Senate Judiciary Committee sends DC Circuit nominee to the floor The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Judge J. Michelle Childs for the influential federal appeals court in Washington. Roll Call · May 26, 2022
Eastern Standard Preview for May 19, 2022 From weeks trapped in a basement shelter in the devastated eastern Ukraine city of Mariupol to safety in Lexington: Valery Kaidanov on the odyssey of her 84-year old mother, Vera Lisen. | After inflation is taken into account, state employee wages have declined over a decade. An analysis of a… WEKU · May 16, 2022
Now they are blaming KBJ for SCOTUS leak If you thought Republican attacks on incoming Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson were over, you were wrong Salon · May 6, 2022
Michael Hiltzik: Why we need term limits for Supreme Court justices The Supreme Court's now-confirmed intention of overturning the half-century-old protection for abortion rights in Roe v. Wade is energizing the debate over how to rein in the court's extreme conservative slant. Los Angeles Times · May 6, 2022
Psaki to cede White House lectern to her history-making deputy, Karine Jean-Pierre WASHINGTON — Karine Jean-Pierre has been selected to be the next White House press secretary, becoming the first Black person and out gay woman to serve in that role. Los Angeles Times · May 5, 2022
The federal election winner will get a big opportunity to change the face of the High Court - will they take it? The leaked Roe v Wade draft opinion this week has shown us the power of the legal system when it comes to facilitating (or winding back) social change. The Conversation · May 5, 2022
Beyoncé is really grateful you didn't listen to that Renaissance leak “I can’t thank y’all enough for your love and protection,” she wrote. Mic · May 4, 2022
State supreme courts are starting to look more like America State supreme courts wield power over many areas of American life, from school funding to environmental protection, gun laws to voting. Even as the United States population has become more diverse, state high courts have been the domain of white judges, attorneys and staff. Tribune News Service · May 3, 2022
POINT: Why are Republicans so obsessed with gender issues? What makes a woman a woman? That’s the question Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed legislation that threatens doctors and nurses with up to 10 years in prison for aiding transgender young people in transitioning. Florida’s… Tribune News Service · Apr 28, 2022
Commentary: Only with listening can justice be applied properly Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has made history as the first Black woman confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Both her confirmation hearings and her history as a judge underscore a larger issue: Justice can’t exist without listening. Tribune News Service · Apr 28, 2022
Stephen L. Carter: Ketanji Brown Jackson won’t lose her seat if Breyer ‘unretires’ What happens to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson if Justice Stephen Breyer changes his mind and decides not to retire? The question and its variants keep coming up. After all, there’s no vacancy to be filled until Breyer actually steps down at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term. If… Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Says Her Faith Sustains Her But Won’t Impede Judgments On Supreme Court Senator Graham made religion and rulings on it a fiery focal point during confirmation hearings. Zenger · Apr 25, 2022
AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2022
What is it that compels people to obey the law? Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation as a justice of the US Supreme Court has been hailed as a breakthrough for black Americans and other minority communities, for women and mothers, for public defenders, and even for those who went to public school. But the biggest winner is the Supreme Court itself. Bangkok Post · Apr 20, 2022
Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2022 Biden signs Jackson’s Supreme Court commission early in unusual move WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed papers to appoint Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month even though she can’t begin work until Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer.
McClatchy Washington Bureau · Apr 18, 2022 Lindsey Graham and Joe Biden used to be close. Can they ever be friends again? President Joe Biden was acknowledging lawmakers he was supposed to thank at a White House bill signing when he came across the name on the teleprompter of his former friend and colleague Lindsey Graham.
Reason · Apr 15, 2022 May the President Prospectively Appoint a Supreme Court Justice to a Seat that Is Not Yet Vacant? (Updated) A newly released memo from the Office of Legal Counsel suggests the answer is "yes."
The Guardian - US · Apr 15, 2022 Republicans are dusting off a tried and true election strategy: hatemongering Male voters have been drifting right in record numbers – and Republicans are taking a viciously homophobic and sexist tack to appeal to them
Salon · Apr 14, 2022 Feinstein memory "rapidly deteriorating" Senators and ex-staffers say she sometimes "does not seem to fully recognize even longtime colleagues"
Tribune News Service · Apr 14, 2022 US courts of Western NC have had only white male judges for 150 years. Is that changing? This month, President Joe Biden and the U.S. Senate made Supreme Court history. Now it may be the Western District of North Carolina’s turn.
Tribune News Service · Apr 14, 2022 Michelle Deal-Zimmerman: It’s a slap in the face to believe violence protects Black women I still can’t figure out why Baltimore native Jada Pinkett Smith gives a flying foxtail on a Friday about what a comedian says about her beautiful bald head.
Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 13, 2022 Biden’s trailblazing federal judicial picks: Asian American, Hispanic nominees for Chicago spots Sens. Durbin and Duckworth said John Lee and Nancy Maldonado will bring “demographic and professional diversity that will strengthen our federal bench.”
The Guardian - US · Apr 13, 2022 Extremists like Marjorie Taylor Greene are the future of the Republican party It’s impossible to understand American politics without grappling in earnest with why Greene’s extremism is widely seen as justified on the right
Tribune News Service · Apr 13, 2022 Rekha Basu: Chuck Grassley had a chance to restore bipartisan confidence. He passed I feel stupid for having dared to hope Sen. Chuck Grassley would make the leap to vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson getting on the Supreme Court. Thankfully, she made it through without the support of Iowa's senior senator. But the victory could have been sweeter, the moment more memorable,…
The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2022 Biden’s sister calls Lindsey Graham ‘sycophant in chief’ in new book Biden and the South Carolina Republican were longtime friends.