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Clarence Thomas
supreme court
July 10, 2024
AOC Is Trying to Impeach Justices Thomas and Alito Both the Supreme Court justices have been mired by ethics scandals in the past year.
early and often
June 21, 2024
Supreme Court Backs Off on Gun-Rights Absolutism In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court grudgingly accepted a federal law prohibiting firearm possession by domestic abusers.
early and often
June 12, 2024
Could North Dakota’s Congressional Age Limit Start a Trend? North Dakota voters approved a ban on congressional candidates over 80. It could put the issue back before the U.S. Supreme Court.
early and often
June 3, 2024
Trump Demands That Supreme Court Rescue Him From Conviction The 45th president’s imperial attitude toward his appointees is not a good look for the allegedly apolitical Court.
the national interest
May 20, 2024
Alito’s Flag Excuse Is a License for Partisan Grandstanding Explaining away the issue by blaming his wife creates a loophole so big you could drive a pro-Trump billboard through it.
supreme court
May 17, 2024
Alito Home’s Flag Is Symbol of New Partisan Era at Supreme Court It’s increasingly clear this is the Alito-Thomas Court, not the Roberts Court.
unaffordable housing
Feb. 20, 2024
New York Landlords Strike Out at the Supreme Court, Again Rent-stabilized tenants will continue to enjoy their automatic lease renewals.
supreme court
Aug. 31, 2023
Clarence Thomas Formally Acknowledges His Lavish Lifestyle The justice’s new financial-disclosure form cops to some of the fancy trips conservative donors have funded for him.
the national interest
Aug. 29, 2023
Even Clarence Thomas’s Law Clerks Can’t Defend His Misconduct A truly pathetic letter vouches for the disgraced justice while ignoring his scandals.
the national interest
Aug. 10, 2023
what we know
Aug. 10, 2023
A Quick Guide to Justice Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Scandals We’re keeping track of the recent pileup of revelations regarding secret financial arrangements between the justice and his rich friends.
the national interest
July 28, 2023
The Democrats Can’t Wave Away Their Hunter Biden Problem How the party can clean up the Supreme Court and address the president’s son’s ethics scandals.
Ginni and Clarence Thomas: A Love Story How a fiercely loyal couple saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.
the national interest
May 16, 2023
clarence thomas
May 7, 2023
What Conservatives Can’t Say About Clarence Thomas The best defense of the Supreme Court justice’s ethical lapses is that everyone already knows he’s just a conservative activist in a robe.
early and often
Apr. 25, 2023
It’s Neil Gorsuch’s Turn for a Financial Scandal With Clarence Thomas under scrutiny, a report states that Gorsuch sold a home to a major litigator whose firm is frequently before the Supreme Court.
it gets worse
Apr. 14, 2023
Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Clarence Thomas’s Mother’s House The Supreme Court justice didn’t report that he had been paid by Harlan Crow, almost certainly violating the law.
just asking questions
Apr. 11, 2023
What Can Democrats Do About Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Fiasco? Senator Sheldon Whitehouse thinks reform of what he calls the “captured court” starts with Chief Justice John Roberts.
Clarence Thomas: Sorry I Got Caught The justice says he’ll be better about disclosing his wildly inappropriate, GOP-donor-funded vacations going forward.
the national interest
Apr. 6, 2023
Clarence Thomas and the Ethical Disaster of the Supreme Court Undisclosed gifts from a billionaire won’t even embarrass the right.
Clarence Thomas Is Only a Part-Time Prince Fan As we learned during arguments in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith .
early and often
June 23, 2022
The Supreme Court Has Endangered the Future of Gun Control Background checks, age limits — anything that wasn’t around in the 1700s is probably unconstitutional, according to Clarence Thomas.
life after roe
May 14, 2022
Clarence Thomas Decries ‘Irreparable Damage’ of Roe Opinion Leak The Supreme Court’s loudest proponent of eliminating the right to an abortion is worried about institutional legitimacy and civility.
QAnon’s Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete It would be hilarious if it didn’t involve people in positions of real influence.
Ginni Thomas and the Conservative Rot at the Supreme Court Her deranged texts don’t just spur ethical and legal questions, but reflect much larger problems among the conservative majority.
Does the Supreme Court Deserve Ketanji Brown Jackson? The first Black female justice would lend the Court more credibility. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
capitol riot
Mar. 24, 2022
Yes, Ginni Thomas Was at the January 6 Rally … But She Left Early Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife says she attended the Stop the Steal rally but “got cold” and split before the rioting started.
If Sarah Palin Wins, Fox News Could Lose Why both liberals and conservatives should be careful about opening up libel law.
Democrats Are Playing Catch-up on Supreme Court Nominations Republicans have appointed the lion’s share of justices in recent decades. Biden needs to make the most of his rare opportunity.
u.s. supreme court
Oct. 5, 2021
Supreme Court Could Go Totally Extremist This Term In at least three areas – abortion, guns, and federal regulatory powers – the Court could take a big and consequential leap to the right.
the cut podcast
Sept. 29, 2021
Who Gets to Be Safe at HBCUs? On the Cut, navigating the struggles for survivors to be believed, and seeking advice from professor and attorney Anita Hill.
Anita Hill Wants More Than an Apology Thirty years after her groundbreaking testimony to Congress, Hill says gender violence is a public crisis.
u.s. supreme court
July 2, 2021
Supreme Court Won’t Expand Right to Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples It’s a setback for those hoping for an expanded zone of safety for religious-based objections to serving LGBTQ customers, but just for now.
transgender rights
June 28, 2021
Transgender Student Wins Bathroom-Access Case As Supreme Court Denies Appeal Seven of nine justices affirmed the decision by a lower court that transgender bathroom restrictions violated civil-rights laws and the Constitution.
supreme court
June 17, 2021
Supreme Court Keeps Its Powder Dry on Religious Liberty The ruling in favor of a Catholic foster-care agency was a setback for LGBTQ equality, but conservative justices could have gone much further.
u.s. supreme court
May 17, 2021
Is Roe v. Wade Now Doomed? We’ve been here before, when the Supreme Court surprised everyone in 1992 by upholding the right to choose. But this new challenge doesn’t look good.
Supreme Court Accepts Case That Could Overturn State Gun Laws A New York concealed-carry licensing regulation that requires demonstration of a distinctive need for self-defense outside the home could soon fall.
Why Is the Supreme Court Hesitating on Abortion? With a solidly conservative bloc on the bench, a decision on whether to hear a big case is all the more mysterious.
Can Biden and Democrats Protect Abortion Rights From Trump’s Judges? The worst was averted when Trump lost and Democrats won control of the Senate. But an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court could strike soon.
vision 2020
Dec. 11, 2020
Supreme Court Drop-Kicks Texas Lawsuit to Overturn the Election for Trump A legal effort to keep Trump in power attracted huge Republican support. But the president’s favorite justices wouldn’t even hear it.
Trump’s Only Credible Legal Strategy Won’t Be Enough It’s possible the Supreme Court will accept Republican efforts to disallow late mail ballots in Pennsylvania. But there aren’t enough votes to matter.
What Donald Trump Wants the Supreme Court to Do to Help Him Win Trump may ask the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to kill ballots postmarked by Election Day but received later.
supreme court
Oct. 29, 2020
How the Supreme Court Has Already Tinkered With the 2020 Election The Court has deferred to state decisions about mail-ballot deadlines and other election issues, with some conservatives clearly wanting to intervene.
supreme court
Oct. 27, 2020
Trump’s Justices Show How They Might Help Him in Contested Election Gorsuch defends Republican state legislatures’ power over election disputes. Kavanaugh echoes Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots. Be very afraid.
Amy Coney Barrett Sworn in As Supreme Court Justice A month after the apparent superspreader event at her nomination celebration, Barrett’s swearing-in locked in a 6-3 majority in the high court.
supreme court
Sept. 21, 2020
How a New Conservative Justice Could Affect the Supreme Court A conservative Court would move to the right even more than arithmetic suggests on key issues like abortion as Roberts abandons his balancing role.
supreme court
Aug. 6, 2020
Pence Goes After John Roberts As ‘Disappointment to Conservatives’ In an interview with a Christian right journalist, the VP promises that Trump will consummate a judicial counterrevolution in his second term.
supreme court
July 27, 2020
Trump’s Next Supreme Court List Could Be Really Extreme Conservatives are again feeling betrayed on abortion and LGBTQ rights. Trump needs to convince them his future picks would be infallibly reactionary.
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