Justice Clarence Thomas Is Having an Outsize Influence on the Trump Administration
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas smiles during an event at the Library of Congress, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is by far the court’s quietest and most conservative justice. He went 10 years without asking a…
How Brett Kavanaugh Could Cripple the Next Democratic President
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh walks up the Capitol steps with Vice President Mike Pence. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February 2017, Brett Kavanaugh traveled to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. It was four days after President Donald Trump had…
Brett Kavanaugh Once Said the Watergate Tapes Decision Was “Wrongly Decided”
Supreme Court nominee Brett KavanaughJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once suggested that the Supreme Court decision that forced President Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes may have been “wrongly decided.” Kavanaugh was taking part in a 1999 roundtable with other lawyers, according…
Judicial Watchdogs Are in Court to Make Brett Kavanaugh’s Entire Record Public
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.Cliff Owen/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A month before President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in January 2017, the nonprofit court watchdog group Fix the Court had already filed a Freedom of Information Act with the US Department of Justice.…
One of Trump’s Potential SCOTUS Nominees Sent a Tweet He Probably Really Regrets
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Only one person on President Trump’s short list to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is on record with his support for a “constitutional right to marry bacon.” I could support recognizing a constitutional right to marry bacon.…
Kennedy Was a “Mixed Bag” for Environmentalists. But What’s Next Could Be Much Worse.
AP Photo/Denis Poroy Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Anthony Kennedy is retiring, and progressives around the country are trying not to freak out. The 81-year-old justice, who has served on the Supreme Court since 1988, has been…