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Remembering the first time a partisan Senate minority blocked a judicial nomination that enjoyed majority support.

In recent years, all nine sitting justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have been the subject of reports calling their ethics into question.

No sooner had Donald Trump finally been fingerprinted and booked than we Americans were reminded of that other V.I.P. scofflaw who, by his repeat offenses, has long mocked our national conceit that no person is above the law.

Campaign Legal Center says that the ethics issue has “historic implications far beyond one Supreme Court justice”

Hayden Thorne breaks down the latest Clarence Thomas scandal and the problem of integrity in American politics

On Thursday, ProPublica revealed that a right-wing billionaire has secretly funded a lavish lifestyle for Justice Clarence Thomas. Then on Friday, a federal judge in Texas tried to block the use around the country of mifepristone, the medication used in half of all abortions. These two dramatic twists are part…

8/26/1964: Lyndon B. Johnson nominated as Democratic candidate for president. He would make two appointments to the Supreme Court: Justices Abe Fortas and Thurgood Marshall.

On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren.

A history lesson for Democrats: Here's how Nixon pushed the Supreme Court hard right — it's time to fight back