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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December 2020, the Biden administration asked all 50 Democratic senators for potential judicial nominees who have worked as public defenders, civil rights lawyers, legal aid attorneys, and others ...

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

When the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, the five Republican justices in the majority had a sense of how dangerous their decision could be to their party’s electoral future. For ...

In 2023, the renowned Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein announced his retirement, explaining that when the Court is controlled by a six-justice conservative supermajority, there is “very little that ...

Last week, the Federalist Society’s annual convention gave a who’s who of the conservative legal movement the opportunity to toast their latest successes, like overturning landmark Supreme Court ...

Donald Trump attempted to downplay fears about his authoritarian impulses on the campaign trail by claiming that, if elected, he would “only” be a dictator on “day one.” There are nine weeks to go ...