Bonus: A Truth Bomb About ICE Deception

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Watson v. RNC this week, a dispute over state laws counting ballots mailed before but received after Election Day Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern are here to read some murky tea leaves about how this pivotal election case may be decided. Will Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett resist a ruling invalidating dozens of state laws and affecting hundreds of thousands of votes? They also examine major jury verdicts against Google and Meta for the ways their technology enables addiction and child exploitation this week, thanks to a legal theory that may have at least two votes in the bag at One, First Street. Finally, they cover the DOJ’s admission to a New York judge that it made material misstatements about an ICE immigration-courthouse arrest policy that apparently never existed, potentially reversing the case and prompting preservation orders and possible contempt consequences.

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