Lisa Graves

The chief justice has seemingly worn blinders for life.

One of the first major decisions of the Supreme Court under John Roberts’s tenure as Chief Justice came in 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart, a landmark case that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. But Roberts had been on the (undisclosed) record as critical of Roe v. Wade since at least 1981. That year, when he was working as an advisor to the attorney general and shaping legal policy at the very top of the Justice Department, he wrote favorably that the leading voices on the Right “r

The co-chairman of the Federalist Society has established a network of attorneys general who will do it for him.

Roberts launched his legal career targeting the Voting Rights Act.

It is key to the longtime objectives supported by and benefiting the billionaires who funded the court-capture machine.

A proposed amendment to the state constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity.

A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”…

The Supreme Court effectively blocked the judiciary’s ability to stop Trump from implementing a huge range of policies.

There is already an ongoing hate crime investigation into a death threat against the Democratic mayoral nominee.

Palantir is reportedly building a mega-database of Americans’ personal information for the Trump administration.

DOGE has already made progress in assembling the personal details of hundreds of millions of individuals.

Leonard Leo, the right-wing operative who picked Trump’s Supreme Court appointees, has long been the president’s ally.

It allows individuals to avoid paying capital gains tax as a reward for funneling public funds into private schools.

With Tucker Carlson back in the news for platforming Nazi propaganda, True North is reprising an updated excerpt of my previous backgrounder on Carlson, who has a history of anti-immigrant and white supremacist comments. Here are five more facts…

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Over the past eighteen months, in election after election, Americans across political parties have rebuked the Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court for reversing Roe v. Wade and overturning Constitutional protections for abortion access.…

On a hot July day in Tampa at the 2022 Moms for Liberty Summit, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told the crowd that the US Department of Education should be abolished. This claim — that the very department she recently led should not exist —…

President Joe Biden is slated to announce Wednesday during his fundraising trip to Los Angeles that his administration will cancel another $1.2 billion in student loan debt — this time for about 153,000 borrowers. All of them have been approved for…

Contingent professors scored a victory January 3 when they got New York University to agree to a union election this semester, and to remain neutral during the process. The election is scheduled for February 27 and 28. If they vote yes, Contract…

Doubts swirled from the start. After Cynthia King’s baby Wiley Muir died suddenly at a home-based day care in Honolulu, she fixated on the things that seemed off. The medical examiner said he died of pneumonia, but Wiley hadn’t been sick that…