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President Joe Biden will nominate Micah W.J. Smith, assistant U.S. attorney for Hawaii since 2018, as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, the White House has announced.

The federal judiciary is a cesspool of partisanship, and now it’s being asked to oversee some of the most politically fraught criminal trials in American history.

In an important piece today that's worth reading and remembering, the New York Times' Linda Greenhouse profiles Samuel Alito--beginning his tenth year on the Supreme Court--as the true conservative titan of the U.S. Supreme Court, more so than the unreliable Roberts and Kennedy, the erratic Scalia or the eccentric Thomas. [T]o the political right, and…

Today is Sunday, July 23, the 204th day of 2023. There are 161 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, July 23, the 204th day of 2023. There are 161 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, July 23, the 204th day of 2023. There are 161 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 23, 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in […]

The Supreme Court justice’s buckraking hardly compares to that of her conservative colleagues. But it still says a lot about how much Washington has changed.

Whoever came up with the axiom “It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, but how you play the game” probably didn’t lose very often.

The call for term limits for Supreme Court justices is no more legitimate today than it was before and rests on false premises.

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.