Senators successfully blocked a judicial nominee to a district court on Thursday after a recommendation from her to transfer a biological male that identifies as a transgender woman to a prison that housed biological women, despite a conviction on sexual offenses. Judge Sarah Netburn’s nomination was prevented from advancing after Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., voted...
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Alaska has resigned after investigators determined he created a hostile work environment, engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a former law clerk and lied about it to his colleagues. Joshua Kindred resigned from his post as a U.S. District Court judge for Alaska effective Monday after serving just four...
After her fourth term on the bench, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is asserting her voice and following in the footsteps of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pioneer of originalism on the high court and her former boss. Barrett, appointed by President Donald Trump in October 2020 to fill the seat of...
In what some saw as anticlimactic,theSupremeCourt last Monday declined to decide whether Texas and Florida laws regulating social media moderation policies violatetheFirst Amendment. Butthebignews fromthese consolidated cases was whatthecourtdid say. Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion inMoody v. NetChoice(decided withNetChoice v. Paxton), made clear thattheFirst Amendment “does not go on leave when social media are involved.”...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s new liberal majority reversed a ruling that banned most ballot drop boxes, opening the door for election officials to reinstate their use in the swing state before November. In July 2022, the state Supreme Court, then under a conservative majority, held that absentee ballot drop boxes, which were used widely during...
