True North is excited to announce Grave Injustice, an upcoming podcast explaining how the far-right captured #SCOTUS and the 2024 cases they will be ruling on, hosted by our executive director @TheLisaGraves in collaboration with COURIER.

NEW PODCAST ON DARK-MONEY JUDICIAL CORRUPTION!

Hosted by the wise and hilarious Lisa Graves. Don’t miss it!

This is a harsh tweet and I’m guessing some feel overstated by quite a bit. It is not. These judges are doing damaging things to our country on a weekly basis and their meddling into non-judicial politics is reprehensible. They are deeply reprehensible. I stand by that.

👋ProPublica Wins Nellie Bly Award for Supreme Court Coverage - well- deserved! (They pass this prize money under the table). propublica.org/atpropublica/p…

America is plagued by what Rebecca Jackson and I call 'judge-mandering'—zealous plaintiffs hand-picking like-minded district-court judges to shut down policies for the entire country. Our new The Economist piece explores efforts to quell it economist.com/united-states/…

Remember when John Roberts pretended to believe that what Trump repeatedly described as a 'Muslim ban' was not motivated by anti-Muslim animus

Indeed, please do.

“Originalism is the living constitutionalism of modern conservatism.” Jack Balkin

The U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous myth-making: The origins of originalism slate.com/podcasts/amicu…

Clear, fact-based reporting here, backed up by video and reporters who witnessed it.
Peaceful pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA was violently attacked by counter-protesters chanting pro-Israel slogans on Tuesday night. Police were then called in, and arrested the victims...…

What’s worse: The Democratic Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Cmte is asleep at the switch, with no apparent strategy to address this.

When will Senator Dick Durbin finally take seriously the existential threat to democracy posed by these corrupt, unaccountable Republican judges?

Would Cannon accept 'technical issues' in her courtroom as an excuse for a criminal defendant's flagrant lawbreaking? (Other than Trump, of course.)

George runs a powerful center at Princeton funded by dark money. Centers like George’s—especially those trading on elite brands like Princeton—legitimize and advance the extreme agendas of their anonymous backers.

Will Princeton University tell the public who’s funding this radical work?

You can’t tackle gun violence in America without taking on the corrupt, gun-obsessed Republican Supreme Court majority. Murphy should be doing a lot more on that front if he wants to be a real champion for gun safety.

The Alabama Supreme Court today denied a rehearing request on its IVF decision, which granted frozen embryos the status of unborn children under state law & shut down IVF procedures because of Alabama's personhood law. al.com/news/2024/05/a…

Corruption at SCOTUS has been highly publicized in recent years — but that scrutiny has been largely siloed away from coverage of its substantive deliberations and decisions.

Jamison Foser & Will Royce explain why it’s time to break out of those silos:
prospect.org/justice/2024-0…

Far-right power players are out there referring to SCOTUS as the “Leo Court.” Meanwhile, court commentators still seem to think there are, like, tea leaves left to read.

Z. Emerson 🍒 One more cause I could go all night — ever had Nancy’s Yogurt? You can thank the Dead. The family creamery was about to go out of business in 1972 when the Dead put on a benefit concert to save the business. The show happens to be one of the best they ever played, 8/27/72.

You cannot defeat an authoritarian threat by adopting or endorsing its tactics nor by befriending those who do.