Chris Geidner
MSNBC Columnist
Chris Geidner is a journalist and MSNBC columnist whose Law Dork newsletter covers the Supreme Court, law and politics. His more than two decades in journalism include widely recognized coverage of LGBTQ issues, the criminal legal system and other complex legal and political questions. Geidner also contributes to Grid and Bolts and previously worked as the Supreme Court correspondent and legal editor at BuzzFeed News, as well as for The Appeal and Metro Weekly.
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DeSantis’ vow not to extradite Trump isn’t meant to please the defendant. Just his voters.
The ever-expanding “major questions” doctrine has become conservative justices’ tool of choice for voiding Biden administration policies.
Reporters should cover the justices like any other part of government.
The Supreme Court has delivered a consistent chilling message over the past year: Facts and precedent don’t matter if they obstruct conservative justices’ ideological extremist ends.
Filling judicial vacancies must be a top priority for Biden’s next two years.
Supporters of race-conscious admissions policies should learn lessons from Democrats’ sluggish response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
As Tuesday’s oral arguments over Alabama’s new voting map showed, none of the other justices have begun their careers as impressively as Jackson.
The legal debacle unfolding in Florida makes Trump’s post-election clown-car operation look positively professional in comparison.
An attack on the state attorney is an attack on the voters who twice elected him to office.
Chad Meredith, an anti-abortion Republican, would be indistinguishable from some of the Trumpiest of Trump judges on the bench.
