Tag: SCOTUS

Republican state legislatures all over the country are aggressively trying to make voting harder. As the Brennan Center for Justice reports, currently 28 states have...

We've all been wondering if the Supreme Court would hear Trump's case that attempts to keep his tax returns out of the hands of...

The United States Supreme Court is beginning proceedings Monday on a case that could conceivably eliminate union membership in America. Last year, public sector unions...

In the wake of the most terrible mass shooting in American history, a small step forward for gun safety: on Tuesday the 9th Circuit...

This week SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, the case out of Wisconsin that may finally see the Court do a little legal...

Last week was the two year anniversary of the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, which legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. The...

People everywhere are face-palming as President Donald Trump wants to claim presidential immunity for groping a woman 10 years before he became president. As a practicing...

A number of Republicans, especially those aligned with the religious right, held their noses and voted for Donald Trump, despite his many outrages, for...

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump released a list of ten judges he believed should be approved for a variety of federal judicial positions. Now,...

It's official: another US District Court rejected President Donald Trump's reviled travel ban. The 4th Circuit judges focused on Trump's campaign remarks about Muslims...

The Supreme Court took the logic of the Trump administration to task this week, and they were horrified at the results. At issue was the topic...

During his appearance Sunday morning on Meet the Press, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell found out that when karma and hypocrisy converge, the result...

Sometimes the biggest news stories are barely reported. Sometimes everyone in the media gets so swept up in the juicy stuff that the more...

Donald Trump's standards for acceptable behavior from government officials is alarmingly low. After all, Sean Spicer still has a job despite planting a fake...

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is receiving an extensive promotional campaign run by the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. But the donors behind the campaign...

Between debunking wiretap claims and untangling President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, something else important is happening this week: the confirmation hearings of Judge...

Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic Senator from Connecticut who first disclosed Neil Gorsuch's misgivings about President Trump has a new message. He wants the judge...

On the surface, one of the best moments of the week came when Donald Trump's own nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, said he...

After blocking even so much as a hearing on former President Barack Obama's SCOTUS pick, Merrick Garland, Republicans are now in a tizzy over...

There are lots of hypocrites among the Republicans in Congress, but perhaps the crown for most hypocritical should be given to Senate Majority Leader...