Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice‚ she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land. Whether it was her lone dissent in a North Carolina voting rights case in 2016 (“the court’s conclusion … is a fiction”); her ingenious referencing of Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ James Baldwin and WEB DuBois in another 2016 dissent over...

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is promising that the Senate will “consider legislative options” to stamp out the practice known as judge shopping. The Judicial Conference of the United States issued guidelines last month aimed at ending the legal maneuver‚ in which plaintiffs strategically file cases in courts where they’re all but guaranteed to find a friendly judge. But on Monday‚ the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas — where conservatives have brought hot-button...

The company that underwrote Donald Trump’s $175 million appeal bond in New York state’s civil fraud suit is known for offering subprime auto loans — and owned by a billionaire supporter of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Don Hankey — the California-based businessman who made his $1.6 billion fortune from lending money to auto buyers with flawed credit history‚ per Forbes — came to Trump’s rescue on Monday three days before a court-imposed deadline. The multimillion-dollar...

Former President Trump railed against his New York civil fraud case and those involved‚ calling it a “fabricated election interference con job” just hours after he posted a $175 million bond in the case. In a lengthy post Monday night on Truth Social‚ Trump argued the judgment will harm New York and called for the disbarment of Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D)‚ who brought the suit against the former president‚ his business and former executives. “I’ve...

Don Hankey‚ the chairman and majority shareholder of Knight Specialty Insurance‚ told CNN on Tuesday that the deal to underwrite former President Donald Trump’s $175 million bond in New York came together quickly and that Trump posted all cash as collateral. “It’s what we do. I’m happy to do it. We would have done it for anybody else‚” Hankey said in a phone interview. “It was an easy transaction. It was put together very quickly.” Based in California‚ Knight Specialty Insurance...

The Daily Caller has retracted and removed an article falsely accusing the Biden administration of banning religious designs on Easter eggs submitted to a White House art contest. The retraction comes days after the right-wing media ecosystem ran wild with the story (alongside misleading claims about Transgender Day of Visibility)‚ claiming that it was further proof of President Joe Biden’s supposed war on Christianity. Reacting to a flyer sent out for the “Celebrating National Guard...

Despite an expanded gag order placed on him over his upcoming hush money trial‚ former President Donald Trump continues to rant on social media. “I just was informed that another corrupt New York Judge‚ Juan Merchan‚ GAGGED me so that I can not talk about the corruption and conflicts taking place in his courtroom with respect to a case that everyone‚ including the D.A.‚ felt should never have been brought‚” Trump posted on Truth Social early Tuesday morning. “They can talk about me‚ but I...

A Florida man was sentenced Monday to 14 months in prison for threatening to kill Chief Justice John Roberts last year. Neal Brij Sidhwaney‚ 43‚ of Fernandina Beach‚ Florida‚ pleaded guilty in December to transmitting an interstate threat to kill. He had faced up to five years in federal prison. Sidhwaney was also sentenced to three years of supervised release following his imprisonment. CNN previously reported that Sidhwaney called the Supreme Court last year on July 31 “and left an...

A new survey found that LGBTQ Americans are twice as likely to experience discrimination in their health care. The survey‚ conducted by KFF‚ noted that members of the LGBTQ community have historically faced disparities while receiving health care‚ including challenges to accessing mental and physical health care. “LGBT adults are also twice as likely as non-LGBT adults to report negative experiences while receiving health care in the last three years‚ including being treated unfairly or...

Four migrants have been arrested and charged with trying to cut through concertina wire installed along the Texas-Mexico border. The Texas Department of Public Safety announced the arrests in a post on X‚ which included video of the alleged act that took place Friday near Gate 36 in El Paso. “Destroying state property is a crime — those responsible will be arrested &; charged‚” the department said. The arrest comes after migrants tore down other razor fencing and rushed National...