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Alito and Thomas Urged to Recuse From Key Case Over 'Cozy Ties' to Right-Wing Kingpin
March 19, 2025Balint reintroduces the Stop Comstock Act to repeal law that could be used to implement abortion ban
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March 12, 2025John Roberts’ MAGA conversion: How Donald Trump remade the Supreme Court in his image
September 17, 2024Abortion Rights Groups Ramp Up Pressure on Dem Leaders, Chuck Schumer to Repeal Comstock
September 11, 2024Advocacy groups urge Schumer to hold vote on repealing Comstock abortion law
September 10, 2024What Do We Do About the Supreme Court?
August 23, 2024Supreme Court Denies Biden Administration's Request to Reinstate Expanded Title IX Rule
August 16, 2024Biden’s Plan to Reform a ‘Rogue Supreme Court’
August 4, 2024Biden’s Call for Supreme Court Reform Is Long Overdue
July 29, 2024Biden to push for Supreme Court ethics reform, term limits and amendment to overturn immunity ruling, sources say
July 17, 2024As Supreme Court grapples with ethical concerns, Democrats mull how to take advantage of its unpopularity
June 16, 2024'Texting about Trump?': Experts think Speaker Johnson is talking to Supreme Court justices
May 31, 2024“Nearly Ludicrous”: Sheldon Whitehouse Isn’t Buying John Roberts’s Defense of the Supreme Court
May 31, 2024There’s Movement On a Comstock Act Repeal
May 16, 2024Congress Urged to Repeal Comstock Act Threatening Reproductive Rights and Public Health
May 16, 2024Covering the Friends of the Court
May 2, 2024The Gaping Hole In Supreme Court Rules for Tracking Links Between Litigants and Influence Groups
April 18, 2024The Christian Right’s Imaginary Nation
March 15, 2024Supreme Court to Decide on Trump Immunity Claim in 2020 Election Case
February 28, 2024Republicans’ Absurdist Reproductive Policies Are Coming for Us All
February 27, 2024'Loosey-Goosey' Standing Rulings Pose Threats To Judiciary
February 23, 2024SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case That Could Limit Abortion Pill Access
December 13, 2023The Supreme Court’s path to issuing an ethics code and the fine print
November 14, 2023The Supreme Court finally has a code of ethics. Will it matter?
November 14, 2023Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code Is Too Little, Far Too Late
November 14, 2023SCOTUS Adopts First-ever Code of Conduct
November 14, 2023The Supreme Court adopts first-ever code of ethics
November 13, 2023The Supreme Court adopts first-ever code of ethics
November 13, 2023Supreme Court announces new ethics code
November 13, 2023In 'Toothless PR Stunt,' Supreme Court Publishes Ethics Code With No Enforcement Mechanisms
November 13, 2023John Roberts’ conservative SCOTUS majority 'rigging the docket' against voting rights: analysis
November 10, 2023John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Are Rigging the Supreme Court Docket
November 10, 2023John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Are Rigging the Supreme Court Docket
November 10, 2023Chief justice urged to make Alito and Thomas step aside in megadonor cases
September 29, 2023In 'Very Big Deal for the Survival of Our Democracy,' SCOTUS Rejects Fringe Legal Theory
June 27, 2023The Conservative Supreme Court’s Decisions Restrict Young Americans’ Rights and Freedoms
June 21, 2023A Supreme Court Ruling That Could Tip the House
June 8, 2023'An Inflection Point': Planned Parenthood Applauded for Backing US Supreme Court Expansion
May 15, 2023Pressure grows on Supreme Court to embrace ethics reforms
April 28, 2023Neil Gorsuch caught selling property to head of law firm “involved in at least 22” SCOTUS cases
April 25, 2023Justice Neil Gorsuch’s property sale to prominent lawyer raises more ethical questions
April 25, 2023“We Can’t Lower the Bar So Low”: Can the Senate Rein in a Scandal-Plagued Supreme Court?
April 21, 2023Republicans request documents from Biden’s Supreme Court commission
February 24, 2023Analysis: Abortion pill lawsuit faces Texas judge who often rules for conservatives
February 10, 2023Kavanaugh touts 'great relations' among Court justices despite 'obvious departure from collegiality'
January 27, 2023Progressives blast Supreme Court over secret payments of at least $1 million to the ex-Bush official who reviewed the leak investigation
January 27, 2023Supreme Court failed to disclose that guy who signed off on leak report is on their payroll
January 27, 2023The “Special Treatment” Supreme Court Justices Got During The Leak Investigation Should Be Investigated, Group Tells Congress
January 26, 2023Supreme Court is unable to ID the leaker in Dobbs decision
January 19, 2023Three Republicans eye ladder-climbs
January 17, 2023Eight storms down, one to go.
January 17, 2023House launches probe into Samuel Alito’s alleged leak and “collusion” with right-wingers
December 2, 2022Progressive Judicial Groups, Democrats Call For Investigation Into Alleged Alito Leak
November 19, 2022Supreme Court's conservative rulings left mark on election results
November 11, 2022Biden gives harshest criticism of Supreme Court yet, might just be leaning toward Court reform
October 17, 2022On Supreme Court, liberals have one job to do—and they’re not doing it
September 29, 2022They overturned Roe and, amid the chaos, gutted 12 more rights and freedoms you might have missed
September 19, 2022This is what anti-democracy looks like!
August 19, 2022Taking Back the Supreme Court
August 2, 2022Can We Finally Expand the Supreme Court NOW?
July 21, 2022Bills introduced to codify same-sex marriage
July 19, 2022Expanding the Supreme Court: Weapon or Tool?
July 19, 2022Democrats Renew Call To Expand Supreme Court Post-Dobbs
July 18, 2022Democratic Efforts to Expand the Supreme Court
July 18, 2022Take Back The Court Interview with BBC
June 30, 2022Is Biden a Man Out of Time?
June 30, 2022Analysis | Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Collins v. Kavanaugh
June 27, 2022"We won't go back!": Spontaneous protests break out across U.S. after Supreme Court overturns Roe
June 24, 2022What Can Donors do to Build Support for Court Expansion?
June 17, 2022Roe the last straw? 63% of Americans already believe the Supreme Court is politically motivated
May 20, 2022After Which Failed Pregnancy Should I Have Been Imprisoned? Rep. Lucy McBath on Reproductive Rights
May 20, 2022Abortion rights groups from across the country are joining Sen. Ed Markey’s push to expand the Supreme Court.
May 19, 2022Opinion: What can Democrats do about Clarence Thomas?
April 1, 2022CounterSpin: Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict
April 1, 2022For "the integrity of the court": Why Clarence Thomas' wife is a major problem for the Supreme Court
March 9, 2022The Supreme Court Is Even More Conservative Than You Think
February 9, 2022Breyer’s retirement gives Democrats a big political opportunity. Will they take it?
January 26, 2022Expand the Supreme Court
December 15, 2021Top Court Expansion Clamor Resumes as Biden Commission Wraps
December 7, 2021‘Court-Packing’ Doesn’t Seem So Radical After TX Abortion Law
September 17, 2021The judicial black box of Supreme Court recusal
August 18, 2021Oligarchy Day at the Supreme Court
July 1, 2021Democrats Concerned About Supreme Court's Future
June 17, 2021Supreme Court Dismisses Red State Challenge to Obamacare
June 17, 2021Progressives call on Justice Stephen Breyer to retire amid McConnell's threats to block future Supreme Court nominees
June 16, 2021McConnell sparks new Supreme Court fight
June 15, 2021Democratic Lawmakers Present Plan to Expand Supreme Court
April 15, 2021The Supreme Court Does Not Deserve Our Trust
April 13, 2021Biden’s Supreme Court reform commission won’t fix anything
April 10, 2021Biden unveils commission to study changes at Supreme Court after pressure from progressives
April 9, 2021The Urgent Need for Court Expansion
March 12, 2021The future of voting rights is looking pretty bleak
March 2, 2021The Democrats’ Last Chance to Save Democracy
February 22, 2021Term Limits More Likely Than Court Packing from Biden Panel
February 16, 2021Adding Supreme Court justices? Progressives may be on collision course with Joe Biden
February 8, 2021Don't Believe the GOP Hype on Court Expansion
February 1, 2021Biden starts staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform
January 27, 2021Biden Was Against Packing The Supreme Court. A New Progressive Group Wants To Change His Mind.
January 27, 2021Courts’ Republican Appointees Are Dismantling Voting Rights: Study
October 16, 2020The Precedent, and Perils, of Court Packing
October 12, 2020Liberals Weigh Jurisdiction Stripping to Rein in Supreme Court
October 6, 2020Debate Looms on Supreme Court Expansion
October 3, 2020Into Expanding the Supreme Court
September 28, 2020How the ‘minority rule’ problem could get much worse
September 28, 2020The Democrats’ Supreme Court Hail Mary
September 24, 2020The Democrats’ Supreme Court Hail Mary
September 24, 2020Some Democrats – but not Biden – talk of expanding SCOTUS
September 22, 2020Trump’s Swift Push To Replace Justice Ginsburg Has Democrats Rallying Around Court-Packing
September 21, 2020How Court Packing Can Protect the Election—and Democracy
September 21, 2020Some urge Democrats to expand the Supreme Court if they take power in 2021. Could they do that?
September 21, 2020Making the Case for Court Expansion
September 20, 2020“RBG and the fight to come.”
September 19, 2020Democrats Really Might Try to Pack the Courts
September 19, 2020The left channels its fury toward McConnell
September 19, 2020Quick Thoughts on Saving the Supreme Court
September 18, 2020Trump’s New List Of Supreme Court Nominees Includes A Judge Who Served In His White House And Three Republican Senators
September 9, 2020Liberal groups back plan to expand Supreme Court
June 11, 2020Embracing Supreme Court Expansion Carries No Political Cost, Study Says
February 17, 2020The most radical Democratic plan to fix the Supreme Court yet
January 31, 2020Farm Bureau sets policy goals for 2020
January 23, 2020Does U.S. Supreme Court undermine small farms?
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January 22, 2020Report: Supreme Court would rule against Democratic farm proposals
January 21, 2020Happy Hour Roundup
January 21, 2020Senate Republicans Must Stop Confirming the Judicial Nominees of an Impeached President
January 8, 2020John Roberts' New Year's message rings hollow—because the chief justice is a partisan hack
January 3, 2020The next Democratic president will face huge hurdles. Here’s one.
December 10, 2019The Pragmatic Case for A Revolutionary Democratic Nominee
November 19, 2019US politics is stuck. Can the climate movement shake it loose?
September 23, 2019The Oceans Don't Care What Associate Justice Boof Says
September 18, 2019Another Obstacle for Climate Action: A Conservative Supreme Court
September 16, 2019Not just Kavanaugh: Another alarming reason to fear the Supreme Court
September 16, 2019Republicans Have Been Winning On Judges For Decades. Democrats Have Barely Talked About It.
September 13, 201918 Questions. 21 Democrats. Here’s What They Said.
June 18, 2019‘Oh, we’d fill it’: How McConnell is doing a 180 on Supreme Court vacancies in an election year
May 29, 2019McConnell now says he’d hold SCOTUS hearings in an election year — in a reversal of 2016
May 29, 2019Mitch McConnell Smiled As He Said He Would Fill Supreme Court Vacancy In 2020, Breaking Own Rule Set For Obama
May 28, 2019Conservatives are already packing the courts. Democrats must respond to this power grab.
May 7, 2019How to Fix the Conservative Hijacking of the Supreme Court
April 26, 2019Enough playing nice. It’s time to pack the courts
April 19, 2019The Case for Court Packing
April 5, 2019If You Can’t Beat the System, Reform the System
April 5, 2019Will Supreme Court Reform Be an Issue for 2020 Democrats?
March 18, 2019Liberals take another look at court-packing as way to control Supreme Court (if they win in 2020)
March 11, 2019Liberals take another look at court-packing as way to control Supreme Court (if they win in 2020)
March 11, 2019Progressive activists push 2020 Dems to pack Supreme Court
February 25, 2019New campaign seeks support for expanded Supreme Court
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