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Clarence Thomas
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.
By Matt Stieb
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.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 10, 2023
By Jonathan Chait
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.
By Chas Danner
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.
By Jonathan Chait
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.
By Kerry Howley
the national interest
May 16, 2023
By Jonathan Chait
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.
By Eric Levitz
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.
By Matt Stieb
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.
By Matt Stieb
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.
By Benjamin Hart
Clarence Thomas: Sorry I Got Caught The justice says he’ll be better about disclosing his wildly inappropriate, GOP-donor-funded vacations going forward.
By Benjamin Hart
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.
By Jonathan Chait
Clarence Thomas Is Only a Part-Time Prince Fan As we learned during arguments in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith .
By Justin Curto
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.
By Jay Michaelson
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.
By Chas Danner
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.
By Jacob Silverman
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.
By Ankush Khardori
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.
By Irin Carmon
capitol riot
Mar. 24, 2022
By Matt Stieb
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.
By Margaret Hartmann
If Sarah Palin Wins, Fox News Could Lose Why both liberals and conservatives should be careful about opening up libel law.
By Andrew Rice
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By the Cut
Anita Hill Wants More Than an Apology Thirty years after her groundbreaking testimony to Congress, Hill says gender violence is a public crisis.
By Rebecca Traister
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Matt Stieb
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
July 17, 2020
RBG Health Scare a Reminder of Republican Plans to Ram Through Nominee This Year Flipping a liberal Supreme Court seat could happen as late as a post-election lame-duck session of the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
July 13, 2020
Can Trump Make the Supreme Court a Campaign Issue Again? Trump-appointed justices didn’t give conservatives everything they hoped for. That only raises the stakes in November.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
July 8, 2020
Supreme Court Allows Trump Restrictions on Obamacare Contraception Coverage Up to 126,000 women could lose no-cost contraception coverage. The Court also expanded the “ministerial exception” to employee protections.
By Ed Kilgore
Supreme Court Lets States Punish ‘Faithless Electors’ A unanimous Supreme Court found no constitutional sanction for treating presidential electors as free agents.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
July 1, 2020
Trump Wants Another Supreme Court Nomination Fight Before November Trump thinks a confirmation battle could excite his base, but it would work both ways, particularly among Democrats who remember Merrick Garland.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 30, 2020
Roberts Rejoins Supreme Court Conservatives to Boost Religious Schools It was a relatively narrow decision but it showed where a future Supreme Court committed to expanding religious privileges might go.
By Ed Kilgore
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