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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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Photo illustration: Part of a photo of a pride flag waving over the Supreme Court seen through a web browser window is black and white.

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

Image: Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson outside of the Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 30, 2022.

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

Photo illustration: Yellow and red strips of text overlap each other and a cut out of Donald Trump. The text reads,"Trump v. United States", "Southern District of Florida (West Palm Beach) and "U.S. District Court".

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

Photo diptych: Ron DeSantis and Andrew Warren

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

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