Tag Archives: supreme-court

America’s wealthiest families held an astounding $8.5 trillion in untaxed profits in 2022. According to a report from the nonprofit Americans for Tax Fairness, which analyzed Federal Reserve data, “one in every six dollars (18 percent of the nation’s unrealized gains is held by these roughly 64,000 ultra-wealthy households, who …

The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from Colorado‘s ballot over his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Oral arguments have been scheduled in the coming weeks and the justices acknowledged the need …

Evangelical lawyer Jay Sekulow, who defended Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, is still cashing in on the former president’s misdeeds. As states consider whether to disqualify Trump from their ballots for engaging in insurrection, Sekulow and his family have been working furiously to raise money for their campaign …

Now that Colorado and Maine have disqualified Donald Trump from their 2024 ballots, citing the 14th Amendment, the case will most likely go to the Supreme Court. But Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday that Justice Clarence Thomas “absolutely should recuse himself” from these upcoming rulings because of his wife’s involvement …

Close allies of Donald Trump have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court decision blocking the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner from the state’s Republican primary ballot. The petition was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative nonprofit, on behalf of …

The Supreme Court has denied a petition from Special Counsel Jack Smith to fast-track a ruling on whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for any crimes he committed while in office. The single-sentence rejection, released on Friday, contained no explanation of the court’s reasoning. The high …

Justice Clarence Thomas once told a member of Congress that “one or more justices will leave [the court] soon” if lawmakers did not raise their salaries, ProPublica reports. At the time, Thomas was taking on large amounts of debt to finance his lifestyle, and would soon begin cultivating financially beneficial …

Dawn Porter looks for stories of people who made history without asking. By following congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis in John Lewis: Good Trouble, or President Obama’s White House photographer Pete Souza in The Way I See It, she says she hopes to shade in between the lines …

The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, the pregnant mother who sought permission to obtain an emergency abortion,on Monday. “These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s seven-page ruling read. The court found that Cox’s doctor, Dr. …

My first act toward shedding myself of fucks to give was sharing my abortion story on Comedy Central back in 1992. That was the first and last time I was asked to do that on television. That’s when I learned that corporate media, no matter how open-minded, is not a …