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This is why you're wrong about the Supreme Court and Trump | Opinion

The Supreme Court's undertaking is oriented toward originalism. This often overlaps with Republican partisan outcomes – it doesn't always. Read More

Supreme Court weighs an expansion of Trump's power: From the Politics Desk

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign ... Read More

Supreme Court considers vastly expanding the president’s powers

The Supreme Court is considering whether President Trump should be able to fire the head of the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies without cause. We discuss why Congress created ... Read More

We Seem to Have the Supreme Court’s Originalism Fail of the Term

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could upend how the federal government has been run for over a century. In Trump v. Slaughter, a challenge to the president’s firing of a ... Read More

The Supreme Court and Executive Power

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about the justices and unitary executive theory. Also: The danger posed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read More

We’re Trying to Find a Line the Supreme Court Won’t Cross

In practice, that has meant more expert, technocratic leadership. It has meant more corporate regulation than Republicans tend to like. And it has meant that agencies like the F.T.C. and the F.C.C. Read More

Supreme Court questions limits on political party spending in federal elections, hearing GOP appeal

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how ... Read More

Strike down Voting Rights Act to make politics sane again | Opinion

An argument for why the Supreme Court should strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act for a better brand of politics. Read More

The Supreme Court’s major cases during the 2025-2026 term

The Supreme Court will take up Trump-related cases in its new term, as well as cases dealing with gay and transgender issues and campaigns. Read More

Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that ... Read More

Supreme Court lets Texas use congressional map favored by Trump

An ideologically divided court paused a lower court's ruling that the map likely discriminates against racial minorities by diluting the voting power of Hispanic and Black Texans. That ... Read More

Supreme Court confronts gun rights pileup

An unusually large pileup of Second Amendment challenges has landed at the Supreme Court, which will consider taking up the cases behind closed doors Friday. It would add to what is already ... Read More