Ian Millhiser

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

During an oral argument on Wednesday, the Supreme Court appeared all but certain to divide along party lines in a case that seeks to fundamentally expand the role religion plays in American public schools. This isn’t surprising: Almost immediately after Republicans gained a supermajority on the Supreme Court, they started rewriting the Court’s religion decisions to make them more favorable to the religious right.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ian Millhiser

In their words: What judges and Trump's government say about Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportationPresident Donald Trump says he “could” bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador if he wanted to. But he insists the 29-year-old Salvadoran, who had been living in Maryland and is married to an American citizen, is a member of the violent MS-13 gang and the kind of person who should not be …

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

Eight years ago, at the dawn of the first Trump presidency, the White House was the locus of an ambitious project to weaken the president. Justice Antonin Scalia was dead. GOP senators had kept his seat on the Supreme Court vacant for more than a year, in order to ensure that it would be filled by a Republican. And President Donald Trump’s top legal aides were weighing who he should appoint. SCOTUS, ExplainedGet the latest developments on the US Supreme Court from senior correspondent Ian Millhiser.

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

Almost immediately after he began his second term, President Donald Trump ordered the military to ban transgender people from serving in the US military. Under the Defense Department’s policy implementing this order, the military was supposed to start firing trans service members on March 26, although those firings were halted by a court order. That court order, in a case known as United States v. Shilling, is now before the Supreme Court.

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

Three years ago, Montgomery County, Maryland, approved several books with LGBTQ characters for use in public school classrooms. Not much else is known about these books, how they have been used, when they were used in lessons, or how teachers plan to use them in the future. These questions have come before lower courts, but the Supreme Court decided to hear a case — Mahmoud v.