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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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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’ problematic ploy to win MAGA votes after Trump’s indictment

After Trump's indictment, Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted that Florida would not help with any extradition of Trump, should it be necessary.

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625d ago

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The Supreme Court’s conservatives have a flexible new ‘doctrine’

The ever-expanding "major questions" doctrine has become conservative justices' tool of choice for voiding Biden administration policies.

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643d ago

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The Supreme Court thinks it’s special. It’s not.

Reporters should cover the justices like any other part of government.

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709d ago

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The incredibly unsubtle Amy Coney Barrett response that should worry LGBTQ Americans

In 303 Creative v. Elenis, LGBTQ rights seem under threat from conservative Supreme Court judges like Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Anthony Alito.

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731d ago

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Democrats need to pick up the pace on appointing judges

With Senate control maintained, Biden and the Democrats should move quickly to fill the over 100 vacancies in the federal judiciary.

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746d ago

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Chief Justice John Roberts is about to get what he always wanted. That's a problem.

Supporters of race-conscious admissions policies should learn lessons from Democrats' sluggish response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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772d ago

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Ketanji Brown Jackson takes the Supreme Court's conservative majority to school

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.

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812d ago

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Trump's Mar-a-Lago lawyers have some real explaining to do

The legal debacle unfolding in Florida makes Trump's post-election clown-car operation look positively professional in comparison.

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819d ago

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Ron DeSantis suspends a prosecutor for having different opinions than Ron DeSantis

An attack on the state attorney is an attack on the voters who twice elected him to office.

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858d ago

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One potential nomination is threatening to ruin Biden's record of picking good judges

Chad Meredith, an anti-abortion Republican, would be indistinguishable from some of the Trumpiest of Trump judges on the bench.

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1024d ago

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Justice Stephen Breyer remaining on the Supreme Court is a gamble

It's the same play that Ruth Bader Ginsburg made — but he's sure it'll turn out different.
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If you felt enraged by Biden and Trump’s fireside chat, you’re not alone

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This photo of Kamala Harris shows us exactly how to survive Trump's second term

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Trump's odd, disconcerting pick of Tulsi Gabbard for DNI, explained

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Max Rose: Tulsi Gabbard is a friend. Her rise in the MAGA world disappoints me.
A running list of all the people Trump has picked to serve in his administration
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump.
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Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as health secretary

Clarissa-Jan Lim
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Tuberville threatens GOP senators who 'get in the way' of confirming Gaetz

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Elizabeth Warren smells something fishy going on with Trump’s transition team

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Satirical news site The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction as ‘a very funny joke’

Clarissa-Jan Lim
A split composite of Chuck Rosenberg and Matt Gaetz.

An attorney general needs 3 qualities to be successful. Matt Gaetz doesn't even have one.

Chuck Rosenberg
Lee Zeldin

Trump’s EPA pick won’t just create problems for you — he’ll create problems for your kids

Roishetta Sibley Ozane

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Why Trump's Marco Rubio Cabinet pick stands out

Susan Del Percio

Trump’s win isn’t only helping his own criminal cases. It’s helping other Jan. 6 defendants, too.

Jordan Rubin
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Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers don’t want to defend him anymore in Georgia election worker case

Jordan Rubin

House Republicans' narrow win may come back to haunt them

Brendan Buck
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Fox News’ unprecedented influence over Trump is in jeopardy

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Trump’s education plan sounds a lot like reparations for white people

Ja'han Jones

Juan Merchan. in his chambers in New York
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What Judge Merchan agreeing to more delay in Trump’s hush money case means

Fani Willis seated during a hearing in Atlanta

A Trump trial in Georgia after he leaves office? That’s less of a delay than it seems.

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Judge grants Jack Smith's request to pause Trump's federal election interference case

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Jim Jordan advances investigation into Jack Smith’s investigation

Andrew Weissmann on second-term Trump DOJ: ‘You won’t have the people who will simply refuse’

Trump may want to think twice about cashing in his political capital to close the DOE

Senate GOP likely to abandon key constitutional power and bend the knee to Trump

Dems may finally get their overdue political reckoning

Trump has a destructive plan for America. But we have the tools to stop it.

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I don’t want anyone to experience the kind of teen pregnancy I had. That’s why I became a doula.

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Sen. Eva Burch, D-Phoenix, talks about her decision to have an abortion during an interview at her Capitol office.
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I’m an elected official who had an abortion. I’ve witnessed how much the GOP distrusts women.

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What life is like when it's too dangerous to get prenatal care in your home state

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Kaitlyn Kash crossed state lines and skipped anesthesia to get the abortion she needed

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I've spent years working as an OB-GYN in Tennessee. These abortion stories still stick with me.

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American women need to spread this message: Abortions are normal

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even more fear

What I tell my Palestinian son now that Trump is returning to the White House

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Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Holds Election Night Event In West Palm Beach

break the system

What this MAGA pundit's 'middle finger' rallying cry suggests about some Trump voters

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SEA OF RED

How the Democratic party lost the state of Florida

Fla. state Sen. Shevrin Jones
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CURSED REWARD

Susie Wiles is getting what she deserves

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'us versus them'

Why Trump's threats of mass deportation appealed to some Latino voters

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The harsh truth for Democrats after Trump’s victory

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resentment, sold

The false narrative at the heart of Trump's victory over Harris

Michael A. Cohen
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who's the sucker

We're about to witness the grim punch line to Trump's candidacy

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generous gift

Trump is about to take credit for Biden's accomplishments

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hunt for a scapegoat

Democrats would get nothing for throwing trans Americans under the bus

Hayes Brown

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