Slate Magazine editor, MSNBC contributor and best selling author of Lady Justice - Women, The Law, and The Battle to Save America Dahlia Lithwick, has had about enough of the CONservatives on the Supreme Court pronouncing that they are...
Well, after an "exhaustive", "thorough" investigation of the fairly small number of Justices, their clerks and other staff that work in the SOTUS building the news today is "Golly.  Gee Whiz.  We just can't get a handle on who...
If you thought Roe v. Wade was a gamechanger and a hot button political topic, hold my beer. The Supreme Court has heard oral argument on Moore v. Harper, which articulates a fringe theory that state legislatures are all...
Federal judges must adhere to a detailed ethics code of conduct, with one exception -- the U.S. Supreme Court has no ethics code. - In fact, all lawyers who appear before federal courts are bound by the detailed Code of Professional...
Associate Justice Amy Comey Barrett, whom drumpf Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany once called a “Rhodes Scholar” because she attended Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee, really wowed the crowd at this week’s Federalist Society dinner honoring four of the five...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was quoted in yesterday’s Washington Post as saying that the leak of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade made the justices “targets for assassination”. “The leak last spring before the court eliminated...
From where I'm sitting, the only small ray of bitter sunshine in this whole pathetic Clarence Thomas saga is that Thomas is currently cementing his historical legacy as the most incompetent, morally bankrupt, corrupt  Supreme Court Justice in American...
I swear to God, Trump's Florida lawyers must have gotten their law degrees from offshore Caribbean island colleges so exotic that, when they showed their diplomas to the state bar examiner, the examiner had to look them up on...
It was not all smooth sailing today at the Supreme Court for Alabama pols who wish to gain the right to establish exactly 0 majority-minority Congressional districts in Alabama, a state where African-Americans make up 25% of the population,...
The interesting thing about Donald Trump is that he has always believed his own press. This goes back to the days when he was his own press agent(s), John Barron and David Dennison. He would call into the National...

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