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The Roberts-Trump feud is a distraction — Supreme Court already handed him the keys: Slate

While the public has been focused on the occasional high-profile clash between President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court, the court's conservative supermajority has been quietly using the shadow docket to hand Trump something far more consequential — effective control of the federal government — and legal analysts say that work is now largely complete.

That is the central argument of a new piece by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, who say the popular narrative of a principled Chief Justice John Roberts standing up to Trump conceals a far more troubling reality.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hammers Supreme Court colleagues over 'unusual' move

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took aim at her colleagues Monday with a blistering rebuke of what she labeled as their “unusual” move, one that she claimed had been done no more than three times in the last quarter century, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Jackson was referring to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in late April when it voted to effectively gut a provision of the Voting Rights Act designed to prohibit racially discriminatory voting policies. The court was deciding on a matter related to Louisiana's congressional district map, with Republicans having challenged a lower court’s order requiring state lawmakers to create a second majority-Black district.

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Confusion as Alito goes against Thomas in big case: 'I hate it when mommy and daddy fight'

A rare clash between Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas left the internet stunned on Wednesday after Alito dissented in the case involving a Taliban suicide bombing and whether federal or state law should take precedence, Newsweek reported.

Army specialist Winston T. Hencely filed the lawsuit after he suffered a fractured skull and brain injuries at the 2016 attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan. An Army investigation determined that military contractor Fluor Corporation was primarily responsible, claiming it had "negligently supervised Ahmad Nayeb, a Taliban operative who carried out the attack." He had reportedly been hired in a military initiative called "Afghan First," which required contractors to hire Afghans and help stimulate the local economy and improve the country's government.

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Impeachment plan for two GOP Supreme Court judges floated: 'Reasons for removal'

Democratic Party candidate Graham Platner has outlined a plan to impeach two sitting Supreme Court judges.

Platner, who is running for the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Maine, told NBC there are reasonable grounds for the removal of Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Alito and Thomas have faced significant ethical scrutiny during Trump's second term. Alito authored the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, a decision that sparked widespread controversy and calls for his recusal from abortion-related cases.

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'Stinging dissent!' Ketanji Brown Jackson scolds Supreme Court colleagues

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson rebuked her colleagues on Monday with a solo dissent, saying she "cannot fathom" the majority's decision in a case.

Brown Jackson criticized the high court's decision in the District of Columbia v. R.W. to reverse a lower court decision that said a police officer had violated the Fourth Amendment by stopping a person without reasonable suspicion, MS NOW reported. The justices wrote in an unsigned per curiam opinion that the D.C. appeals court's previous ruling had failed to consider the "totality of circumstances."

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