Topic: judicial branch

A court building is seen behind a crowd control barrier ahead of then-former President Donald Trump's arrival to answer charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, in Washington, United States on August 3, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

It's never been scarier to be a judge

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia within a John Trumbell painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Originalism": White supremacy in robes

Paul Rosenberg
Television microphones stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Right-wing leak hunt has human costs

Kate Reder Sheikh
Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. Seated from left: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

SCOTUS commission stuck in neutral

Aaron Belkin
Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump launches attack on RBG, Sotomayor

Igor Derysh
Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Can Democrats take back the courts?

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Republicans have a fantasy Constitution

Paul Rosenberg
Clarence Thomas; Donald Trump; George W. Bush (AP/Getty)

Party of bad faith: GOP outdoes itself

Paul Rosenberg
Brett Kavanaugh; Sheldon Whitehouse (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Salon)

Does Kavanaugh have a gambling problem?

Matthew Rozsa
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Trump's judicial picks: Bad to worse

Amanda Marcotte
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Trump's Supreme Court

Michael Nelson, Eric Plutzer, Michael Berkman - The Conversation
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After the next big attack

Émile P. Torres
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Trump's constitutional crisis

Paul Rosenberg
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson/AP/Evan Vucci/Photo montage by Salon)

trump's judicial irony

Matthew Rozsa
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The right's judicial hypocrisy

Heather Digby Parton