Experts weigh in on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, unanimous decisions, birthright citizenship, retirements and more.

Jeffrey Toobin in NYT on President Trump’s assertion that former President Obama engaged in “treason” in connection with the investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election: President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind

Sen. Ted Cruz has admitted that Barack Obama is not going to be charged with treason, despite the Trump administration’s attempts to smear the former president to deflect from the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

In Iowa, Rep. Zach Nunn had been weighing a run for governor until his own conversation with Trump, after which he opted to seek reelection to a seat that national Republicans feel would have been more competitive without an incumbent on the ballot. Trump offered a full-throated endorsement of Nunn’s reelection after he said he spoke with him.

The ideological divide was clear in cases in which the justices acted on an emergency basis, sometimes called the "shadow docket."

On the merits, this defamation case should be winnable for the newspaper. But the chilling effect is real and dangerous.

Mass layoff came days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for US president to gut entire government positions.

The Trump Administration is asking the Supreme Court in an “emergency application” to allow the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cut millions of grants related to diversity initiatives, the New York Times reports.