Ian Millhiser

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When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Trump's attempt to ignore the 14th Amendment, there can be no room for equivocating. Less than three …

5 days ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

Top officials within the Justice Department, the State Department, and possibly even the White House may be barrelling toward a criminal conviction for contempt of court. It is far from clear, however, whether anything will happen to them even if they are convicted.

1 week ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority certainly seems eager to make taxpayers fund religious education. Over the past few decades, the Court has slowly expanded the ability of religious schools to access public money. Most recently, in Carson v. Makin (2022), the Court held that states that provide tuition vouchers that pay for private education must allow those vouchers to be spent on religious private schools.

1 week ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

Trump v. Wilcox, a case now pending on the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” asks whether several federal agencies that are supposed to enjoy a degree of independence from the president should be stripped of that independence. Wilcox is the latest in Supreme Court cases involving what’s known as the “unitary executive” theory, which, in its strongest form, would give presidents legal control over every federal job that’s not part of Congress or the judiciary.

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11 hours agoJohn Roberts can't control the monster he madeThe only word the Supreme Court left out of its order last week to return a wrongfully deported Salvadoran migrant from the prison where he is being held in El Salvador was “please.” To briefly recap, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran migrant, is married to a U.S. citizen and has one child.