A guide to Trump’s extremist Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Trump nominated extremist Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in an attempt to make far-right ideology the law of the land.
By Oliver Willis - July 10, 2018Trump nominated extremist Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in an attempt to make far-right ideology the law of the land.
By Oliver Willis - July 10, 2018Brett Kavanaugh is anything but pro-woman — which might be one reason Trump couldn’t find any women lawmakers willing to write rave reviews of his Supreme Court nominee.
By Emily Crockett - July 10, 2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh didn’t waste any time going to bat for Trump with lies.
By Eric Boehlert - July 10, 2018Sen. Jeff Merkley called it ‘unacceptable’ for Trump to make Supreme Court appointments that would allow him to pardon himself.
By Caroline Orr - July 10, 2018Trump wants to put Brett Kavanaugh — a radical right-wing judge who believes a president should have unchecked power — on the Supreme Court.
By Caroline Orr - July 09, 2018Fox host Dana Perino got schooled by NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue.
By Tommy Christopher - July 08, 2018Sen. Richard Blumenthal warns that Trump’s list of Supreme Court nominees is made up of ‘right-wing fringe ideologues.’
By Tommy Christopher - July 08, 2018Trump is handling the selection of a Supreme Court justice as if he were casting a reality show.
By Tommy Christopher - July 05, 2018‘We could be participating in a process that could undermine that criminal investigation.’
By Tommy Christopher - June 28, 2018Trump’s next Supreme Court pick could be asked to issue rulings that will determine the course of the Russia investigation.
By Caroline Orr - June 27, 2018From health care to marriage rights, here is how the Supreme Court could change America if Trump has his way.
By Emily Crockett - June 27, 2018Republicans are desperate to rig the Supreme Court before the election, and they’re not being shy about admitting it.
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 27, 2018The Republican leader of the Senate invented the McConnell Rule to steal a Supreme Court seat, and now he plans to break it to seize another.
By Tommy Christopher - June 27, 2018Trump is already scheming to ram through yet another Supreme Court nominee for a seat he has no business filling in the first place.
By Oliver Willis - June 27, 2018After the conservative majority on the Supreme Court gave Trump a green light to enact his bigoted Muslim ban, Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted his hate and the judges who supported it.
By Oliver Willis - June 26, 2018After helping to steal a Supreme Court seat during President Obama’s last year in office, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is now trying to engineer retirements.
By Eric Boehlert - May 10, 2018Chief Justice John Roberts was seen rubbing elbows with the architects of Trump’s ‘travel ban’ just hours before the Supreme Court was set to hear arguments about the ban’s legality.
By Caroline Orr - April 25, 2018Anti-choice advocates think they’ve found the perfect Supreme Court case to help them push their dangerous and incorrect views about abortion. But they could be wildly wrong.
By Lisa Needham - March 20, 2018This is a shocking and dangerous assault on the judiciary.
By Kaili Joy Gray - February 05, 2018A major defeat for Pennsylvania Republicans just increased Democrats chances of retaking the House.
By Eric Boehlert - February 05, 2018Why is one of the nations highest nonpartisan judicial officers huddling for a strategy session with Republican senators?
By Matthew Chapman - January 23, 2018Gerrymandering was just dealt a fatal blow in Pennsylvania in time for crucial midterm elections.
By Matthew Chapman - January 22, 2018Installing Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court is one of Donald Trump’s few political victories, and now he is angrily lashing out at reporting that has exposed his childish tantrums during the nomination process. The Washington Post reports that Trump considered pulling back Gorsuch’s nomination after the then-nominee criticized him for attacking the judiciary. After a […]
By Oliver Willis - December 19, 2017One of Donald Trump’s only clear wins as president was getting far-right extremist Neil Gorsuch onto the Supreme Court after Republicans stole the appointment from President Barack Obama and his brilliantly qualified nominee, Merrick Garland. Trump has also placed many other fringe radicals into the lower courts, despite Democrats managing to block a couple. And […]
By Matthew Chapman - October 16, 2017While Donald Trump is either hiding out in his bedroom or humiliating himself on the global stage, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is keeping his eye on the ball: fighting to ban Muslims. On Friday, Sessions went running to the Supreme Court — claiming to do so “reluctantly” — to enforce the Trump administration’s new […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - July 14, 2017Donald Trump is determined to follow through on his campaign threat to keep Muslims, including refugees, out of America. Several courts have shot down his executive orders banning travel from predominantly Muslim countries, citing Trump’s own words and tweets as evidence of his inherently bigoted intention. When the Supreme Court partially lifted the stay on […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - July 06, 2017The Republican Party’s unprecedented theft of a Supreme Court seat is reason enough for Senate Democrats to oppose Donald Trump’s illegitimate nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch. But the White House’s refusal to make Gorsuch available to even meet with some Democratic senators to answer their questions leaves them no choice but to vote no. According to Huffington Post, […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - March 31, 2017A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on whether to lift the injunction on the second iteration of Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, and it did not go well for Team Trump. Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall tried to shift the proceeding away from the ban’s discriminatory intent, but the judges’ questions […]
By Tommy Christopher - May 16, 2017Republicans suffered a major blow as the Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal to its earlier decision gutting North Carolina’s racially discriminatory voter ID law. The previous governor, Republican Pat McCrory, and the Republican-led legislature had pushed for the appeal of the July 2016 decision that invalidated the law they had passed together. The […]
By Oliver Willis - May 15, 2017Merrick Garland is one of the most respected jurists in the United States. He is the chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and served as associate deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton, where he prosecuted Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. He is a centrist who has won […]
By Matthew Chapman - May 15, 2017