"For years we've been told to take a back seat in #SCOTUS nominations, but not any longer. @realDonaldTrump has chosen a nominee in #AmyConeyBarrett who religious conservatives can call one of their own," Hawley wrote. 'The dogma lives loudly within you' Barrett's confirmation hear...
Republicans changed Senate rules last year to get Trump's conservative nominee Neil Gorsuch confirmed, lowering the threshold to advance Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority vote. Supreme Court vacancies have become a key voting issue in the U.S. presidential election. In a CNN exit po...
Trump's Supreme Court nominations during his first term widened the court's conservative majority from 6-3, and replacing any of the three other members would maintain that ideological split. Any nominations during Trump's second term would likely be of younger judges who could serve for decades...
Trump’s initial attempt at an executive order temporarily banning travel to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries hit roadblocks in the courts. On his second attempt, the Supreme Court allowed only a sharply scaled back version of the order to go forward pending arguments scheduled fo...
Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump are the front-runners for their respective parties’ presidential nominations. Though you may start to hear them referred to as their parties’ “presumptive nominees,” The Associated Press only uses that term once a candidate has captured the number ...
How many delegates does Iowa have, and how will today's caucuses impact the 2024 presidential nominations? A candidate must receive the majority of delegates to win the nomination. For Republicans, this means securing 1,215 of the over 2,400 delegates. For Democrats, there are about 3,900 ...
The Senate always can be convened on short notice to consider a president’s nominations, he said. “The only remaining practical use for the recess appointment power is the ignoble one of enabling presidents to circumvent the Senate’s role in the appointment process, which is...
But whatever Mr. Trump said during his campaign, Leonard Leo, who advises the president on judicial nominations, said abortion did not come up in Mr. Trump's interviews with prospective nominees when he chose Justice Neil Gorsuch last year. ...
appointed judges on these three-judge panels, and when these courts go en banc, which is all active federal court judges sitting together, they can overrule a panel and set circuit precedent," said Mike Davis, former chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck ...
At that time, Majority Leader McConnell made up a rule based on the fiction that I somehow believed that there should be no nomination to the Court in an election year. It’s ridiculous. The only rule I ever followed related to Supreme Court nominations was the Constitution’s obligation for...