Ruth Marcus
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 15, 2026
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- Jul 12, 2026
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Mail-In Voting Survives (opens the original)
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With three bland, technocratic sentences, the Supreme Court saved the midterm elections. In an unsigned order issued on Monday evening, the Court rebuffed the Trump Administration’s bid to impose new rules on voting by mail, restrictions that the Administration claimed were necessary to prevent the phantom menace of voter fraud. Only the two most conservative Justices—Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas—noted their dissent. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that he believed the mail-in ballot requiremen
How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court (opens the original)
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In June, as a federal appeals-court panel considered whether to halt construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, Judge Patricia Millett posed a fanciful-sounding hypothetical to the Administration’s lawyer: What if a President bulldozed the Statue of Liberty? “Nothing can be done?” she asked the lawyer Yaakov Roth. “I think that’s right,” Roth replied. Later in the argument, Millett pressed Roth further about his contention that the federal courts have no authority to prevent
How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Childrenâs Legal Defense (opens the original)
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On August 4th, an odd notice appeared on the website of the Federal Register: âAnnouncement of the Intent to Award a Single-Source Cooperative Agreement to Burke Law Group, PLLC in Houston, Texas.â This was federal contract-speak for news that a Houston-based firm with only twenty-four lawyers was poised to receive an enormous, no-bid award, amounting to as much as a hundred and fifty million dollars over the next year, to represent unaccompanied minors detained at immigration facilities. Un
The Senateâs Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General (opens the original)
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On a practical level, the confirmation of Todd Blanche to be the nationâs eighty-eighth Attorney General does not matter much. Having already secured Senate approval to be the Deputy Attorney General, Blanche could have remained as the acting Attorney General until the end of President Donald Trumpâs second term. But the symbolism of his appointment to the top job matters; it signifies, in the language of the Constitution, the Senateâs âadvice and consent.â Most of the time, senators e
The Outlandish Case Against James Comey (opens the original)
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The prosecution’s central claim “would be laughable,” one former federal judge noted, if it weren’t intended “to deprive a man of his liberty.”
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