CLARENCE THOMAS

Following the Supreme Court's decision, Carlie Brown and Molly Pela rescheduled their wedding for nine months earlier. They fear that without federal protections, their family remains vulnerable.

Both Republican and Democratic presidents have their reasons for choosing nominees from such a small pool.

The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over issues including age limits and bans on AR-15-style guns.

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion access in the wake of the June Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

After riding high on a promise to bring 50 charter schools to Tennessee, the relationship between the president of Michigan's Hillsdale College and Gov. Bill Lee has cooled over the past several months.

The Respect for Marriage Act would ensure that same-sex marriages are recognized nationwide.

As the Senate contemplates legislation to protect same-sex marriages, there has been a sharp shift in Republican support for the issue.

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the George Washington University law school received calls to drop Thomas and cancel the seminar he taught.

Many are celebrating the justice's departure, but it's the latest example of how dissenting views are systematically eliminated in higher education.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has backed out of teaching a seminar at George Washington University’s law school in the nation’s capital, following student protests and the university’s statement of support for the conservative justice’s role on campus.

After a flurry of hearings, the Jan. 6 committee is taking a step back to examine new evidence. What else might we learn when hearings resume in September?

Baldwin, the first openly gay person elected to the Senate, is leading the charge to secure the 10 Republican votes needed for a filibuster-proof majority to pass a bill codifying marriage equality.

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) attended his son's same-sex wedding Friday, three days after voting against federal legislation that would protect gay marriages.

Lawmakers plan to interview additional witnesses and reconvene in September to resume laying out their Jan. 6 findings to the public.

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

Cheney said Sunday that her work on the committee "is the single most important thing I've ever done professionally," even if she loses her seat over it.

The House Jan. 6 committee plans to interview more former Cabinet secretaries and is prepared to subpoena conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who’s married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as part of its investigation of the Capitol riot and Donald Trump’s role.

The Jan. 6 committee has vowed its investigation will continue, after a primetime hearing on Thursday capped off six weeks of televised testimony.

Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the leaders of the investigation, said she hopes Thomas will voluntarily cooperate with the congressional committee.

Her history as both a former member of Lifespring and an anti-cult activist has prompted questions about her alignment with far-right conspiracy theories.

Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v_ Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into what he called an “egregious breach.”.

Senate Democrats should take their cues from the House.

The bill is the latest example of Democrats latching onto their own version of culture war battles to appeal to female, progressive & minority voters.

Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state is seeking her sixth term at a new inflection point for women.

Democrats have pushed legislation through the House that would inscribe the right to use contraceptives into law.

Thomas has called for the review of rulings granting Americans the right to birth-control access, gay relationships, and marriage equality.

The Senate has unexpectedly launched a new push to protect same-sex marriage in federal law.

The House on Tuesday passed legislation that would protect same-sex marriage rights. Romney said he hasn't given consideration to the bill yet.

The Respect for Marriage Act would provide federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples. Senate Democrats are gauging GOP support for the measure, and the White House supports the bill.

The Respect for Marriage Act would provide federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples. Senate Democrats are gauging GOP support for the measure, and the White House supports the bill.

The House introduced a bill named The Respect for Marriage Act that aims to protect same-sex marriages for LGBTQIA couples.

The House will vote first on a bill that would protect marriage equality.

The House will also vote later in the week on legislation that would protect access to birth control and protect health-care providers from penalties for administering it. While still expressing their disappointment at the Supreme Court ruling, Democrats have predicted overturning abortion access could give them a lift with voters. A New York Times/Siena College poll of registered voters this month saw majority support for abortion access increase since September 2020, from 60 percent to 65 percent. Among registered voters, abortion ranked fifth behind crime, gun policies and the economy as the issues guiding their vote in November. House Republicans have not introduced any legislation that would bar access to birth control or in vitro fertilization.

The House has overwhelmingly approved a bill tp protect same-sex and interracial marriages.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested last month that previous rulings legalizing the right to contraception and marriage equality could be "demonstrably erroneous."

The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has prompted Congress to act to protect marriage equality.

The Texas senator has long been a marriage equality foe, but he's taking the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade to make his case.

The Justice was once an outlier for his “outre” legal views. Now, Jeannie Suk Gersen says, he is the heart of a conservative bloc that is only getting started.

For decades, Thomas has had a deeply pessimistic view of the country, rooted in his reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. After the Supreme Court’s recent opinions, his dystopia is becoming our reality.

The constitutional-law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen on a revolution in the Supreme Court. Plus, the comedian Hannah Gadsby denounces comedy, and Patricia Marx tries to relax.

In an interview, a political scientist discusses the Supreme Court’s misreadings of the history of gun regulation.

Thomas called the city's ban "highly suspect because it broadly prohibits common semiautomatic firearms used for lawful purposes."

A member of the House Jan. 6 committee says more witnesses are coming forward with new details on the Capitol insurrection following former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s devastating testimony last week against former President Donald Trump.

A member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot says more evidence is emerging that lends support to recent testimony that President Donald Trump wanted to join an angry mob that marched to the Capitol and rioted.

Thomas' concurring opinion in the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade urges the right wing toward more fascism.

The petition created by Move On, an advocacy group, has just over 840,000 signatures as of Saturday morning.

Abortion, guns, religion.

More than 700,000 people have signed a petition calling for Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The petition, made by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn, was created after the Supreme Court overturned Roe in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and while controversy swirls…

Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?

The Supreme Court's decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion is causing anxiety for people in same-sex marriages, particularly those with children.

Emails and phone calls from same-sex couples, worried about the legal status of their marriages and keeping their children, flooded attorney Sydney Duncan’s office within hours of the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. The ruling last week didn’t directly affect the 2015 decision that paved the way for same-sex marriage. “That has a lot of people scared and, I think, rightfully so,” said Duncan, who specializes in representing members of the LGBTQ community at the Magic City Legal Center in Birmingham.

In their 2022 rulings, an emboldened 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court rolled backed abortion rights, expanded the rights of gun owners and strengthened the role of religion in public life.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

In a sharply worded dissent Thursday, Justice Clarence Thomas expressed support for the plaintiffs’ debunked claims that all Covid vaccines are made with cells from “aborted children.”

Three conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, objected to their colleagues’ refusal to review the state’s requirement.

Former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again cry proved an easy between-the-lines moniker, but even that stood as a dog whistle – until now. “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a day before abolishing Roe. If the court overturned that law, Thomas’ marriage to Ginni, who is white, would face peril. “Even Chief Justice Taney recognized that public carry was a component of the right to keep and bear arms – a right free Blacks were often denied in antebellum America,” Thomas dared to assert. “I join the opinion of the court because it correctly holds that there is no constitutional right to abortion,” Thomas wrote.

The Supreme Court has declined to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that doesn't offer an exemption for religious reasons.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a North Carolina case that could dramatically change the way elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted.

In a 5-4 vote, the court ruled state agencies are not immune from private lawsuits.

Last week Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning Roe v. Wade’s nationwide protection for abortion.

A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims.

When asked whether the Texas legislature would pass a sodomy law, and if he would defend it and bring it to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested he would be comfortable supporting a law outlawing intimate same-sex relationships.

The Supreme Court has allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

The wife of Justice Clarence Thomas was asked to testify before the Jan. 6 committee over her correspondence about overturning the 2020 election.

"I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas," wrote a lawyer for the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

"I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas," wrote a lawyer for the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion with the repeal of Roe v. Wade that the Court should also "reconsider" birth control, gay marriage, and gay sex.

"I know the man. I know the people in his life. I know what he's like with everyone in our world, and everyone in the workplace," she said.

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Coral Ridge Ministries, a South Florida church that says its designation as a “hate group” is preventing it from collecting donations from Amazon's Smile program. The decision rejects a chance to make it easier for public figures to sue organizations for libel and defamation.

Vice President Kamala Harris says she worries other rights might be endangered after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark case legalizing abortion.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called for the elimination of the legislative filibuster “so that we can restore women’s fundamental rights” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, though Vice President Kamala Harris said she would not endorse such a move.

Clarence Thomas used the Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to abortion from Roe v. Wade to call for reversal of rulings on gay rights.

Howard Stern is ripping the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Roe v. Wade, saying the ruling might spur him to launch a White House bid. “I’m actually going to probably have to run for president now,” the SiriusXM host told “Howard Stern Show” listeners on Monday. The show marked Stern’s first public comments about Friday’s…

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

Pride parades kicked off in some of America’s biggest cities Sunday amid new fears about the potential erosion of freedoms won through decades of activism.

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

And so, the interminable wait after the leak of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade has come to an end — nearly two months in which abortion and all of its complexities have been have been hashed and rehashed, while the U.S. Supreme Court was silent.

When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists.

They are the most fiercely polarizing issues in American life: abortion and guns.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to ban abortion is stirring alarm among LGBTQ advocates.

The Supreme Court has stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion.

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday.

New York’s Democratic leaders aim to preserve as many restrictions as possible on carrying a handgun in public after a U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday struck down key portions of the state’s gun-licensing law.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, a major expansion of gun rights.

The House's Jan. 6 committee plans to continue its public hearings into July as its investigation of the Capitol riot deepens.

The Supreme Court is limiting the reach of a federal statute that requires stiff penalties for crimes involving a gun.

Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot say they may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence.

The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans.

The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection says the panel will ask Virginia Thomas for an interview.

The House committee investigating the Capitol riot plans to focus its hearing Thursday on the pressure that Donald Trump put on Vice President Mike Pence in a last-ditch and potentially illegal plan to stop Joe Biden’s election victory.

The Supreme Court says it was wrong to wade into a dispute involving a Trump-era immigration rule that the Biden administration has abandoned, so the justices have decided to dismiss the case.

Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.

The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time.

The Supreme Court is limiting when someone can sue for a violation of their rights by a federal official.

Curbing abortion rights and expanding the right to be armed in public have long been prizes of the conservative legal movement that the Supreme Court seems poised to award within the next month.

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme Court will soon issue its biggest gun ruling in more than a decade.

The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

Newly discovered emails show that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was more deeply involved in baseless efforts to overturn the 2020 election than previously known.