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August 20, 2024
Paige Oamek
Trump Takes Fascist Threat to Next Level With New Proposal on Judges
Donald Trump wants to make it a crime to criticize any judges who like him. Imagine what that would mean.
July 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Supreme Court Ruling That “Wreaks Havoc”
The Supreme Court justice ripped her conservative colleagues’ “flawed” decision to kneecap the federal government.
April 11, 2023
Alex Shephard
The Democrats (Still) Have a Dianne Feinstein Problem
The bad news is that the California senator is gumming up President Biden’s important work. The good news is that this is all very easily resolved!
January 31, 2023
Matt Ford
The Blue Slip Is the Hot New Senate Tradition That Democrats Should Abolish
Republicans did away with the arcane practice when it suited their purposes.
September 6, 2022
Matt Ford
It Turns Out There Are “Trump Judges” After All
Judge Aileen Cannon, whom Trump tapped for the federal bench in 2020, threw out the rules to boost his flimsy legal defense.
April 8, 2020
Matt Ford
The Amateurs and Yes-Men in Trump’s Army of Judges
There’s a simple formula for getting on the judicial bench in the MAGA era.
November 26, 2018
Jonathan Zimmerman
Who Is John Roberts Kidding?
Of course the court system is political! The first step toward changing that is acknowledging it.
August 13, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Jimmy Carter's Most Important Legacy: Female Judges
May 2, 1970
Henry Steele Commager
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