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Brett Kavanaugh
abortion
Jan. 22, 2021
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
supreme court
Nov. 10, 2020
Roberts and Kavanaugh Signal They May Save Obamacare
Two members of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc indicate even if part of Obamacare is declared unconstitutional, the bulk of it will survive.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 9, 2020
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
vision 2020
Nov. 4, 2020
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
Republicans Are Daring Democrats to Expand the Supreme Court
In recent days, the GOP has done more to radicalize moderate Democrats on judicial issues than progressives ever could.
By
Eric Levitz
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
the law
Oct. 22, 2020
Burn It All Down
A growing number of liberal lawyers want more than court-packing.
By
Irin Carmon
vision 2020
Oct. 20, 2020
GOP Hopes That Amy Coney Barrett Would Fire Up the Base Fizzled
It’s unclear that killing Garland’s confirmation or forcing Kavanaugh’s did electoral magic for the GOP. The non-fight over Barrett sure won’t.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Oct. 19, 2020
Supreme Court Stops GOP Effort to Reject Tons of Ballots in Pennsylvania
The 4-4 decision was a setback for Republicans, but it might have gone differently if Amy Coney Barrett were already confirmed.
By
Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Oct. 14, 2020
Why the Barrett Hearings Are Generating Less Outrage Than Kavanaugh’s
Unlike Trump’s last Supreme Court pick, Barrett is not embroiled in scandal — but that’s not the only reason the temperature is lower this time.
By
Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Sept. 28, 2020
Palin Threatens Challenge to Murkowski in Deeply Strange Video
It’s unclear if Palin is at all serious or just bidding for attention again.
By
Ed Kilgore
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
the law
Aug. 26, 2020
Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld Suspended for Sexual Harassment
The university found he had harassed students over decades. Rubenfeld says, “I became a target of people making false allegations.”
By
Irin Carmon
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
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 29, 2020
Supreme Court Rejects Louisiana Abortion Restrictions
In the end, Chief Justice Roberts couldn’t go along with a quick reversal of a recent precedent.
By
Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 18, 2020
Supreme Court Thwarts Trump’s Effort to Kill DACA
The Court rebuked Trump for the second time this week, blocking him from ending the program that protects Dreamers from deportation, for now.
By
Ed Kilgore
lgbtq rights
June 15, 2020
Supreme Court: LGBTQ Workers Protected by Anti-Discrimination Laws
The 6-3 decision is a big win for equality, and a big loss for the Trump administration and the Christian right.
By
Ed Kilgore
federal judiciary
May 29, 2020
Lindsey Graham Asks Older Judges to Retire So Trump Can Replace Them
One way to maximize the value of lifetime judicial appointments is to get younger judges, before voters can put Democrats in charge.
By
Ed Kilgore
the law
May 10, 2020
Will Kavanaugh Give Trump the Power to Fire Anyone He Pleases?
President Trump claims he has an “absolute right” to dismiss federal officials. An imminent Supreme Court ruling could make that true.
By
Cristian Farias
supreme court
May 8, 2020
Republicans Ready to Rock and Roll With a Preelection SCOTUS Confirmation
Neither charges of hypocrisy, nor peril to his own vulnerable senators, will keep McConnell from adding a conservative to SCOTUS. It’s the ball game.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
May 6, 2020
Unlike Democrats, Republicans Have Politically Weaponized Judicial Appointments
Of course Mitch McConnell reconvened the Senate in a pandemic to confirm child-judge Justin Walker. The judiciary is his and Trump’s top priority.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
May 4, 2020
Why Kavanaugh Is the Focus of Republican Attacks on Biden
The GOP would prefer to compare Biden to Kavanaugh, a party-unifying figure, rather than Trump himself, accused of far more misconduct.
By
Ed Kilgore
abortion
Apr. 23, 2020
Kavanaugh Sends a Strong Signal on How He’ll Approach Abortion Rights
In a decision on an entirely different subject, Kavanaugh laid out a test for overturning Supreme Court precedents — like the right to an abortion.
By
Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Dec. 18, 2019
Collins Officially Running in 2020, in Race That Could Decide Senate Control
She angered a lot of constituents with her pivotal support for Brett Kavanaugh, and will have a strong opponent.
By
Ed Kilgore
the body politic
Oct. 24, 2019
Why Donald Trump — and Other Powerful Men — Love to Cast Themselves As Victims
What his “lynching” comment reveals.
By
Rebecca Traister
the law
Oct. 9, 2019
At Supreme Court Hearing on Gay Rights, Liberals Take a Page From Scalia
Sure, the relevant law was written in 1964 — but what do the words
say
?
By
Cristian Farias
abortion
Oct. 4, 2019
Here We Go: Supreme Court Accepts First Big Post-Kavanaugh Abortion Case
The Court could begin the long march back to a pre–
Roe v. Wade
era by validating laws designed to shut down abortion providers.
By
Ed Kilgore
brett kavanaugh
Sept. 30, 2019
What Brett Kavanaugh Means to Conservatives
A new book about Kavanaugh illustrates the way the story has become a weapon with which to bludgeon the press.
By
Sarah Jones
judiciary
Sept. 17, 2019
Should Democrats Plan on Packing the Courts in 2021?
Certainly the threat of judicial reform should stay on the table so long as conservatives use judges to thwart democracy, as they did in FDR’s day.
By
Ed Kilgore
brett kavanaugh
Sept. 17, 2019
All the Unanswered Questions From Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearings
In addition to the sexual misconduct claims, the confirmation process failed to fully resolve questions about Kavanaugh’s emails, debts, and finances.
By
Matt Stieb
supreme court
Sept. 17, 2019
Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley Pushes Kavanaugh Impeachment Resolution
Leaders in the Democratic Party aren’t interested.
By
Adam K. Raymond
green new deal
Sept. 16, 2019
Another Obstacle for Climate Action: A Conservative Supreme Court
A new study suggests SCOTUS could obstruct the Green New Deal just as it once obstructed the original New Deal.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 16, 2019
This Is Why Presidential Candidates Should Think Before They Tweet
Democratic candidates might have waited a few days before invoking impeachment based on a New York
Times
story.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 16, 2019
Kavanaugh’s Impeachment May Have Just Become a 2020 Issue
Multiple Democratic presidential candidates said Congress should hold Justice Kavanaugh accountable in response to new sexual misconduct allegations.
By
Chas Danner
brett kavanaugh
Sept. 16, 2019
NYT
Makes Major Correction That Undermines Its Big Brett Kavanaugh Story
A woman who Kavanaugh reportedly sexually harassed at Yale does not remember the alleged incident.
By
Benjamin Hart
sexual assault
Sept. 16, 2019
What We Learned From the New Book on Brett Kavanaugh and His Accusers
The book from two New York
Times
reporters reveals a previously unknown allegation, and offers new details from Ramirez and Blasey Ford.
By
Sarah Jones
power
Sept. 15, 2019
Kavanaugh Accused of Exposing Himself to a Second Yale Classmate
The New York
Times
uncovered a previously unreported allegation against the Supreme Court justice.
By
Marie Lodi
abortion
Aug. 23, 2019
Anti-Abortion Activists Object to State Bans — But Only on Tactics
Anti-abortion leaders are discouraging extreme state abortion laws, preferring stealth until the time is ripe for a frontal assault on
Roe
v.
Wade
.
By
Ed Kilgore
2020 senate elections
July 18, 2019
Susan Collins’s Approval Rating Dives As Reelection Contest Approaches
The senator is losing popularity and is lashed to a president who is even more unpopular than she is in Maine.
By
Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 26, 2019
Gorsuch Gives SCOTUS Liberals a Win in Two Criminal-Law Cases
His application of Scalia’s strict principles of statutory interpretation, and perhaps a libertarian streak, distinguish Gorsuch from Kavanaugh.
By
Ed Kilgore
church-state separation
June 20, 2019
SCOTUS Splits on Church-State Separation in Peace Cross Case
While in the minority in the “Peace Cross” decision, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered an eloquent testimonial for the “wall of separation.”
By
Ed Kilgore
brett kavanaugh
June 4, 2019
Democratic Leaders’ Reluctance to Wage Kavanaugh Fight Looks Even Worse Today
Ryan Grim’s new book paints an unflattering portrait of Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein’s handling of the Kavanaugh confirmation fight.
By
Sarah Jones
kavanaugh watch
May 27, 2019
Is Justice Kavanaugh As Bad As Democrats Feared?
Conservatives’ salvation? Cautious operator? Here’s what we’ve learned so far about the impact Kavanaugh will have on the law, and Americans’ lives.
By
Ed Kilgore
reproductive rights
May 24, 2019
The Legal Fight Over Alabama’s Abortion Law Begins
Other, less drastic abortion laws are more likely to provide Supreme Court conservatives with the pretext to begin unraveling reproductive rights.
By
Ed Kilgore
scotus
May 13, 2019
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Aren’t the Georgetown Prep Twins After All
The two Trump justices are showing some differences, with Gorsuch acting as the more rigidly conservative jurist. But over time they could converge.
By
Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Apr. 23, 2019
Supreme Court Telegraphs Approval for Adding Citizenship Question to Census
If the decision goes the way it appears to be going, states with many immigrants will lose federal funds and all sorts of political clout.
By
Ed Kilgore
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