This week, Judge Neil Gorsuch testifies at his confirmation hearings to be Supreme Court justice, filling the vacancy left over a year ago by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The hearings begin Monday are expected to continue for several days. Day One will feature 10-minute opening statements ...
Abortion—and theRoe v. Wadedecision in particular—will be the main issue on which the Senate will focus while reviewing Supreme Court nominees. Pro-abortion organizations and liberal politicians are voicing their concerns thatRoe v. Wadewill be overturned. Important to note, however, is that, ...
Leo is now a giant in judicial politics who helped handpick Donald Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees and recently received a $1.6 billion donation to further his political interests. Leo’s network of political groups was in its early days, however, when he traveled with Alit...
Supreme Court nominees prompts an examination of barriers obstructing women's rise to this apex position. Contrary to scholars who emphasize "pipeline" theories of how increased women in the law will de facto increase the number of women in the judiciary, or that ideology ...
Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on Thursday smacked down President Barack Obama’s claim that he can legally avoid Senate confirmation for nominees when the chamber is idle. The decision invalidates three recess appointments made by Obama to the five-member National Labor Relations Board in ...
Republicans have slammed their Democratic colleagues for their treatment of Supreme Court nominees picked by Republican presidents during their confirmations. Durbin told NBC News recently that the days when liberal titan Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed 96-3 and conservative icon Justice Antonin...
The statement continued, “Senate Democrats are in a strong position regarding judicial confirmations as we approach the lame duck session given that we have a number of nominees on the floor ready for a vote, and others still moving through Committee.” ...
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However, nasty partisan fights are expected ahead over Gorsuch's confirmation in the Senate, where Supreme Court nominees can be filibustered. Pelosi said Senate Democrats, holding 48 seats in the Senate, should apply the "strongest scrutiny" during Gorsuch's confirmation, but didn't mention if...
Chief Justice John Roberts first arrived at the Supreme Court in 1980, as a law clerk to then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist, for what would be a formative year in his judicial calling. At Senate hearing, Trump Justice Department nominees are cagey on whether they’d follow court orders...