Mark Joseph Stern
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Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Mark:
A Trump Judge’s Tantrum at Stanford Law Was Part of a Bigger Plan
In past opinions and public appearances, Duncan has not exhibited these qualities. → Read More
Tucker Carlson Lost. The Jan. 6 Committee Won.
The Jan. 6 committee did what all good prosecutors do. → Read More
Why the Victims of Texas’ Most Lethal Abortion Bans Are Finally Going to Court
Doctors and patients desperately need help navigating Texas’ new abortion regime. → Read More
Why Biden Stabbed D.C. in the Back
D.C.’s 700,000 residents have no senator to lobby against the bill. We can only plead, like subjects of a colony. → Read More
Why Ketanji Brown Jackson Split With the Court’s Liberals in a 5–4 Decision
The unusual decision united Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson. → Read More
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Tried Very Hard Today to Find a Good Reason to Screw Biden
But they couldn’t find any good reason. → Read More
One of the Trumpiest Judges in America Thinks Far-Right Texas Officials Are Going Too Far
Trump Judge James Ho fights lonely battle against censorship in Texas. → Read More
The Right-Wing Assault on the Internet Fizzled Completely at the Supreme Court
Gonzalez will not be the case to challenge the consensus understanding of Section 230. → Read More
Republican Leaders Might Not Be Trying to Kill Social Security and Medicare. But Their Judges Are.
Far-right judges are crafting a theory that would empower courts to strike down trillions of dollars in federal spending. → Read More
Why a Federal Judge Is Asking if Abortion Is Still Maybe Constitutional
Was this an audacious judicial request? Maybe. → Read More
The Worst Judge in America Could Outlaw the Abortion Pill Nationwide. It Gets Worse.
Dobbs was only the beginning. → Read More
Brett Kavanaugh May Have Quietly Sabotaged Clarence Thomas’ Extreme Gun Ruling
Don’t assume the Supreme Court will uphold recent decisions vastly expanding the Second Amendment. → Read More
Biden’s Justice Department Finally Stands Up to Out-of-Control Texas Judges
Trump appointees keep playing along with Texas’ brazen judge-shopping. The Biden administration finally said: enough. → Read More
SCOTUS’s First Decision of the Term Is a Unanimous Blow to Disabled Veterans
Why did the liberals co-sign Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s harsh opinion? → Read More
The Pundits Are Wrong About D.C.’s Crime Bill
A cynical freakout stretching from Fox News to the Washington Post is utterly bogus. → Read More
The Justices Don’t Want to Know Who Leaked Dobbs
Unpacking what was revealed—and the big thing that wasn’t—in the Supreme Court’s new report on the leak. → Read More
The Criminal Code Still Puts a Bull’s-Eye on Medication Abortion–Seekers’ Backs
A look at the state of abortion access more than six months after the Supreme Court did away with the right to abortion. → Read More
SCOTUS Unanimously Sides With Death Row Inmate Over an Extreme Texas Court
Even this conservative supermajority understood that a forensic lab’s egregious misconduct demands a new trial. → Read More
South Carolina’s Supreme Court Becomes the First to Establish a Right to Abortion Post-Roe
It won’t be the last. → Read More
The Supreme Court May Kick Off 2023 With a Huge Gun Rights Ruling
Without oral argument, the case could take a hatchet to New York's new concealed carry law—and countless others. → Read More