The Supreme Court has denied a request from Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to block the Jan. 6 committee from accessing her phone records as part of their investigation, according to a brief decision released Monday. In the short decision, the court clarified that Justices Clarence Thomas and Sammuel Alito …
Read More »Cheri Beasley Is Running for More Than a Senate Seat In North Carolina
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA —It’s a marvel Cheri Beasley made it here at all, to this drafty barn, off of a winding country road in rural North Carolina. Her handlers had the wrong address, the cell service was spotty, the two-lane road you take to get here was shut down in …
Read More »Clarence Thomas Blocks Lindsey Graham's Election Meddling Testimony … For Now
Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas has temporarily halted an order compelling Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to testify before an Atlanta grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. Graham was subpoenaed in July along with several other figures tied to the …
Read More »Crowd Cheers and Laughs When Trump Threatens Journalists With Prison Rape
During his administration, former President Donald Trump referred 334 classified leaks for criminal investigation, setting a record. And at his rally Saturday night, he said that the journalists who published the Supreme Court‘s preliminary decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would reveal their sources under threat of rape in prison. …
Read More »Supreme Court Trump Personally Stocked Rejects His Effort to Stymie Mar-a-Lago Probe
The Supreme Court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to prevent the Justice Department from reviewing classified documents seized from hisMar-a-Lago residence. “The application to vacate the stay entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on September 21, 2022, presented to Justice Thomas …
Read More »Trump Tries to Get Supreme Court to Bail Him Out of Mar-a-Lago Docs Mess
Former President Donald Trump is petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn a court ruling granting the Department of Justice access to classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence. Trump filed an emergency request with the court on Tuesday, arguing that the 11th Circuit Court didn’t have the authority to reverse …
Read More »Billy Eichner Drags Clarence Thomas and 'All the Homophobes on the Supreme Court' at 2022 VMAs
Ooooh, Billy Eichner just @’d the Supreme Court. While presenting an award at the 2022 VMAs on Sunday night, Eichner took the opportunity to promote his upcoming film Bros — the gay rom-com he wrote and stars in — by namedropping Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and advocating for more …
Read More »Rep. Glenn Thompson Voted Against Same-Sex Marriage, Then Attended His Gay Son's Wedding
While attending his son’s same-sex wedding, Republican representative Glenn Thompson shared how “blessed” he felt to have “a new son enter the family.” But just days before the happy occasion, Thompson voted against a House bill that would codify the right to same-sex marriage into federal law. Last week, 157 …
Read More »House Passes Bill to Protect Marriage Equality
The Democrat-led House voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act bill on Tuesday, which would recognize same-sex marriages at the federal level. The legislation would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. The latter was struck down …
Read More »SCOTUS Justices 'Prayed With' Her — Then Cited Her Bosses to End Roe
At an evangelical victory party in front of the Supreme Court to celebrate the downfall of Roe v. Wade last week, a prominent Capitol Hill religious leader was caught on a hot mic making a bombshell claim: that she prays with sitting justices inside the high court. “We’re the only …
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