This Article undertakes a systematic rebuttal to the arguments made by Supreme Court nominees and others that Court nominees are constrained, in their Senate hearings on possible confirmation, from expressing their specific views on legal issues and cases of the day. It argues that nominee ...
though, he must sit through confirmation hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as Republicans work to confirm President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee as quickly as possible and Democrats vie for more time to vet Kavanaugh and his ...
women in combat. here’s how it unfolded. pete hegseth speaks during his confirmation hearing before the senate armed services committee at the capitol in washington on tuesday. haiyun jiang/nyt president-elect donald trump’s choice for defense secretary, pete hegseth, vowed tuesday to foster a...
During Senate confirmation hearings on Wednesday, Vought and Bondi expressed support for the policies behind Schedule F. Vought testified that he believes portions of the federal government have been "weaponized." He declined to answer questions about whether he had advised Trump to con...
s admission in the background interview, the committee agreed it was only fair to let a Republican ask the question on the public record, and so it was decided that the committee’s minority counsel, Fred Thompson (who was later elected to the Senate, in 1994) would be the one ...
Cassidy, on the other hand, controls just one of the 100 votes in the Senate. His power to ensure that the would-be Health and Human Services leader would not merely tolerate vaccines but actively promote them was greatest before last week’s committee vote, when he had the leverage to d...
A Senate committee will vote on money manager Scott Bessent, Trump’s choice for Treasury Secretary, at 10:15 ET. He’s an advocate of cutting spending while extending the tax cuts. Trump’s press secretary says the president plans to make a ‘massive announcement’ on infrastructure — 9:...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, highlighted concerns about strategic, or special interest, litigation during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.13 Previously having written about this subject for theHarvard Journal on Legislati...
Gen. Christopher Donahue — President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Army in Europe and Africa and set for promotion to four-star general — suggests a senator is holding the nomination. Donahue was one of nearly 1,000 promotions the Senate Armed Services Committee approved on Tuesday, and...
ATM transactions, debit-card charges) from being rejected when they exceed the available funds in the account. Overdraft protection, sometimes called cash-reserve checking,is used most frequently as a cushion forchecking accounts, but it also can be applied to savings accounts. ...