Donald Trump has already appointed three Supreme Court justices. In his second term, he could well have a chance to name two more, creating a high court with a Trump-appointed majority that could serve for decades.
That person said the Trump team has a “deep bench” of lawyers who share the president-elect’s vision and are prepared to defend it, arguing that early in Trump’s first administration, career civil servants and appointees who did not share Trump’s ideology were a stumbling block. But ...
The case was argued before Judges Florence Pan and J. Michelle Childs, appointees of Biden, a Democrat, and Karen LeCraft Henderson, who was named to the bench by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. The case in Washington is one offour prosecutionsTrump faces as he seeks to reclaim...
the first analyses of Trump's appointment process over his full term in office, including his unique use of appointment short lists, the confirmation strategy his administration pursued in tandem with Republican Senate leadership, and the lasting impact Trump's appointees are likely to have on U....
I expected Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, and likely John Roberts, to pervert logic, sense, reason, intellectual honesty, and the law, for ideology. The really sick part is the three Trump appointees. I am sure they feel like they made a tough and ethical decision ...
Eight of the nine justices suggested that they were open to some of the arguments made by Jonathan Mitchell, Trump's lawyer at the Supreme Court.
Though the Senate is tasked with an advice and consent role in the confirmation process, the Constitution's Recess Appointment Clause affords the president the ability to temporarily fill vacancies while the Senate is in recess, and appointees may stay in the role until the end of the following...
Trump’s two appointees to the Washington court said the full court should have reheard the case. Judge Greg Katsas called the subpoena a “threat to presidential autonomy and independence.” There are two Trump appointees on the nine-member Supreme Court, Justices N...
If there’s a Trump presidency, a GOP-led Senate would likely approve any Supreme Court nominee that he puts forward, which could solidify or even expand the current 6-3 majority of Republican appointees. And if Harris were to win, they can also block any...
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 ...