Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, the latter has said she will be looking for appointees who respect court precedent. Picking Barrett would be a big win for Trump’s base, but could set the stage for a congressional confirmation battle. So who will the president choose? The country will ...
who authored the immunity ruling in Trump's favor last year, and Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett were in the majority along with the three Democratic appointees.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said the efforts in the last weeks of Trump's presidency failed because of resistance from his Justice appointees who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court. Other senior dep...
Trump’s unparalleled flex of presidential power seems destined for several dates at a Supreme Court that he helped shape with three appointees during his first term. But even a conservative majority that has a robust view of presidential power and granted him broad immunity from criminal prosecutio...
The Supreme Court, whose 6-3 conservative majority includes three Trump appointees, said on Monday: "We conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. "But states have no power under the constitution to enforce section 3 ...
In a statement accompanying Thursday’s order, the court’s three Democratic appointees said they would’ve declined to intervene in this litigation and effectively held the government to the judge’s directive. “Nevertheless, I agree with the Court’s...
Like Trump's two other appointees, Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, Barrett is young enough that she could serve for decades in the lifetime job, leaving a lasting conservative imprint. Barrett is the youngest Supreme Court nominee since conservative Cl...
Trump’s unparalleled flurry of executive orders seems destined for several dates at a Supreme Court that he helped shape with three appointees during his first term, but so far the majority on the nine-member court has taken relatively small steps in two cases that have reached it. ...
President Donald Trump will ask the Supreme Court to allow him to fire the head of a government ethics watchdog agency in the first appeal from his litigious second term to reach the nation’s highest court.
In the past, Trump has netted important victories before the Supreme Court for his policies on trade, immigration and the environment. With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett before he lost to Biden in 2020, three of the Supreme Court’s nine justices are Trump appointees. Article content ...