The New Republic

1 day ago | newrepublic.com | Melissa Gira Grant

Just a few months ago, Missouri voters approved a ballot measure to protect abortion rights. That measure, known as Amendment 3, added a “reproductive freedom” amendment to the state constitution. It was crafted to offer stronger legal protections for abortion than existed under Roe v. Wade, according to campaigners, and to end the state’s near-total abortion ban, which had been triggered by the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe.

2 days ago | newrepublic.com | Matt Ford

When can the police enter a person’s home without a warrant? The Fourth Amendment and the various judicial exceptions to it don’t provide a clear answer. But the Supreme Court may provide some clarity next term after it agreed on Monday to hear a Fourth Amendment case next term involving wellness checks, suicide-by-cop threats, and warrantless intrusions into the home. Case v. Montana began as many Fourth Amendment cases do: with a man, a gun, and a romantic partner.

3 days ago | newrepublic.com | Malcolm Ferguson

Senior State Department staffer Darren Beattie, a passionate Putin supporter behind the move to dismantle a key agency fighting Russian propaganda, is married to a Russian woman whose uncle is a longtime Kremlin ally, according to The Telegraph. Yulia Kirillova grew up in Moscow, studied abroad in North America, and married Beattie in 2021 in Florida. She moved to D.C. in January. Her uncle Sergei Cherniko is a drinks magnate who had an estimated net worth of $150 million in 2005.

3 days ago | newrepublic.com | Matt Ford

Last week’s ruling by an obscure federal court on President Donald Trump’s tariff policy may be the most critical judicial decision of these first few months of Trump’s second term. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade held that Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in April were unlawful, effectively striking down the White House’s flagship economic policy.

3 days ago | newrepublic.com | Daoud Kuttab

While the world is rightly outraged by the daily killings and starvation inflicted by Israel on Palestinians in Gaza, this must not blind us to the unjustified violence occurring elsewhere in the name of the freedom of Palestine. Recent acts such as the Molotov cocktail attack in Colorado and the shooting of two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C., must be condemned unequivocally. These actions are morally wrong and politically harmful.