Ian Millhiser
@imillhiser.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent, Vox. The Supreme Court is bad, y'all.
Republicans are normalizing the one reform they should fear most www.vox.com/politics/477...
Republicans can’t stop doing the one thing they should fear most
The Supreme Court is the GOP’s most durable power center. It makes no sense for them to endanger that source of power.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Republicans are normalizing the one reform they should fear most www.vox.com/politics/477...
The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander www.vox.com/politics/476...
The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander
The Republican justices already upheld Texas’s gerrymander, now we’ll find out if the same rules apply to blue states.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander www.vox.com/politics/476...
The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students www.vox.com/politics/476...
The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students
Plaintiffs from the religious right are asking the Republican justices to seize control of public schools.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:25 PM
The Supreme Court will decide whether to turn teachers into informants against their students www.vox.com/politics/476...
Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man? www.vox.com/policy/47637...
Can Minnesota prosecute the federal officers who just killed a man?
Trump’s paramilitary forces just shot and killed another person in Minneapolis.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Trump’s attempt to bully the Federal Reserve got an icy reception from the Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court is likely to hand Trump a rare loss on the Federal Reserve
Trump’s attempt to bully the Federal Reserve got an icy reception from the justices.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Trump’s attempt to bully the Federal Reserve got an icy reception from the Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive principles can both be true at the same time.
The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart
It’s obvious that the Court isn’t actually trying to come up with a legal rule that makes sense.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:23 PM
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out how two mutually exclusive principles can both be true at the same time.
The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart www.vox.com/politics/475...
The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart
It’s obvious that the Court isn’t actually trying to come up with a legal rule that makes sense.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The Supreme Court’s entire framework for Second Amendment cases is coming apart www.vox.com/politics/475...
The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights www.vox.com/politics/475...
The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights
Trans athletes always faced a difficult road in this Court.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights www.vox.com/politics/475...
The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible www.vox.com/politics/474...
The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible
Chief Justice Roberts owes Powell an apology.
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January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Supreme Court made Trump’s attack on Jerome Powell possible www.vox.com/politics/474...
Trump picked the worst possible time to go after Jerome Powell.
The Supreme Court was already set to hear a case about his war on the Fed next week.
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The Supreme Court was already set to hear a case about his war on the Fed next week.
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Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week
Trump picked the worst possible time to go after Jerome Powell.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Trump picked the worst possible time to go after Jerome Powell.
The Supreme Court was already set to hear a case about his war on the Fed next week.
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The Supreme Court was already set to hear a case about his war on the Fed next week.
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Can Minnesota prosecute the federal immigration officer who just killed a woman? www.vox.com/politics/474...
Can Minnesota prosecute the federal immigration officer who just killed a woman?
The short answer is that it is unclear.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Can Minnesota prosecute the federal immigration officer who just killed a woman? www.vox.com/politics/474...
Trump’s revenge campaign is now putting the entire Justice Department at risk www.vox.com/politics/474...
Trump’s revenge campaign is now putting the entire Justice Department at risk
One of Trump’s most high-profile DOJ appointments faces a rare disciplinary threat from the bench.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Trump’s revenge campaign is now putting the entire Justice Department at risk www.vox.com/politics/474...
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Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare.
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Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare
Oops.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare.
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Oops.
Republicans accidentally legalized abortion while trying to kill Obamacare
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Republicans accidentally legalized abortion while trying to kill Obamacare
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Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare
Oops.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Oops.
Republicans accidentally legalized abortion while trying to kill Obamacare
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Republicans accidentally legalized abortion while trying to kill Obamacare
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The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss www.vox.com/politics/473...
The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss
Even some of the Court’s Republicans ruled that his attempt to use troops against US citizens went too far.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss www.vox.com/politics/473...
The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court www.vox.com/politics/473...
The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court
The Court’s overall docket is shrinking, even as it hears more and more cases dealing with Republican cultural grievances.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court www.vox.com/politics/473...
The case against releasing the Epstein files www.vox.com/policy/46946...
The case against releasing the Epstein files
DOJ has strong norms against releasing information outside of a criminal trial, and for good reasons.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The Supreme Court sounds surprisingly open to a case against a death sentence www.vox.com/politics/471...
The Supreme Court sounds surprisingly open to a case against a death sentence
The justices seemed to reject Justice Neil Gorsuch’s earlier call for major changes to the rules governing punishment.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Supreme Court sounds surprisingly open to a case against a death sentence www.vox.com/politics/471...
How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself www.vox.com/politics/471...
How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself
The Court’s GOP majority wants grow Trump’s authority, but also give itself a veto power over the president.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself www.vox.com/politics/471...
The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable www.vox.com/politics/471...
The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable
The Court’s Texas decision is a victory for Republicans, and it is a terrible blow to all gerrymandering plaintiffs.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable www.vox.com/politics/471...
Republicans want the Supreme Court to save them from their own inept mistake www.vox.com/politics/470...
Republicans want the Supreme Court to save them from their own inept mistake
Meanwhile, Texas Republicans want to immunize their gerrymander from constitutional review.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Republicans want the Supreme Court to save them from their own inept mistake www.vox.com/politics/470...
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I was skeptical of this when Ian pitched it but came out convinced that it’s at least worth considering, especially the danger to victims and witnesses who spoke to DOJ about the horrors of their lives, and may now face of retribution from some of the most powerful people in the world.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I was skeptical of this when Ian pitched it but came out convinced that it’s at least worth considering, especially the danger to victims and witnesses who spoke to DOJ about the horrors of their lives, and may now face of retribution from some of the most powerful people in the world.
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"There is danger, however, in requiring the Justice Department to reveal the fruits of a criminal investigation — even in a case as compelling and as egregious as Epstein’s," writes @imillhiser.bsky.social.
Here's why 👇
Here's why 👇
The case against releasing the Epstein files
DOJ has strong norms against releasing information outside of a criminal trial, and for good reasons.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"There is danger, however, in requiring the Justice Department to reveal the fruits of a criminal investigation — even in a case as compelling and as egregious as Epstein’s," writes @imillhiser.bsky.social.
Here's why 👇
Here's why 👇
The case against releasing the Epstein files www.vox.com/policy/46946...
The case against releasing the Epstein files
DOJ has strong norms against releasing information outside of a criminal trial, and for good reasons.
www.vox.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The case against releasing the Epstein files www.vox.com/policy/46946...
Oops! Trump’s Justice Department may have accidentally handed Democrats five House seats
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Trump’s Justice Department may have accidentally handed Democrats five House seats
Oops.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Oops! Trump’s Justice Department may have accidentally handed Democrats five House seats
www.vox.com/politics/469...
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