by Noah Feldman You don’t need a legal expert to tell you that Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision striking down the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump is terribly wrong. What’s less obvious is that Cannon’s opinion isn’t ...
by Lawrence Goldstone For a man who spent decades sitting in silence on the Supreme Court bench, Clarence Thomas has certainly found a way to get his name in the news. Since the beginning of 2022, Thomas has seen his wife Ginni exposed as having been deeply involved in the ...
In addition to the lavish trips previously reported, ProPublica has now revealed that, in 2014, right-wing billionaire Harlan Crow bought a Savannah house and lots part-owned by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, where the jurist’s mother still lived. If the earlier unreported trips ...
A bombshell report in ProPublica reveals that almost every year for two decades plus, a billionaire Republican donor has taken U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on his private jet and yacht or hosted him on his luxury East Texas ranch or at his private resort in the Adirondacks. And ...
by Will Bunch So it turns out that a huge number of voters actually do understand that it’s essential for a functioning democracy to have a fair and uncompromised judiciary, even when the rules needed to make that happen tend to be arcane and unsexy. They finally get it ... in ...
by Robert Reich Trump’s legal problems are mounting — with growing probability of criminal prosecutions for his attempted coup, theft of top-secret documents, and tax fraud. You know where all this is going to end up, right? The Supreme Court. What are the chances that ...