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The first member of the Senate Democratic Caucus to back a Trump nominee does so for the most embarrassing reason imaginable.
Judges and justices are more powerful today than the framers ever intended. Congress can do something about it.
The Ninth Circuit has never had a public defender among the ranks of its judges. It's past time for President Biden to fix that.
On Monday, in an unsigned, one-paragraph order, the Supreme Court’s six conservatives allowed President Donald Trump to functionally dismantle the Department of Education. The Court’s shadow docket ...
The justices’ decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services is the culmination of a decades-long conservative push to hollow out federal civil rights laws.
Kamala Harris and Cory Booker each took moments to celebrate at the final Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation vote.
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
A former public defender's employment discrimination case highlights gaps in protections that the Judiciary Accountability Act would address.
Some of Project 2025’s most unhinged policy positions arise directly out of the Republican Supreme Court justices’ recent handiwork.
The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nomination hearing for, among others, Whitney Hermandorfer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
'Dinners With Ruth' is Nina Totenberg's reflections on decades of friendship with a Supreme Court justice she covered for a living.
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