And it should probably be Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is far more qualified than Clarence Thomas was when he was nominated. It’s time to fight.

The Supreme Court justice is retiring in time for the Democrats to replace him with a much younger judge: a Black woman, if Biden keeps his campaign promise.

Experts and politicians agree: The measure is in desperate need of reform, in order to avoid a repeat of 2020 in 2024.

Conservative legal activists looking to roll back the legal remedies for historical racial discrimination couldn’t ask for a more accommodating high court.

The Supreme Court justice refuses to recuse himself from cases in which his right-wing activist wife, Ginni, has a clear interest. The Democrats should punish him for it.

Neil Gorsuch’s recent invocation of the “major questions doctrine” has ominous implications for anyone not keen on watching the government drown in dysfunction.

Gavin Newsom’s refusal to let Kennedy’s 77-year-old killer die at home after a half-century behind bars is nothing more than a cynical political stunt.

The court did not foreclose robust new workplace vaccination standards, nor bless the radical right’s blueprint for annihilating the “administrative state.”

The high court struck down OSHA’s testing mandate but left a vaccine requirement for health care workers in place.

The vice president has constitutional rights, too.

Fixing the obscure law that governs the way Electoral College votes are counted won’t save democracy, but it could keep things from getting much worse.

Long sold as an island of stability in a sea of chaos, the nation has collapsed into misrule, requiring swift action against its kleptocratic rulers.

Long after it was an obvious need, the president is asking Democrats in the upper house of Congress to change their rules.

Judges have been relatively merciful in punishing the first tranche of Capitol rioters, with good reason.

The typically circumspect attorney general used the January 6 anniversary to reassure his doubters that he is pursuing the Capitol riot perpetrators with zeal.

The chief justice’s veiled end-of-year remarks seem to indicate that if the high court cannot reform itself, reform will be forced upon it.

The Supreme Court on Friday will consider two Biden administration rules to protect workers from the virus. Will the conservative justices buy a disingenuous reading of the word “necessary”?

The country we’ll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days’ time.

Biden ended 2021 advancing some much needed measures to battle foreign kleptocrats. Next year, he can win the war.

The first year of Biden’s presidency began with ambitious plans, and it’s ending with a whimper. Here’s what to expect—and hope for—in 2022.