jurists

The two oldest justices are also its most conservative jurists.

In his first term, Donald Trump reshaped the federal courts in his image, installing far-right jurists at every level of the judiciary and securing a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

And anyone assisting has to ensure voters are safe and properly informed not just for the sake of the Electoral College, but for all the essential lower-level races: city and county officials, state jurists, members of school boards and utility commissions.

McBurney’s two Georgia rulings show that we still have jurists of integrity able to maintain the law’s guardrails on a would-be authoritarian’s power.

Institute senior fellow Ilya Shapiro has a lengthy history of smearing distinguished jurists of color—most pointedly Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson—as “lesser” judicial appointees and as examples of “identity politics” over merit.