Don Willett

The White House today walked back the nominations of two of President Trump’s most controversial judicial nominees, Brett Talley, a 36-year-old with a record of online extremism who had never tried a case, and Jeff Mateer, a former attorney for a Religious Right legal group who had said that transge

The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the nominations of 10 of President Trump’s federal judicial nominees, including four highly controversial nominees who were opposed by every Democrat on the committee. Our colleague Paul Gordon delved into the records of the four most controversial of th

The Texas Supreme Court issued a bizarre ruling on Friday that, Obergefell notwithstanding, it isn’t clear whether Houston can legally provide marriage benefits to city employees married to someone of the same sex, given the state’s laws prohibiting such benefits. First, a little backgroun