Ruth Marcus

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12 June 2025 18:28

Who’s weaponizing now? Taking career prosecutors out of the equation and leaving it to Trump-installed US Attorneys is yet another dangerous move. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Ruth Marcus

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12 June 2025 18:28

My take on the surprising and at least somewhat cheering oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case. The skeptical reception some justices gave to SG John Sauer was, I think, evidence that the Trump administration's aggressiveness may be costing it in court. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ruth Marcus

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12 June 2025 18:28

Vance v. Roberts. My latest from New Yorker, about the vice president's wrongheaded claim that the federal courts are frustrating the will of the voters--and that the chief justice should intervene.

Ruth Marcus

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12 June 2025 18:28

Annals of a judiciary losing its patience--this from the judge overseeing the case of migrants deported to dangerous third countries: "Defendants have mischaracterized this Court’s order, while at the same time manufacturing the very chaos they decry." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ruth Marcus

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12 June 2025 18:28

The federal courts have been doing an impressive job of standing up to Trump. This includes SCOTUS, at times. But not always. See its latest gift to presidential power--conveniently ignoring a 90-year-old precedent. My latest for New Yorker www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...