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Six justices rewarded the Trump administration’s bad behavior—and they did not even tell the American people why.

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Our soldiers responded without hesitation, killing several enemy fighters and capturing a Taliban machine gunner. At that ...

A recent Supreme Court case marks the end of America’s three-decade experiment with extreme leniency.