A violent anti-migrant propaganda movie titled Citizen Vigilante was a smash hit on Apple and Amazon over the weekend, and the online right is celebrating. The film, directed by a man frequently described as the world’s worst director and starring disgraced actor Armie Hammer, blew up after Elon Musk began promoting it on X. It […]

Just what President Donald Trump needed: more unchecked power.  In the Supreme Court’s new Trump vs. Slaughter opinion, the court ruled that the president’s firing of the Federal Trade Commission’s Rebecca Slaughter was lawful — even though he did not follow Congress’s explicit requirement that FTC commissioners might only be dismissed “for inefficiency, neglect of […]

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that states may bar transgender women from competing on women’s sports teams at secondary schools, colleges, and universities. More than two dozen states have laws barring trans athletes from competing on teams that do not align with their sex assigned at birth. The results were not surprising. Two years […]

There is no question in US law that is clearly or more firmly settled than the question of whether people born in the United States are citizens of this country. The 14th Amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United […]

Editor’s note: On June 30, Vox published a story mentioning Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s retirement based on inaccurate reporting from another outlet and has since retracted the story.