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A group of congressional Democrats asked a billionaire real estate developer Monday to get specific about big-ticket gifts he has given Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as lawmakers investigate the jurist’s ethical conduct. Read more»

Ethical concerns about Justice Clarence Thomas remained center stage as new reporting revealed that Leonard Leo, a conservative judicial activist and longtime top member of the conservative Federalist Society, paid Clarence's wife Ginni tens of thousands of dollars. Read more»

Billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow paid the tuition at a private boarding school for the teenage grandnephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas - payments Thomas did not report on his annual financial disclosures. Read more»

Partisan tensions flared during a Senate hearing as Democrats pushed for ethics reform at the U.S. Supreme Court, while Republicans contend that the latest ballyhoo about ethics is rooted in opposition to the court's recent conservative rulings. Read more»

Chief Justice John Roberts declined to testify before Congress over ethical concerns relating to Supreme Court justices in the wake of reporting on potential violations of disclosure requirements by Justice Clarence Thomas. Read more»

The Supreme Court on Friday stopped new restrictions on mifepristone from going into effect and limiting access to the procedure nationwide, a pause on lower court rulings restricting the use of the popular abortion pill that will stay in place while the appeal proceeds. Read more»

Justice Clarence Thomas spent the last decade ignoring his duty to disclose that he made a six-figure property sale to Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, according to new reporting Thursday that compounds calls for the conservative justice to face an ethics inquiry. Read more»

For more than two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish vacations, virtually every year - including on a private jet and a superyacht - without disclosing them, a failure that appears to violate a disclosure law passed after Watergate. Read more»

Same-sex and interracial couples had many of their marriage rights codified Tuesday when President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan marriage equality bill during a ceremony attended by thousands outside the White House. Read more»

The U.S. Senate approved legislation Tuesday that would enshrine protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, codifying many of the rights that would disappear if the Supreme Court were to overturn those decisions the way it overturned the nationwide right to an abortion. Read more»

Former President Trump asked the Supreme Court to allow review by an independent party of classified documents seized from his Florida home - an appeal that contests a unanimous ruling that kept classified documents out of reach from a special master appointed in the case. Read more»

The U.S. Senate won’t vote on legislation to secure marriage equality for millions of Americans until after the midterm elections after a drive to get at least 10 GOP senators to support the bill appears to have fallen short. Read more»

While no state has so far banned forms of contraception, the threat appears very real, and talking points by Republicans who oppose abortion — saying there’s “no way, shape, or form” that access to contraception is at risk — is not accurate. Read more»

The U.S. House voted mostly along party lines Thursday to send the Senate legislation that would guarantee people the right to use contraception without government interference - with all four GOP members of Arizona’s delegation voting against the bill. Read more»