Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Calling for Brett Kavanaugh’s Impeachment
Chip Somodevill/Getty On two separate occasions, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to classmates at Yale University in the 1980s, according to new reporting from New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly. The two published details of the incidents, one of which involved Deborah Ramirez, whose allegations were not fully investigated during…
RBG Says She’ll Be Back in Full Force by the Start of the Supreme Court Term
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Library of Congress National Book Festival on Saturday.Cliff Owen, AP Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health has been on a lot of people’s minds lately. Having just completed a three-week radiation treatment for a cancerous tumor, the 86-year-old justice made her first public appearance promoting…
The Courts Won’t End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them.
On a frigid March morning, Eric Holder strode into a brick union hall on the west side of Milwaukee, across from a credit union and an auto body shop. The Merrill Park neighborhood was once the center of the city’s Irish political machine, filled with stately Victorian houses—including the childhood home of Spencer Tracy—but it…
The Supreme Court Just Stuck up for Abortion Rights in Alabama
Patrick Semansky/AP Photo The US Supreme Court has decided not to review an Alabama law from 2016 that would have banned the most common method of second-trimester abortion. By not taking up the case, a ruling from a lower court blocking the law will stand, a big victory for abortion providers in Alabama. Alabama proposed criminalizing…
The Supreme Court Made a Death Penalty Decision in the Dead of the Night and Justice Breyer Is Pissed
Associate Justice Stephen BreyerJ. Scott Applewhite/AP At approximately 3:00 a.m. Friday morning, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that allows the execution of an Alabama death row inmate to move forward, after a lower court had issued a stay of execution. The order itself was only a paragraph, but Justice Stephen Breyer responded with…
Jurors Thought a Gay Man Would Enjoy Prison. So They Sentenced Him to Death.
imaginima/Getty When Charles Rhines, a gay man, was convicted of the murder of Donnivan Schaeffer in January 1993, the jurors at his trial in South Dakota were tasked with deciding whether he would serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, or to sentence him to death. During deliberations, some jurors wondered if life…