Former Attorney General Bill Barr, appointed by Trump, told CBS News this summer the case against Trump over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election is a "challenging case" but not one that violates the First Amendment. Barr has said the case alleging Trump mishandled classified documents...
A Colorado native, Gorsuch holds degrees from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford. He served as a law clerk for the late Justice Byron White and Justice Anthony Kennedy in the 1990s. He was appointed to the appeals court by President George W. Bush in 2006....
The newest member of the Supreme Court,Justice Amy Coney Barrett, was nominated by President Donald Trump (R) on September 29, 2020, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 26, 2020. How often is a new Supreme Court justice appointed? Like all Federal judges, Supreme Court Justices ...
In court documents filed late Monday, Solicitor General Noel Francisco said the government was petitioning the nation's highest court to hear the case on whether it is lawful for the Trump administration to end DACA. He called the injunctions by three federal circuit courts that prevented the g...
The current and 85th United States Attorney General is William Barr, appointed by PresidentDonald J. Trumpon December 7, 2018, and confirmed by the Senate on February 14, 2019. Mission Statement The mission of the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorneys is: “To enforce the law and defend...
Appointed by the Justice Department in May 2017 to take over the Russia probe, Mueller concluded his 22-month investigation in March by submitting a report to William Barr, who became Attorney General about a month earlier. The report stated that there was no evidence that Trump's campaign con...
the final justice appointed by Trump stood, Eva Peron-like, on the White House balcony after her nomination, and recently delivered a speech at the inauguration of the Mitch McConnell Center at the University of Louisville. Hardly the behaviour of the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin’s idealised...
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Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk allowed the states to pursue legal action in Texas that seeks to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from allowing online prescriptions for Mifepristone over concerns that it could “undermine state abortion laws and frustrate state law enforcement,”...
Congress, as the attorney general has done withreportsfromother special counselsbefore they were made public. The New York Timesfirst reportedSmith's plans to step down.Smith wasappointed by Garlandtwo years ago to take over the Justice Department's investigations into Trump: the first involving...