Biden has big week in judicial nominations: 13th appeals court confirmation and 13th slate named

President Joe Biden issued his thirteenth round of judicial nominees this week, and again, the eight new nominations are among the most diverse in personal and professional experiences ever elevated …

Federal courts backtrack after accidentally giving their workers a chance to report misconduct

Officials at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts recently made a mistake: They provided an opening for staffers in federal judges’ offices to report that they had “witnessed wrongful conduct …

Against backdrop of voting rights fight, Senate GOP can’t hide their racism in nomination hearing

It seems a new “get tough” attitude is taking hold among Senate Democrats this week, with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ready to force his caucus’ hand on ending the filibuster for voting rights. Now …

Justice Breyer's obstinate rejection of reality proves why the Supreme Court needs to be expanded

If there is anyone in Washington, D.C. as stubborn, arrogant, and thick-headed as Sen. Joe Manchin this week, it’s Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. The 83-year-old remains doggedly …

Justice Sotomayor makes the case for expanding the Supreme Court

Perhaps the most riveting moment in Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing on Mississippi’s challenge to abortion rights came from Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Six conservative justices showed their …

Biden making history on judicial appointees, but still hampered by those pesky blue slips

President Joe Biden has done some outstanding work identifying and seating federal judges. As of Oct. 1, 14 federal circuit and district judges had been confirmed. Remarkably, this month the Senate …

Supreme Court keeps Texas abortion ban in place ahead of hearing, McConnell gloats over his coup

The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas abortion ban to say in place until at least November 1, when it has agreed to an expedited review of the law following the Biden administration’s challenge. …

Biden’s Supreme Court commission proves to be the farce we all expected

The “blue ribbon” commission appointed by President Joe Biden to study the problem of Republican court packing, particularly at the U.S. Supreme Court, has gone beyond being an ineffective and useless …

How to deal with a radical Supreme Court? 34% say abolish it

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the highest court in the land three years ago this week. (Thanks for that, Joe Manchin!). Oct. 6, 2018 stands as an inflection point in the …

Garland connects all the dots for Supreme Court on precedent in Texas abortion ban suit

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sued Texas over that state’s unconstitutional abortion ban, a ban that the radical Supreme Court let stand last week in an unprecedented “shadow …

Expanding the Supreme Court is likely the only way to save it, let alone the republic

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler announced Thursday that his committee would hold hearings “to shine a light on the Supreme Court’s dangerous and cowardly use of the shadow …

Democrats need to fight this abortion ban, and by 'fight' we don't mean 'fundraise'

Thus far, it appears that President Joe Biden is going to be waiting for his court reform commission to weigh in before he thinks he needs to do anything about the conservative Supreme Court. …

Congress and Biden must answer Justice Kagan's extraordinary call to action and expand the Court

[T]he majority’s decision is emblematic of too much of this Court’s shadow-docket decision-making—which every day becomes more un-reasoned, inconsistent, and impossible to defend.

That’s Supreme …

Thanks, Susan Collins, for this Supreme Court. Let her be the cautionary tale for Sinema

Remember when Sen. Susan Collins was so certain that Supreme Court nominee Brett “I like beer” Kavanaugh would respect the precedent of Roe v. Wade? Remember when she said this:

That was in her floor …

Biden, Schumer, Pelosi: Enough talk. Act. Expand the courts. Now.

The Supreme Court just made it absolutely clear that they’re ready to toss the one thing Democrats have been running on since 1973, the year Roe v. Wade was decided—protecting women’s …

Conservatives on the Supreme Court have their chance to kill Roe v. Wade and leave no fingerprints

By the end of Tuesday, the Supreme Court could allow a Texas law that would effectively overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and they could do it from the shadow docket without …

Six conservative Supreme Court justices are trying to rule the nation from the shadows

The Supreme Court six in the radically conservative majority did it again: They struck down the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium in another unsigned shadow docket decision. This …

Supreme Court radicals provide all the proof Biden, Democrats need to reform it

The radical and unlawful Supreme Court decision handed down Tuesday on immigration makes reforming that court all the more urgent, before they can do more damage to an increasingly fragile system of …

The conservative Supreme Court majority is issuing some of its most extreme rulings in the shadows

As bad as the U.S. Supreme Court’s regular decisions were this year, what it has done in its "shadow docket" has been particularly dangerous. That includes 10 emergency requests by …

Another wing-nut federal judge demonstrates just why the courts need reform and expansion

Another federal judge on Friday provided more proof that President Joe Biden and the Democratic Senate majority has to step up on court reform and do it soon. Federal Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that the …