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"You're flying in the face of 250 years of history." Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan sounded extremely sceptical of during the oral arguments in a case that could dismantle consumer protections on payday lending practices.
The New York Times once said Tucker Carlson’s program “may be the most racist show in the history of cable news.” The Fox News host’s latest comments on Black female judges bolster the claim.
Republicans will no longer be able to routinely delay votes on the president’s court picks if Democrats hold a 51-49 majority.
When we talk about the judicial system, the Supreme Court gets all of the attention. But the Trump administration has been quietly pushing through dozens of Circuit Court judges, many of whom are extremely conservative and some that have even been rated as “Unqualified” by the American Bar Association. So who are these judges and what’s so important about circuit courts?
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
There's already been a 43% increase in the number of openly lesbian federal judges on his watch. Keep going, sir!
Ted Cruz delivered a whopper with the claim that Republicans never rigged the courts when they controlled the White House and the Senate. (Correction: An earlier version said that Ted Cruz lied about court packing, but the dishonesty lies in the claim that Republicans never "rigged the game." Republicans blocked Obama nominees from Senate confirmation in his final years in office, and displayed a blatant double standard in blocking Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination in 2016 but quickly confirming Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.)
President Joe Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would become the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.
Six months into his presidency, Biden is already responsible for three of the 11 Black women ever confirmed as federal appeals court judges.
Judge Robin Ransom made history in being selected to serve on the state’s highest court.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) delivered a whopper with the claim that Republicans never rigged the courts when they controlled the White House and the Senate. (Correction: An earlier version said that Ted Cruz lied about court packing, but the dishonesty lies in the claim that Republicans never "rigged the game." Republicans blocked Obama nominees from Senate confirmation in his final years in office, and displayed a blatant double standard in blocking Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination in 2016 but quickly confirming Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.)
