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power 2026-05-12
Trump Names His Own Justices in Public, Warns the Birthright Ruling Will Follow
Gorsuch and Barrett voted wrong on tariffs. Now they face the birthright case. Trump is not asking for loyalty. He is documenting a grievance.
power 2026-05-11
Trump Tells His Own Justices to Be 'Loyal.' The Court Hears It.
After SCOTUS killed his tariffs and is expected to kill his birthright citizenship order, Trump called out Gorsuch and Barrett by name. The court's independence question just got harder.
power 2026-04-21
Leaked Supreme Court Memos Show Roberts Built the Shadow Docket to Block Obama's Climate Policy
The documents don't just expose how a 2016 emergency stay happened. They reveal that the Chief Justice used internal persuasion campaigns to make unsigned, unreasoned emergency orders a standard tool of conservative governance.