Neomi Rao Understands What It Means to Be a Trump Judge For conservative judges with Supreme Court aspirations, nothing is more important than reminding the president what you are willing to do for him.

Neomi Rao felt herself slipping down the list of Trump's Supreme Court contenders. She found a way to get noticed

Trump Is Making the Most of the Judicial Nominations He Has Left The president keeps appointing hardline conservatives to life-tenured federal judgeships. But with a tight Senate calendar and the midterms looming, time is running out.

Trump doesn't have a ton of appeals court vacancies left to fill. But he's making the most of them

The Supreme Court Keeps Embracing Convenient Lies to Excuse Rank Bigotry Trans kids are only the latest victims of the justices’ willingness to buy dubious arguments in support of a reactionary policy agenda.

"Too often, the Court has willingly embraced falsehoods urged on it by parties making excuses for bigotry. Trans kids are the latest victims of that weaponized gullibility."

When Trump Judges Complain About “Woke Ideology,” Everyone Knows What They Mean Eighth Circuit nominee Justin Smith says he’ll decide cases “fairly and impartially.” On LinkedIn, he still describes himself as “an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values.”

Trump judicial nominees are barely pretending to keep up the "do law, not politics" act anymore

The Trump White House Is Very Upset About States That Won’t Do Its Dirty Work Citing a long line of Supreme Court precedent, federal judges have been reluctant to force state law enforcement officials to help enforce immigration law.

Citing a long line of Supreme Court precedent, federal judges have been reluctant to force state law enforcement officials to help enforce immigration law.

When Trump Judges Complain About “Woke Ideology,” Everyone Knows What They Mean Eighth Circuit nominee Justin Smith says he’ll decide cases “fairly and impartially.” On LinkedIn, he still describes himself as “an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values.”

Tell us more about the "rule of law" though

The Trump White House Is Very Upset About States That Won’t Do Its Dirty Work Citing a long line of Supreme Court precedent, federal judges have been reluctant to force state law enforcement officials to help enforce immigration law.

Trump wants states to implement his immigration enforcement agenda. The Supreme Court has long held that states have to do no such thing

The Supreme Court Keeps Embracing Convenient Lies to Excuse Rank Bigotry Trans kids are only the latest victims of the justices’ willingness to buy dubious arguments in support of a reactionary policy agenda.

A throughline of Supreme Court jurisprudence is the justices' willingness to accept ridiculous lies in order to excuse bigotry of all kinds

Trump Judge Gives Qualified Immunity to Cops Who Brought Murder Charges Against a Woman Who Had an Abortion Thanks to Tipton’s ruling, the officials who violated Lizelle Gonzalez's rights won’t be held accountable in court.

Nothing a Trump judge loves more than declaring lawbreaking cops beyond the legal system's reach

How Originalism Broke the First Amendment The Supreme Court’s myopic focus on history and tradition yields free speech jurisprudence that is both incoherent and dangerous.

The Supreme Court's conservative justices have stretched the concept of "speech" to its breaking point h

Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts.

If the Supreme Court had a case before it about whether Brett Kavanaugh is too annoying to be legal, it probably goes 8-1

Ed Blum Is Trying to Keep Black Kids Out of School Again The latest target of America’s most aggrieved white guy: a Congressional Black Caucus scholarship program for Black students in their districts.

Find something you love doing in this world as much as Ed Blum loves slapping together incoherent, morally bankrupt lawsuits that he hopes will make it harder for Black kids to go to school

How Originalism Broke the First Amendment The Supreme Court’s myopic focus on history and tradition yields free speech jurisprudence that is both incoherent and dangerous.

"Originalism’s expansion has broken something fundamental in First Amendment law, primarily because the Court has applied it in only one direction. As such, the boundaries of the right can only grow. Which means that the scope of democratic authority can only shrink."

Trump Judge Gives Qualified Immunity to Cops Who Brought Murder Charges Against a Woman Who Had an Abortion Thanks to Tipton’s ruling, the officials who violated Lizelle Gonzalez's rights won’t be held accountable in court.

Remember when anti-choice activists said ending Roe v. Wade would make women safer

Trump Judge Gives Qualified Immunity to Cops Who Brought Murder Charges Against a Woman Who Had an Abortion Thanks to Tipton’s ruling, the officials who violated Lizelle Gonzalez's rights won’t be held accountable in court.

Now Trump judges are ensuring that the cops arresting women who end their own pregnancies never face any meaningful consequences

Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts.

We are like 18 months away at most from a sitting Supreme Court justice publicly describing Brett Kavanaugh as a dummy

Ed Blum Is Trying to Keep Black Kids Out of School Again The latest target of America’s most aggrieved white guy: a Congressional Black Caucus scholarship program for Black students in their districts.

Live your life in such a way that you don't spend your retirement trying to make life worse for teenagers who don't look like you

Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts.

Everybody at work hates Brett

Ed Blum Is Trying to Keep Black Kids Out of School Again The latest target of America’s most aggrieved white guy: a Congressional Black Caucus scholarship program for Black students in their districts.

Ed Blum will not rest until he is sure he never has to see another Black person again

The Right’s Crusade Against Birthright Citizenship Is Just Getting Started A single vote for Trump would be as shameful as anything the Court has done in recent memory—and set the stage for future attacks on the Constitution’s promises.

The conservative legal movement always, always, ALWAYS plays the long game

The Supreme Court Sounds Pretty Skeptical of States That Want Protect Your Right to Vote By signaling their willingness to intervene in state court decisions that protect voting rights, the conservative justices are building a one-way anti-democratic ratchet.

Sam Alito doesn't want the federal government protecting your right to vote. He doesn't want states doing it, either

How the Supreme Court Made the First Amendment a Tool For Getting the Results the Justices Want The right to free speech is sacred in this country—especially if your speech is speech that Neil Gorsuch likes.

The Supreme Court's free speech jurisprudence is flexible enough to get the conservatives the real-world outcomes they want

The Supreme Court Sounds Pretty Skeptical of States That Want Protect Your Right to Vote By signaling their willingness to intervene in state court decisions that protect voting rights, the conservative justices are building a one-way anti-democratic ratchet.

"Alito thinks state measures designed to protect voters of color from racist and illegal attacks on their rights are themselves racist and illegal. And the Court’s conservative majority is happy to meddle in states whose laws they disagree with."

The Supreme Court Sounds Pretty Skeptical of States That Want Protect Your Right to Vote By signaling their willingness to intervene in state court decisions that protect voting rights, the conservative justices are building a one-way anti-democratic ratchet.

Nothing makes Sam Alito more upset than a state trying to protect rights that he doesn't care about

How the Supreme Court Made the First Amendment a Tool For Getting the Results the Justices Want The right to free speech is sacred in this country—especially if your speech is speech that Neil Gorsuch likes.

The conservative supermajority's "heads I win, tails civil rights lose" era continues apace

How the Supreme Court Made the First Amendment a Tool For Getting the Results the Justices Want The right to free speech is sacred in this country—especially if your speech is speech that Neil Gorsuch likes.

Your First Amendment right to free speech is SO important to Neil Gorsuch (if Neil Gorsuch likes your speech)

Pam Bondi Was Bad. Trump’s Next Attorney General Will Be Worse Trump gets rid of Cabinet members for one reason: He’s decided that his interests would be better served by an even more obedient loyalist.

Pam Bondi might be gone but we will always have "THE DOW IS AT 50,000" to treasure

Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That The opinion in Jennings v. Smith transforms the state’s stop-and-identify law into a show-me-your-papers regime.

It is impossible to parody qualified immunity at this point

Kentucky Republicans Are Trying to Impeach a Judge For Acknowledging That Racism Exists The impeachment inquiries against Judges Pamela Goodwine and Julie Muth Goodman set a dangerous precedent.

Kentucky Republicans are getting very tired of state court judges who don't do exactly what they want

Pam Bondi Was Bad. Trump’s Next Attorney General Will Be Worse Trump gets rid of Cabinet members for one reason: He’s decided that his interests would be better served by an even more obedient loyalist.

The thing about Trump's Cabinet picks is that they can absolutely always get worse