Tag: Supreme Court

In a 4-4 decision, the Supreme Court has issued a deadlocked ruling on a California law requiring non-union members to pay union dues. The deadlock...

Kansas Senator Jerry Moran is the latest Republican to call bullshit on his party's opposition to Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Leaving Mitch McConnell...

A rare outbreak of journalism from Fox News Channel on Sunday may have proven to be the undoing of Mitch McConnell. He all but...

Last week, Republican Congressman Steve King admitted what nearly everyone without red-tinted glasses already knows--the Senate Republicans' refusal to even consider anyone President Obama nominates...

Memo to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch: I would like to introduce you to the man who just made you look like the obstructionist jackass...

It's been a vicious battle. With the upcoming presidential election and possibility of a new, liberal Supreme Court Justice, the GOP has been fighting...

Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, and the Senate Republicans would like you to believe precedent requires them to not even give a hearing to anyone President Obama...

First we had Republicans saying there was no need for President Obama to nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...

So, no surprise here! This study shows that many of the abortion restrictions that Republican lawmakers keep passing are based on false information and even...

The female members of the U.S. Supreme Court--Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor--were highly critical of a Texas law which would close...

We already knew that Justice Clarence Thomas was an embarrassment. But he proved it in a big way on Monday. After keeping his mouth closed when...

Pat Robertson may be getting on in years; he's turning 86 next month. Yet, any Republican candidate who has any promises of winning over the...

Yesterday, Mitch McConnell declared that he would absolutely, positively not allow hearings for anyone President Obama puts forward to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. He apparently made...

The Senate Republicans announced just before the close of business on Tuesday night that if President Obama nominates a replacement for the late Supreme...

We've all heard some incredibly bizarre conspiracy theories in the week since Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in his room at a Texas...

It's bad enough our current era throws enough chum to conspiracy theorists that the political waters of the early 21st century look like a...

When I ran across a posting on CNN.com from David Axelrod earlier today saying that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had told...

While nearly every Republican on the face of the earth is now lining up in opposition to President Obama naming a replacement for the...

This may the best thing I've seen since the debate began on who President Obama should nominate to replace the late Antonin Scalia: A...

Within literally hours of the announcement that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had died on a hunting trip in Texas, the Republicans in the...