| 2026-07-10 | Nevada Federal Judge Rules ICE Is 'Rebelling' Against Court Order, Forces Release of 17 Detainees
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-09 | Bipartisan Congress Investigates FBI Director Kash Patel Over Jet Junkets, BMW Fleet, and Undisclosed Stock
2 src Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · Jamie Raskin · Dick Durbin | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-07 | DOJ Threatens Criminal Prosecution of Election Officials in All 50 States, Deploys Monitors to Democratic Jurisdictions
2 src Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-02 | 5th Circuit Rules Due Process Requires Bond Hearings After 90 Days in ICE Detention, Deepening Circuit Split
3 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-02 | ProPublica: Supreme Court's October 2025 Term First to Decide More Cases by Shadow Docket Than Argued Opinion
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · ProPublica | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | Supreme Court Eliminates Nationwide Injunctions, Stripping the Broadest Judicial Check on Executive Action
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Birthright-Citizenship Executive Order at Term's End
5 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-29 | Supreme Court Overturns Humphrey's Executor, Grants President At-Will Firing Power Over Independent Agencies
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · John Roberts · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-27 | SCOTUS poised to grant Trump at-will firing power over independent agencies in Trump v. Slaughter
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-25 | SCOTUS in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado lets Trump turn away asylum-seekers metered at the border, 6-3
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-23 | Eight Prairieland ICE-Protest Defendants Sentenced to 30–100 Years in First Federal Antifa Terrorism Case
4 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-18 | SCOTUS Unanimously Strikes Down Drug-User Gun Ban (US v. Hemani) — Bruen Extension Narrows Federal Criminal Firearms Law
3 src Neil Gorsuch · Donald Trump · Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2026-06-15 | SCOTUS Grants Cert in Genalo v. Black on Prolonged Immigration Detention — May End Bond-Hearing Requirement
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-12 | After Callais + Alabama Orders, Southern Republicans Race to Redraw Maps Eliminating Majority-Black Districts
4 src Hakeem Jeffries | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-02 | SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Order Reinstates Alabama GOP Map for 2026, Staying Lower-Court Finding of Intentional Racial Discrimination
5 src Alabama Legislature · ACLU | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-01 | Boasberg criminal-contempt case stalled while Bove, central to it, is confirmed to the Third Circuit
3 src James Boasberg · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | Trump DOJ Asks Court to Pause Section 122 Tariff Ruling; Signals Emergency Supreme Court Appeal if Denied
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Court of International Trade · Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | 11th Circuit Rejects Trump No-Bond Detention Policy, Deepening 4-Way Circuit Split Toward SCOTUS
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-04 | SCOTUS 6-3 Callais Ruling Immediately Effective, Voiding 100K Ballots; Roberts Court Completes VRA Gutting
3 src John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · Neil Gorsuch · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-01 | Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians
5 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders
4 src Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-04 | Senate Confirms Peterson to Alaska Federal Bench Despite Election Denial
3 src Senate Judiciary Committee · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | Supreme Court to Hear Birthright Citizenship Challenge in April
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · American Civil Liberties Union · D. John Sauer | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Presidential Removal Power in Trump v Cook
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · Brett Kavanaugh · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-20 | Supreme Court Issues Three Unanimous Rulings on Federal Procedures
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Amy Coney Barrett · Samuel Alito | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-09 | Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-23 | SCOTUS (6-3, Trump v. Illinois) Blocks Chicago National Guard Federalization; Trump Stands Down From Chicago/LA/Portland, Vows to 'Come Back Stronger'
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Amy Coney Barrett · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Orders FBI to Compile "Domestic Terrorism" List Targeting Political Beliefs
4 src Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Donald Trump · Kash Patel |
| reported |
| 2025-11-06 | Supreme Court Issues Emergency Stay Allowing Trump Administration to Withhold $4 Billion in SNAP Food Benefits
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · John McConnell · USDA |
| reported |
| 2025-10-09 | Senate Confirms Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Court of Appeals
3 src U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Federalist Society |
| reported |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration |
| reported |
| 2025-09-09 | Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap
3 src Heritage Foundation · Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court |
| reported |
| 2025-08-20 | US Imposes Unprecedented Sanctions on Four International Criminal Court Officials
5 src Marco Rubio · Volker Türk |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-29 | Senate Confirms Emil Bove to Third Circuit Court of Appeals 50-49 Despite DOJ Mass-Resignation Record and Whistleblower Allegations
4 src Emil Bove · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice · Danielle Sassoon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-06 | DC Circuit Rules 2-1 That Trump Can Bar AP from White House Events
5 src Associated Press · White House · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-16 | Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers Targeting Judicial Oversight
4 src Elon Musk · Chuck Grassley · Lauren Boebert | | confirmed |
| 2025-03-30 | Musk Distributes $1 Million Payments in Controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Intervention
4 src Elon Musk · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · Josh Kaul |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-20 | Musk PAC Offers $100 to Wisconsin Voters for 'Anti-Activist Judge' Petition
3 src Elon Musk · Josh Kaul · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-19 | Musk Calls for Judicial Impeachment Wave, Supports GOP Lawmakers
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-11 | Heritage Foundation Hosts Closed-Door Washington Workshop With Hungary's MCC and Poland's Ordo Iuris on Dismantling the European Commission and European Court of Justice
2 src Heritage Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers
15 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-06-24 | Roake v. Brumley Filed — Multi-Faith Coalition Challenges Louisiana Ten Commandments Mandate; 5th Circuit En Banc Reinstates Law (Feb. 2026)
3 src ACLU · Freedom From Religion Foundation · Jeff Landry |
| confirmed |
| 2024-05-27 | Danube Institute 'Rule of Law as Lawfare' Conference Convenes US Heritage Foundation, Polish Supreme Court, Israeli Overhaul Author, and Federalist Society-Orbit Scholars in Budapest
4 src Heritage Foundation · John Yoo | | confirmed |
| 2024-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events
4 src Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Charles Koch · David Koch · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · +8 |
| confirmed |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief
3 src John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan |
| confirmed |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions
12 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 |
| confirmed |
| 2023-06-20 | ProPublica Reveals Samuel Alito's Undisclosed Luxury Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer
3 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo · ProPublica |
| confirmed |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts
4 src ProPublica · Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2022-12-05 | Kendal Price Files Whistleblower Complaint on Jane Roberts Commission Income and Chief Justice Non-Recusal
6 src John Roberts · Dick Durbin |
| confirmed |
| 2022-06-30 | Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 |
| confirmed |
| 2021-12-01 | Malafaia Campaigns for 'Terribly Evangelical' STF Seat — André Mendonça Confirmed to Supreme Federal Court malafaia-silas | | confirmed |
| 2021-01-01 | Barre Seid Donates $1.6 Billion to Leonard Leo Dark Money Network
4 src Leonard Leo |
| confirmed |
| 2019-07-01 | Clarence Thomas Takes 8-Day Indonesia Yacht Trip with Harlan Crow
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow | | confirmed |
| 2018-06-27 | Janus v. AFSCME - Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Sector Union Fees, Targeting Teachers' Unions
6 src Samuel Alito · Neil Gorsuch · State Policy Network · Bradley Foundation · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-05-21 | Epic Systems v. Lewis: Supreme Court Allows Mandatory Arbitration Blocking Class Action Labor Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Federalist Society · Corporate employers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-16 | Neil Gorsuch Sells Property to Law Firm CEO Days After Supreme Court Confirmation
4 src Neil Gorsuch |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-31 | Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money
3 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell |
| confirmed |
| 2016-05-18 | Trump Promises All Supreme Court Picks Will Come From Federalist Society
3 src Donald Trump · Leonard Leo · Don McGahn · Neil Gorsuch · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-01-01 | Eastern District of Texas Patent Troll Haven: Judge Rodney Gilstrap Handles 25% of All U.S. Patent Cases, Forum Shopping Peak
5 src John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-20 | Harlan Crow Purchases Clarence Thomas's Mother's House in Undisclosed Deal
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow | | confirmed |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican National Committee · Anthony Kennedy · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-25 | Shelby County Decision Guts Voting Rights Act Preclearance
5 src Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Leonard Leo Directs Hidden Payments to Ginni Thomas Through Kellyanne Conway, Instructs "No Mention of Ginni"
4 src Leonard Leo · Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Kellyanne Conway · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending
4 src DonorsTrust · Koch brothers · Federalist Society · State Policy Network · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-01 | Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2003-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Begins Undisclosed Luxury Trips on Harlan Crow's Yacht and Private Jets
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-12 | Supreme Court Delivers Partisan Bush v. Gore Decision with Corporate Legal Team Involvement
4 src George W. Bush · Al Gore · William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | CNP and Federalist Society Coordination - Leonard Leo Links Judicial and Political Networks
2 src Council for National Policy · Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Clarence Thomas |
| confirmed |
| 1988-06-29 | Morrison v. Olson: Scalia's Lone Dissent Articulates Unitary-Executive Theory That Becomes Movement Doctrine
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · Edwin Meese |
| confirmed |
| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century
4 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · Lewis Powell · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Olin Foundation Law and Economics Programs Expand to Elite Law Schools
3 src John M. Olin Foundation · Yale Law School |
| confirmed |
| 1986-02-25 | Meese Announces West Publishing Deal: Presidential Signing Statements Enter U.S. Code Legislative History
3 src Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Samuel Alito · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception
4 src Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Robert Bork · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure
4 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court
3 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-01-01 | Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline
3 src Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Yale Law School |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork |
| confirmed |
| 1977-06-23 | Supreme Court Decides GTE Sylvania, First Major Chicago School Antitrust Victory
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1976-05-24 | Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Warren Burger · Byron White · Thurgood Marshall | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight
3 src Warren Burger · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund |
| confirmed |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality
3 src Lewis Powell · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo
3 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-10-21 | Nixon nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court two months after corporate blueprint memo
4 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1971-08-23 | Lewis Powell Writes Landmark Memo Blueprinting Corporate Institutional Capture Strategy
5 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Nixon Administration | | confirmed |
| 1952-06-02 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer: Supreme Court Strikes Steel Seizure; Jackson Concurrence Becomes Canonical Executive-Power Framework
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Harry S. Truman · Fred Vinson |
| confirmed |
| 1944-12-18 | Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Frank Murphy · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Francis Biddle · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Announces Judicial Reorganization Plan to Add Up to Six Supreme Court Justices, Triggering Court-Packing Crisis
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Supreme Court of the United States · Senate Judiciary Committee · Charles Evans Hughes | | confirmed |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Court-Packing Plan: Executive Assault on Judicial Independence Establishes Permanent Template
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings |
| confirmed |
| 1936-12-21 | United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · John Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1936-01-06 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Harlan Fiske Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Agriculture | | confirmed |