The New York Times reports, Virginia Thomas Agrees to Interview With Jan. 6 Panel: Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative activist who pushed to overturn the 2020 election, has agreed to sit for an interview with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The development could … Read more
The Senate is expected to “start the process” for considering a bill to protect same-sex marriage on the federal level this week, marking the culmination of a months-long bipartisan effort by Democrats and some Republicans to codify marriage equality after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Hill reports, This week: Senate to move … Read more
Note: A group photo with new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has not yet been published. The 2022-23 Supreme Court term begins the first Monday in October. The most consequential case on the court’s docket is ostensibly a redistricting case from North Carolina, Moore v. Harper, but it is so much more than this. The MAGA/QAnon … Read more
The Huffington Post reports, New Bill Would Make It Easier For Congress To Fight Back Against Hard-Right Supreme Court: Democrats introduced legislation Thursday that would enable a simple majority in Congress to override Supreme Court decisions like those that overturned the right to an abortion and gutted the government’s ability to regulate carbon emissions. The … Read more
The hog castrator to the world, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), has blocked the House bill to protect women’s access to birth control in the anti-democratic dysfunctional Senate. Huffington Post reports, GOP Sen. Joni Ernst Blocks Bill Protecting Right To Birth Control: Democratic legislation that would protect the right to birth control and other contraceptives was … Read more