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To be fair, some Dems have made an effort to expand the court. In 2023, a group of senators and representatives including Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Tina Smith, Hank Johnson, Jerrold Nadler, Cori Bush, and Adam Schiff, reintroduced legislation to...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 04:50 AM PDT
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There is arguably no institution in this country more consequential than the federal judicial system, and�none that has been as pervasively corrupted by the Republican Party.
by Dartagnan
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM PDT
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Abortion remains legal in the conservative stronghold because of a 25-year-old state Supreme Court ruling �that protected it under the right to privacy included in the state’s constitution. So far,
by KFF Health News
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 02:55 PM PDT
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This seems to have flown under the radar but apparently the federal judiciary has decided to heal thyself by ending the practice of judge-shopping. As of today, any case “aimed at invalidating a national policy or statute or a state law or executive...
by cls180
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 06:07 PM PDT
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Rep. Jim Jordan’s latest House Judiciary Committee hearing targeting President Joe Biden is not going particularly well. As with most of the “investigations” into Biden being led by Republican ...
by Walter Einenkel
202 comments
on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 10:41 AM PDT
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Stephen Colbert -- or rather "Stephen Colbert," in his former character -- famously said that "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." And so conservatives must deny reality, which as in the case of anthropogenic climate change means denying scientific...
by therealcervantes
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 06:56 AM PST
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President Joe Biden has appointed—and, as of of Jan. 31, the Senate has confirmed—174 federal judges to fill the country’s district courts and circuit courts of appeal, according to Ballotpedia. There are still about 60 current vacancies. That’s not a...
by Dartagnan
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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As we head into the final year of his first term, President Biden is 21 judicial appointments behind former President Trump’s pace of 187 confirmed judges after three years. This is not for a lack of nominations by the White House, but for a lack of...
by Russ Feingold
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 07:35 AM PST
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Before I begin, I hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Christmas. �Writing may slow down some through the new year. �Though, lets me fair, this place is already kind of sporadic. �But I hope to ...
by angryea
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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This will be short but never the less a warning to those who think that they are indispensable to someone who gains all the power in a country and who wields unlimited power. Dictators do not share power. They don’t need a supreme court or any other...
by myoungatheart5
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 04:18 PM PST
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Federal appellate court decisions are never off the cuff. Every word is vetted, multiple times. In a case involving a former president currently under indictment, that vetting is even more intensive. There is not a word, not a citation, not a...
by Dartagnan
270 comments
on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 05:58 PM PST
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For all those professional handwringers so worried about Biden’s age, just keep in mind that it’s results that count, not age, or resume, or whatever the New York Times says is dooming democrats this week. And Biden gets results. You can read the full...
by Yojo
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 11:00 PM PST
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General Milley, just-retired JCOS chairman being threatened with physical harm by MAGA President to the extent he has to hire private security. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), seconding the MAGA ex-president, saying General Milley should be ‘hung’. (His...
by citixen
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 02:21 PM PDT
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On 4/4/23, the left-leaning moderate Janet Protasiewicz freely and fairly won a seat on Wisconsin’s supreme court. There, since her swearing in, the party/cult of Donald Trump has been relegated to minority status. To anyone this side of Roger Stone or...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Recently, several allegations of unchecked influence and potential corruption have tainted the image of the Supreme Court. The lifetime appointment of justices to the bench has led to an alarming ...
by msouza
132 comments
on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 10:59 AM PDT
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The Congressional Black Caucus has been banging on Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin’s door for months , pleading with him to end the “Jim Crow practice” of giving Republicans veto power ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Starting now, another Jim Jordan witch hunt. www.youtube.com/... ___________ I wanted to post this just as the hearing began. On edit: Another edit to add this:
by jqjacobs
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on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 07:06 AM PDT
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There’s blood in the water around the Supreme Court now and investigative journalists are swarming, finding all the fodder they need for a scandal in the form of Justice Clarence Thomas alone. The ...
by Joan McCarter
124 comments
on Mon Jul 10, 2023 at 02:10 PM PDT
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About seven years ago I wrote several pieces on Daily Kos about the Republican’s plan to utilize the Senate confirmations process to pack the Judiciary with conservative Federalist Society judges in effort to legislate through the courts. The premise...
by Wandering In The Desert
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on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 08:40 AM PDT
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Lauren Boebert’s move left Republican leaders looking for an off-ramp to avoid an up-or-down vote on articles of impeachment, which would have divided Republicans and forced those from moderate districts to take a more difficult vote. Aside from the...
by annieli
28 comments
on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 11:42 PM PDT
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