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Tweet Share Comment On Tuesday, as Republican lawmakers around the country advanced bills designed to prevent people of color...
Tweet Share Comment The United States judiciary does not have enough judges. This is not a partisan gripe but an objective...
Tweet Share Comment Justice Clarence Thomas is not backing down from the fight to legitimize Donald Trump’s claims that the...
Tweet Share Comment Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has dramatically altered the way it decides most cases—without...
Tweet Share Comment Late on Thursday night, the Supreme Court blocked Willie Smith’s execution in a surprising and somewhat...
Tweet Share Comment Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has opened a criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s...
Tweet Share Comment Late on Friday night, the Supreme Court blocked California’s public health ban on indoor religious...
Tweet Share Comment Since taking office, President Joe Biden has prioritized rooting out Trump holdovers who were installed to...
Tweet Share Comment On Tuesday, Joe Biden demanded the resignations of all 10 of Donald Trump’s appointees to the Federal...
Tweet Share Comment Last summer, the Supreme Court’s conservatives handed down a 5–4 decision against the Consumer Financial...
Tweet Share Comment On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, a Donald Trump appointee, issued a bizarre decision...
Tweet Share Comment President Joe Biden repealed Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service on Monday morning, signing...
Tweet Share Comment Twenty-three minutes after assuming the presidency, Joe Biden demanded the resignation of Peter Robb, the...
Tweet Share Comment On the first day of his presidency, Joe Biden commenced the most sweeping expansion of LGBTQ rights in...
Tweet Share Comment Many of Donald Trump’s most notorious appointees, including his cabinet secretaries, resigned shortly...
Tweet Share Comment In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump has carried on an unfortunate tradition: last-minute...
Tweet Share Comment On Friday night, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority bent a series of bedrock rules to ensure the...
Tweet Share Comment The Trump administration’s final attempt to sabotage the census is dead. On Friday, the Justice Department...
Tweet Share Comment The Capitol mob didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a response to the concerted attack on 2020’s election...
Tweet Share Comment In the wake of the 2016 election, the North Carolina GOP faced a problem: Republican Gov. Pat McCrory lost...
Tweet Share Comment On the morning of Jan. 6, Ginni Thomas—wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—endorsed the rally...
Vice President Mike Pence, who would become acting president if Donald Trump is sidelined under the 25th Amendment. Pool/Getty Images Following...
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images As the president spends his waning days in office spreading election conspiracy theories and inciting insurrection, his...
Judge Ralph Erickson. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo via State of North Dakota Courts. Welcome to the Trump Bench , a series in which Slate...
Supporters of Donald Trump protest the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in front of the Supreme Court on December 12, 2020. OLIVIER...
Outside the Supreme Court after the release of the Obergefell decision in 2015. Mark Wilson/Getty Images On Monday, the Supreme Court turned away...
Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images On Friday evening, the Supreme Court shot down an attempt by Texas to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election. Texas...
President Donald Trump walks out after speaking at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. Tasos...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Washington in 2016. Kevin Lamarque/File Photo/Reuters On Tuesday morning, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia testifies before a Senate Finance Committee. Leah Millis/Getty Images On Monday, the Trump administration finalized a...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham arrives for a judicial nomination hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill...
Neal Katyal testifies on behalf of now–Justice Neil Gorsuch. TASOS KATOPODIS/Getty Images On Tuesday, the Supreme Court confronted a seemingly...
Supporters of Donald Trump rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2020. OLIVIER DOULIERY/Getty Images Three weeks before he...
Amy Coney Barrett talks with Clarence Thomas during her ceremonial swearing-in ceremony at the White House. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images On Monday,...
Barbara Lagoa (R) speaks as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (L) looks on. Joe Raedle/Getty Images A federal appeals court blocked bans on LGBTQ...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham presides over the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ‘Breaking the News: Censorship,...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham presides over the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ‘Breaking the News: Censorship,...
North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley The Chief Justice Beasley Commission The North Carolina Supreme Court has confronted...
Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court’s budget. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Thursday night, Justice Sam Alito delivered the keynote...
Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett speak during a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony at the White House last month. Alex Wong/Getty Images Since the...
JABIN BOTSFORD/Getty Images The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 appears to have inflicted a permanent psychic wound on a large chunk of...
U.S. Attorney General William Barr departs his home in McLean, Virginia. Win McNamee/Getty Images In just two years, Attorney General William Barr...
Voters cast their ballots at the Staples Center on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Slate's Who Counts? series is made...
Early voting in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Mark Makela/Getty Images, Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty...
An election worker guides voters in cars at a mail ballot drop-off site at NRG Stadium on October 7, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Voters can also cast...
An election judge drops a ballot at a drive through drop-off for absentee ballots in Minneapolis. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Slate's Who...
Justice Neil Gorsuch Jay Godwin/LBJ Library/Flickr Slate's Who Counts? series is made possible by the support of Slate Plus members and...
Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court’s budget on March 07, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Slate's Who Counts? series is made...