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The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, putting Congress one step closer to ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.

In arguments in two New York public-corruption cases, justices say some efforts to influence decisions are equivalent to lobbying, and shouldn't be prosecuted.

Co-host Ana Navarro demanded Chief Justice Roberts set guidelines for when justices need to recuse themselves from Supreme Court Cases during "The View."

Confidence in the institution has collapsed as it acquires the same partisan taint as the other branches of government.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a man who contains multitudes, apparently. McConnell voted to block the Respect for Marriage Act on Wednesday—a bill that protects some rights for same-sex and interracial married couples—despite being in an interracial marriage, himself. McConnell is married to former President Trump’s Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, the first Asian American woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.

The US Congress has moved a step closer to approving proposed legislation codifying the federal government’s embrace of same-sex marriage. The right to such unions is the law of the land throughout the US today but only because of a 2015 Supreme Court decision. And civil rights advocates fear that ruling is in danger of being reversed by today’s more conservative panel of justices. Should that happen, the proposed new law in Congress would maintain some of the rights of same-sex couples but woul

Democrats and Republicans advanced a bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, clearing a major hurdle towards final passage.

Among faith leaders and denominations across the U.S., there are sharp differences over the bill advancing in the Senate that would protect same-sex and interracial marriages in federal law.

The Respect for Marriage Act would enshrine marriage equality into federal law. Democrats have warned that same-sex marriage and other rights could be at risk after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages has crossed a major Senate hurdle, putting Congress on track to take the historic step of ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.

The Respect for Marriage Act would enshrine marriage equality into federal law and was negotiated among a bipartisan group of senators.

The Supreme Court conservative indicated in an unsigned dissent he would not have allowed a subpoena involving Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to go forward.

Control of the House remains undecided, while the Senate race in Georgia will go to a runoff Dec. 6.

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is among a group of 59 influential conservative power brokers who signed an open letter pressing Republican leaders in the House and Senate to delay their internal conference leadership elections. “The Republican Party needs leaders who will confidently and skillfully present a persuasive coherent vision…

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to get phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party.

Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh were honored at the conservative Federalist Society's gala on Thursday night.

It’s clear that what’s at stake isn’t a vision of social and racial justice that would ameliorate inequalities for a broad swath of people but, rather, a fight for spots in the élite ranks of society.

The Supreme Court will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.

The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has.

Lawyers who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election regarded an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a “key” to their success.

An email sent on Dec. 31, 2020, one lawyer argued that the Supreme Court justice would “end up being key" to asking the high court to overturn then-President-elect Joe Biden’s win in contested states.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony in a Georgia investigation of possible illegal interference in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump and his allies in the state.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a temporary hold on Sen. Lindsey Graham's testimony in a Georgia investigation of possible illegal interference in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump and his allies in the state. The court left no legal impediments in the way of Graham's appearance before a special grand jury, now scheduled for Nov. 17. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had told the justices that “the delay resulting from a stay would be unavoidably harmful” to the grand jury investigation.

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas asked a lawyer representing North Carolina for a definition of "diversity" and its benefits to education.

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments that will likely result in its overturning of affirmative action in education. The plaintiffs allege that race-conscious school admissions are a form of discrimination against White and Asian students. It’s bad! But there are actually two separate arguments today about the constitutionality about affirmative action, because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from one due to a potential conflict of interest. Justice Clarence Thomas is seein

A conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to be open to the idea of ending the use of race, or affirmative action, in college admissions.

What to know as you follow oral arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education.

The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible illegal election interference in the 2020 election has urged the Supreme Court not to stand in the way of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony to a grand jury.

It does not matter whether Thomas imposed or denied Sen. Lindsey Graham’s desired stay of a Georgia subpoena; he wasn’t supposed to rule at all.

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Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily shielded Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) from testifying about his phone calls to Georgia election officials.

Fulton County district attorney has until Thursday to tell the high court why Graham should have to answer the grand jury's questions.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has temporarily blocked Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony to a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state.

Justice Clarence Thomas Monday put at least a temporary hold on an order that Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) appeared before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible attempts by President Donald Trump and his allies to disrupt the state’s 2020 presidential election.

A Georgia grand jury investigating possible criminal interference in the 2020 election by Donald Trump and his allies had subpoeaned Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Sen. Lindsey Graham has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a lower court ordered him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a lower court ordered him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state. Thomas has previously come under scrutiny for his vote in a different Trump documents case, in which he was the only member of the court to vote against allowing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to obtain Trump records held by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday said that fellow Justice Clarence Thomas “cares about legal issues differently than me,” adding that she thinks “not everyone” can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Sotomayor, speaking at Chicago’s Roosevelt University praised her colleague and said that he “cares about people.” “He cares about legal issues differently…

In a copyright case, the Justices revealed their own anxieties about interpreting precedents.

MSNBC host Tiffany Cross coined a vulgar nickname for Justice Clarence Thomas based on Anita Hill's allegations against him: "Justice Pubic Hair on My Coke Can."

Over eight oral arguments, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dominated questioning and commentary, speaking twice as much as her next most loquacious colleague.

The Justice Department filed a motion requesting that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals “end” Special Master Raymond Dearie’s independent review of records seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago.

Trump asked the Supreme Court to jump intro a thorny legal dispute over roughly 100 classified documents seized by the FBI at his Mar-a-Lago club.

The House Jan. 6 committee is planning to wind down public hearings without receiving testimony from former President Donald Trump or his top associates.

The House Jan. 6 committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump for his testimony about the 2021 Capitol attack.

The House committee is investigating the January 6 Capitol riot as it prepares for its 9th hearing on Thursday.

The court is evaluating whether Andy Warhol violated copyright law by basing his art on an image of Prince used without the photographer’s permission.

Justice Clarence Thomas revealed during oral arguments he was a Prince fan in the 1980s.

Andy Warhol and Prince held center stage in a copyright case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that veered from Cheerios and “Mona Lisa” analogies to Justice Clarence Thomas’ enthusiasm for the “Purple Rain” showman.

Andy Warhol's Prince series is in the crosshairs of Supreme Court oral arguments debating the nature of what qualifies as "transformative art" under the First Amendment.

Supreme Court considers whether an artist, movie maker or advertiser can freely use a copyrighted work by claiming they transformed the original.

Since the last hearing, the panel has continued to bring in witnesses and people involved in the effort to keep President Trump in office.

Justice Clarence Thomas revealed during oral arguments he was a Prince fan in the 1980s.

The Jan. 6 panel recently interviewed the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as part of the probe of the pro-Trump riot.

Journalists often have to be friendly to sources to get information.

Ketanji Brown Jackson said before the Supreme Court's term began that she was “ready to work.”.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was “ready to work.” For now, Jackson's approach seems less like Justice Clarence Thomas, who once went 10 years without asking a question, and more like Justice Neil Gorsuch, who in his first year was one of the more active questioners. “I can’t think of a time where you’ve seen a junior justice take hold of the arguments” to the same extent, Feldman said using the court’s shorthand title for the newest justice.

The Supreme Court’s nine members have posed for their first formal group photo following the addition of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

A hearing scheduled for Sept. 28 was postponed because of Hurricane Ian.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has scheduled its next hearing for Oct. 13.

By Lauren Sue Daily Kos StaffNewly-minted Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will join the court—the first Black woman to do so—on Monday when the new court term begins. Holding on to hope is no small feat, though a necessary one, I am reminded by Jackson’s investiture ceremony on Friday. “It was actually the fact that the old justice was no longer there.”Jackson is filling a seat vacated when Breyer retired. I believe in the power of a Black mother driven by a sense of duty and dedication. In the words of President Joe Biden, who attended Jackson’s investiture ceremony: “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has already brought uncompromising integrity, a strong moral compass, and courage to the Supreme Court.”

Former President Trump’s legal team has elevated its legal battle over documents seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago to the Supreme Court.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate.

Denver Riggleman spent 8 months as an adviser to the Congressional committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot. Now he's written a book about his experience — called, "The Breach."

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at the White House on Oct. 26, 2020. Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty Images)With the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new session on Oct. 3, 2022, Clarence Thomas is arguably the most powerful justice on the nation’s highest court. In 1991, after Thomas became an associate justice and only the second African American to do so, his power was improbable to almost everyone except him and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas. He received U.S.

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights.

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy.

Investiture ceremony marks the first time that Jackson, the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, has taken her place on the bench.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

During a nearly five-hour interview with the committee investigating the insurrection at the Capitol, the conservative activist reiterated the debunked claims of election fraud, according to Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.).

Her lawyer said Thomas was "happy to cooperate with the Committee to clear up the misconceptions about her activities surrounding the 2020 elections."

Thomas, a Republican activist, was in touch with an attorney pushing an effort to overturn the 2020 election results. The panel is wrapping up its probe and will issue a report later this year.

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has stood by the false claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent during an interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.

In the whistle-stop lead-up to the release of “Bros,” Eichner has worked tirelessly to whip audiences into a frenzy for a film unlike any Hollywood has before produced.

The Supreme Court doesn’t appear to have found the person who leaked a draft of the court’s major abortion decision last spring.

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, conservative activist Virginia Thomas, has agreed to participate in a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Democrats are punting a vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages until after the November midterm elections, a blow for the legislation that comes days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to put the Senate on the record on the issue “in the coming weeks.”.

A compilation of radio commentary by the late Rush Limbaugh, from his early years on the air to his decades as a leading voice in conservative politics, will be published Oct. 25.

The House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection by the end of the year.

Chief Justice John Roberts is defending the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote on legislation to protect same-sex marriage “in the coming weeks” as a bipartisan group backing the bill is tweaking it to gain Republican support.

Strict, anti-abortion Republicans running in competitive House, Senate and governor’s races in key battleground states are trying to distance themselves from their past statements and positions.

The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas contacted at least two Wisconsin state lawmakers urging them to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in 2020 in the tightly contested state.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.”.

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.

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

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

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.