House Democrats sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts demanding that he answer questions about whether the Supreme Court will enforce their ethics rules on Alito.
The wife of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have come back at Chief Justice John Roberts and are demanding that he answer questions about SCOTUS ethics.
In a letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee told Roberts to open an immediate investigation into Clarence Thomas or they will take action.
New reporting reveals that Chief Justice John Roberts was working on a compromise to save abortion rights, but the leaked Roe draft opinion stonewalled his efforts.
They aren’t dumping Trumpism, just Trump. Indeed, what some pundits have termed Trumpism is really just what mainstream Republican politics have been for decades.
All of these issues—women’s right to choose, gun control, the rights of people to love how they want and marry whom they want, and much more—depend on one issue: democracy.
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts told a group of lawyers and judges that he is appalled by the draft opinion leak, but he has expressed nothing about the possibility of overturning Roe.
Chief Justice Roberts said that there will be an investigation of the SCOTUS leaker, but he has done nothing about Clarence and Ginni Thomas.
The past week has telescoped America’s history of racism and genocide in the intensest of ways, highlighting too that it’s the highest governing offices in the land that are promulgating the most virulent racism and leading the genocidal charge.
For Republicans, freedom means they also get to impose their belief systems, their version of “law and order” on everybody else.
Sinema and the Supreme Court, empowered and enabled by the filibuster, have through the supposedly “democratic processes” Congress invented, extra-constitutionally, invited extremism into mainstream American politics.
Fox News has always been quite loose with the truth. This weekend, though, they told a number of outright lies about the things that are in Joe Biden‘s infrastructure plan. The anchors from the network repeatedly told viewers that the president wanted to limit Americans to one serving of ground beef a month. The story…
John Roberts somehow believed it was his role to usurp Congress’s authority and make this call. He decided, based on what training and sociological research we don’t know, that racism simply wasn’t a problem in America anymore.
There are people on Fox News that are seen as hyper-partisan. Among them, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro, Laura Ingraham. Then there are the more straight news reporters like Chris Wallace, Martha McCallum and Bret Baier. For most of his career, John Roberts has been seen as one of those more straight news, down…
While there were many candidates to become Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris was long seen as a front-runner. The Trump campaign had plenty of time to come up with a well-thought out statement about the pick. Believe it or not, that’s not what happened. Following the announcement of the selection, the campaign released a…
Mike Pence has offered rare public criticism of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Vice President said John Roberts has been disappointing for conservatives. Pence spoke to the Christian Broadcast Network about recent Supreme Court cases on issues like abortion, the Affordable Care Act and Transgender rights. “Look, we have great respect for…
Chief Justice John Roberts has rebuked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for “threatening statements” against two conservative justices. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said, adding that the justices “will continue to…
Chief Justice John Roberts received more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints in recent weeks against Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice Saturday, but did nothing about them. According to the Washington Post, he “has chosen for the time being not to refer them to a judicial panel for investigation.”…
It is very seldom, if ever, that any Republican purposely admits in public that their raison d’etre is solely to serve the interests of corporations and the very richest Americans, and it is doubtful they expected the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to expose their badly-kept secret, but he did; albeit inadvertently.
Jeb Bush said, “If someone wants to run a campaign about 90s nostalgia, it’s not going to be very successful.”
When whites decide racism is over … that’s “whitewishing”
Recent appalling decisions by Bush-appointed judges show the importance of getting some Obama-appointed judges on the bench. If only he could
Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia have again set themselves above ethics rules because they are, after all, Koch brother properties.
President Barack Obama and a number of other speakers and entertainers brightened up an inauguration that struck just the right tone.
Many state legislatures will be asked by corporate interests to nullify the recent Supreme Court health care decision, and ALEC written model legislation is at the ready.
So what did happen with Roberts anyway? Was his a vote cast to mitigate the public impression that the SCOTUS is too politically partisan to continue assessing objective questions of law and liberty?