A landmark case that could decide whether the former president can run in November's election heard arguments from both sides of the case as Trump appeals the decision. TheSupreme Courthas a 6-3 conservative majority, after Mr Trump appointed three justices while in the White Hous...
Trump appointed three of the nine justices of the court, widening its conservative majority to 6-3. He had urged the Supreme Court to effectively rule that former presidents are insulated from accountability through the legal system. The Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump's appeal in late Ap...
The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as Trump-appointed Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, however, criticized their five conservative colleagues for delving deeper than necessary into resolving Trump's case by concluding that the enforcement ...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of the three justices appointed by Trump, suggested the court should be thinking about democracy and the right of the people to elect their preferred candidate when reaching a decision. "Your position has the effect of disenfranchising voters to a significant degre...
Trump’s Supreme Court supermajority didn’t help him steal the election in 2020 — but now, justices are laying down his 2024 victory path.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been evenly divided between Democratic appointees and Republican ones since Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly died last February. Earlier this month, several Senate Democrats vowed to block any nominee picked by Trump other than Judge Merrick Garland, nominated by former ...
Trump Asked Justice Department to Go to Supreme Court to Overturn Election: WSJ More Reuters FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Dona...
These Justice Department lawyers are destined to play a consequential role, particularly as they tee up cases that could play to the justices’ established conservatism. Six of the nine justices are Republican-appointed conservatives (three by Trump himself), and three justices are...
With Chief Justice John Roberts announcing that the “case is submitted,” the court has finished hearing arguments in Trump’s immunity case. And that raises an important question that is largely unanswerable: Just how much time will the high court take to hand down its opinion? Usually, a...
Roberts' remarks are not new. But they come as Trump and his allies have railed against federal judges who have paused or halted key parts of the president's agenda. (Some of the rulings they've taken issue with came from judges appointed by Trump in his first term.)The Supreme Court...