judges are politicians

19/12/2023

Well, this is shocking

The New York Times reported on Friday that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch signed onto the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade 10 minutes after receiving it.

19/12/2023

Abortion is decided by judges based on their pre-existing views.

The law has nothing to do with it

“We don't believe those rights should be subjected to majority vote.”

18/12/2023

Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.

16/12/2023

The secretive Judicial Conference is tasked with self-governance. The group, led by the Supreme Court’s chief justice, has spent decades preserving perks, defending judges and thwarting outside oversight.

14/11/2023

The code is so weak that it serves to legitimize Clarence Thomas’s corruption. It is literally worse than nothing.

25/10/2023

Loan to conservative justice from businessman Anthony Welters – which tax expert says ‘made no logical sense’ – was forgiven in 2008

15/10/2023

Stop the presses!

Republican Judges think racial gerrymandering is ok if you call black people Democrats

The Supreme Court’s conservatives expressed doubt at oral arguments Wednesday that South Carolina GOP lawmakers engaged in impermissible racial gerrymandering when they redrew congressional lines for a House seat to benefit Republicans.

12/10/2023

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

30/08/2023

It’s not the justices’ politics that are making them unpopular. It’s their overconfidence.

25/08/2023

Shocked

Manhattan Institute one of eight conservative advocacy groups that filed amicus briefs urging the court to hear Moore v US

15/08/2023

The Court’s Republican majority has ground the Constitution’s establishment clause down to a nub.

11/08/2023

Thomas can't resign. He is a Republican judge and there is a Democratic President. He also can't be impeached as the House is Republican. So, he will remain on the Court.

Calls for the supreme court justice to resign grow as new details of 38 more undeclared gifts and vacations from rich donors emerge

11/08/2023

See what happens to billionaires who refuse to take supreme justices on million dollar vacations. The threat is real.

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Purdue Pharma from going forward with bankruptcy proceedings, which the Biden administration has called an “unprecedented” arrangement that would ultimately offer the Sackler family broad protection from opioid-related civil claims.

10/08/2023

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

01/08/2023

Fix the Court’s Gabe Roth responds to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s July 28 interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying his statements will encourage suits claiming the financial disclosure law is unconstitutional under separation of powers.

25/07/2023

Israeli lawmakers on Monday passed a law stripping the Supreme Court of its power to block government decisions, the first part of a judicial overhaul that has sparked six months of street protests and criticism from the White House.

17/07/2023

The major questions doctrine, explained.

16/07/2023

Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

13/07/2023

Papers show how judges come in regular contact with big donors and have lent the prestige of their position to aid partisan activity

12/07/2023

Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him

11/07/2023

The works have earned Sotomayor $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Her taxpayer-funded staffers have been deeply involved in organizing speaking engagements intended to sell the books.

11/07/2023

The court has vastly overextended its own power and flaunted its corruption. It will take a political movement to stop them

03/07/2023

"When history looks back on the term that just ended, what stands out the most may not be any particular ruling, but rather its place in the trend — long-simmering, but quickly accelerating — toward seeing the court for what it is: the single most powerful weapon in U.S. politics."

The justices tried for a very long time to cultivate a perception that they existed on an elevated plane above elected politicians.

30/06/2023

I don't think the Republican majority is considering evidence in this case

Christian website designer says she received email request from same-sex couple but ‘author’ says he did not send it – and is not gay

29/06/2023

"The dismissal of race and racism dialogue in higher education should alarm all Americans, because the supreme court decision is not about restricting unfair racial advantage in college admissions – it is about maintaining the social inequality that has long restricted most Americans, regardless of their race, while a few are allowed to preserve and maintain their privileged status in society. The result is a weakened university that does not solve racial problems but instead upholds them."

The court’s ruling reflects a decades-long drive to return higher education to the control of a white privileged class

29/06/2023

As expected

The Supreme Court ruled colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis in admissions — a landmark decision that overturns long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.

26/06/2023

Threats abounded as the high court faced constant security challenges, a blistering leak investigation and wounding ethics scandals while struggling to find a new balance.

24/06/2023

This is what gutting the Voting Rights Act looks like.

23/06/2023

The Court’s decision in United States v. Texas stops rogue judges from seizing control of law enforcement.

21/06/2023

Justice Samuel Alito did not disclose a luxury 2008 trip he took in which a hedge fund billionaire flew him on a private jet, even though the businessman would later repeatedly ask the Supreme Court to intervene on his behalf, ProPublica reported.

08/06/2023

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

25/05/2023

The U.S. Supreme Court placed new restrictions on the scope of the jurisdiction the Clean Water Act has over wetlands, ruling in favor of Idaho landowners who had challenged the law.

24/05/2023

John Roberts speaks on same day lawyers for Harlan Crow decline to cooperate with Senate judiciary committee over gifts scandal