Move of Defrocking Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Over Sex Abuse

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Religion and the Supreme Court in Two Cases: Crosses and Chaplains

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Aaron Mak

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Molly Olmstead

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