A new cert petition asks the justices to further pare back what few limits remain on the influence of money in politics.

In May 2024, the New York Times revealed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had flags affiliated with far-right extremist movements flying outside of his residences. Alito’s conduct triggered ...

Last year, in both Tennessee and Montana, Republican lawmakers banned medical professionals from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youths. Both statutes arose out of a nationwide ...

Judicial nominee Adeel Mangi published a scathing letter to President Joe Biden on Monday denouncing the Senate’s process for confirming judges as “fundamentally broken” and criticizing the Senate ...

One of the main reasons President Donald Trump was able to pack the federal courts with so many reactionary right-wing judges during his first term is that—thanks to unprecedented obstruction from ...

The Republican Party has manufactured a nationwide surge of hostility against transgender people in recent years, betting on the inflamed bigotry of its base to propel it to victory at the ballot box.

It used to be that right-wing conspiracy theories about shadowy cabals importing migrants to take over the United States were confined to the darker corners of the internet, but apparently, part of ...

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, received a rare gift of mercy on Sunday, as the president issued “a full and unconditional pardon” for any federal offenses Hunter may have committed during the past ...

Back in 2023, the Supreme Court issued its first-ever code of conduct for the justices, at last tacitly acknowledging that the institution’s inability to impose consequences for its members’ various ...

Link to: Judges Who Refuse to Retire Under Trump Are Not “Playing Politics” ...