Male federal judge has some advice for female lawyers about what to wear in court: “If they are likely to label you, like Jane Curtin, an ignorant slut behind your back, tone it down.”

A Massachusetts candidate for governor passed a kidney stone during a debate.

This arrest of a secretary of state candidate today in California was reportedly part of an investigation that stemmed from a fatal shooting five years ago.

A new poll found that more than half of the American public is tired of hearing debate about Obamacare. TPM’s Dylan Scott explains why that’s bad news for the GOP’s 2014 strategy.

A California man is hoping to make a huge profit by selling off Nazi items he says were once owned by Hitler.

North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis — who notably shepherded through the state’s infamous “motorcycle abortion” bill last year — asked Dr. Mary Susan Fulghum to join his “Women For Tillis” group. But he left out the part of her biography that mentions she’s a co-founder of a Planned Parenthood affiliate.

Obama’s judicial nominees tend to come from very similar professional backgrounds, Alliance for Justice’s Nan Aron writes. Fewer than 4 percent have worked as lawyers at a public interest organization.

You’re going to hear spin from just about everyone after Obamacare open enrollment ends next week. The best advice? Ignore it. Here are three better ways to tell if Obamacare was successful in its first year.

This morning Elena Kagan cited Antonin Scalia’s own arguments in front of him to argue against overturning the Obamacare birth control mandate.

With Hobby Lobby’s arguments against the birth control mandate before the Supreme Court today, it seems like as good of a day as any to re-read Ed Kilgore’s great take on how the religious liberty campaign is backfiring.