Reporting and legal analysis on the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and democracy writ large.
Daily Kos
Day #2: First the senators lied, then Kavanaugh did
There’s unprecedented public opposition to confirming Trump’s second SCOTUS pick
Justice Department conscripts prosecutors to review Kavanaugh’s million-page-plus record
Slate
Costa Rica’s Election of a Pro-Gay President Will Help Bring Marriage Equality to All of Latin America
Is Jeff Sessions ready to take on California? New suit aimed at sanctuary laws will test Trump’s DOJ
Sessions kills DOJ’s access to justice initiative in another blow to low-income Americans
Pacific Standard
The Solution to Trump’s Nuclear Obsession
Sessions’s latest instruction to DOJ: Seek the death penalty
Sessions picks 14 men, 3 women to serve as interim U.S. attorneys
The best legal (and illegal) tweets of 2017
Gorsuch 2020?
Trump and DeVos Are Preparing a Historic Rollback on Discrimination Law
Yale Law Journal
New Sheriff, Old Problems: Advancing Access to Justice Under the Trump Administration
Rewire
Trump Administration’s Claims of DACA Being Unconstitutional Have No Substance
How Grassley’s Dirty Tricks Will Help the GOP Stack the Courts
Democracy Journal
The House That Ruth Built
A Guide to Treason 2.0
A Moment of Silence for Antonin Scalia
NPR
With Judges Overriding Death Penalty Cases, Alabama Is An Outlier
Supreme Court: Inherited IRAs Not Protected From Bankruptcy