Trump ‘asked the lawyers’ if he can ignore the Constitution to make the census racist
Trump said he asked his lawyers whether he can delay the census long enough to add the racist ‘citizenship question.’
By Emily Singer - June 27, 2019Trump said he asked his lawyers whether he can delay the census long enough to add the racist ‘citizenship question.’
By Emily Singer - June 27, 2019The Supreme Court stopped the Trump administration’s attempt to rig the 2020 census.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 27, 2019The five conservative justices ruled that federal courts cannot strike down congressional districts for being extremely partisan.
By Emily Singer - June 27, 2019Republicans were dealt a blow when the Supreme Court dismissed their challenge against fairly drawn state legislative districts.
By Emily Singer - June 17, 2019New documents reveal the Trump administration based its census citizenship question on advice from a GOP strategist who concocted it to disadvantage Democrats.
By Emily Singer - May 30, 2019Tucked deep in a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas is asking for someone to bring him a case about reproductive rights so that he can get rid of them.
By Lisa Needham - May 29, 2019Mitch McConnell famously blocked President Obama’s Supreme Court pick from even having a hearing because it was an election year. Now that Trump’s in office, he says he’d do the exact opposite.
By Lisa Needham - May 29, 2019Alabama’s House of Representatives just passed the most draconian anti-choice bill in the nation.
By Lisa Needham - May 03, 2019The conservatives on the Supreme Court looked likely to uphold the citizenship question on the Census, which could undercount the population by 6.5 million and take power away from Democratic areas.
By Emily Singer - April 23, 2019The Kavanaugh confirmation left lingering scars, including that GOP men became far less likely to believe women who allege sexual harassment or assault.
By Lisa Needham - April 19, 2019Mitch McConnell has some nerve.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 01, 2019Neomi Rao was confirmed to the D.C. Court of Appeals with a party-line vote.
By Emily Singer - March 13, 2019The very day Trump declared his unnecessary national emergency, two public interest groups filed lawsuits. More are on the way.
By Lisa Needham - February 18, 2019The Supreme Court just handed down one of the most nakedly bigoted decisions imaginable.
By Lisa Needham - February 08, 2019Collins already sold her soul, and gave Trump the biggest win of his presidency, by voting to install alleged sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2019Congress may investigate Trump’s tainted Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, for lying under oath.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 22, 2019California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye had been thinking of leaving the Republican Party for a long time, but the GOP’s embrace of alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh sealed the deal.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 14, 2018Newt Gingrich just admitted what we knew all along: Republicans are counting on Kavanaugh to protect Trump from investigations.
By Caroline Orr - October 26, 2018The party infamous for encouraging political violence is now calling its opponents ‘toxic’ and ‘fringe.’
By Eric Boehlert - October 12, 2018Trump has learned nothing from the national response to Kavanaugh.
By Eric Boehlert - October 11, 2018Rep. Kevin Cramer implied that sexual assault survivors are weak.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 08, 2018Nearly two years after electing an admitted sexual predator, Republicans voted nearly unanimously to confirm an accused sexual predator to the Supreme Court.
By Caroline Orr - October 06, 2018Susan Collins ignored Americans — and the residents of Maine — to support Brett Kavanaugh, despite his record of hostility against women and their rights.
By Oliver Willis - October 05, 2018Major newspapers across the country are denouncing Kavanaugh’s lack of honesty and judicial temperament.
By Eric Boehlert - October 05, 2018The admitted sexual predator in chief is smearing assault survivors now.
By Oliver Willis - October 05, 2018Kavanaugh’s behavior in front of the Senate was atrocious. His excuse for it is even worse.
By Kaili Joy Gray - October 05, 2018Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a lifelong Republican, says Brett Kavanaugh proved he does not belong on the highest court in the land.
By Oliver Willis - October 04, 2018‘It is heartbreaking if these guys who acted like my friends in high school were saying these nasty, false things about me behind my back.’
By Emily Crockett - October 04, 2018The farce of a background check is being spun by Republicans as conclusive.
By Eric Boehlert - October 04, 2018A coalition of more than 100,000 U.S. churches says Kavanaugh has ‘disqualified himself’ from a position on the Supreme Court.
By Caroline Orr - October 04, 2018