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Christopher Scalia, son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, said his father would not have been surprised by the drama surrounding Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. "Would he have been surprised by the heated debate, political maneuvers, protests, last-minute delays and uncorroborated allegations of sexual misconduct that we saw during now-Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation process?" Christopher wrote in an op-ed for Fox News Thursday.
From left to right, Justice Department nominees Noel Francisco to be solicitor general, Makan Delrahim to be an assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division, and Steven Engel to be an assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, raise their right hands as they are sworn in during their Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, on May 10, 2017. If Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is ousted Monday, oversight of the special counsel investigation of Russian activity will most likely fall to Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco.
The Senate Judiciary Committee and lawyers for Ford have been in negotiations for days about whether she would appear before the panel. Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s when both were teenagers.
Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to U.S. Supreme Court was roiled further late Thursday by incendiary tweets from a prominent friend and supporter who publicly identified another high school classmate of Kavanaugh's as a possible attacker of a woman accusing the judge of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. Ed Whelan, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, pointed to floor plans, online photographs and other information to suggest a location for the house party in suburban Maryland that Christine Blasey Ford described.
Once again partisanship is rearing its disgusting head at the pre-confirmation debate over Brett Kavanaugh. Long gone are the days when a judge's qualifications were the only factors considered.
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks after the screening of "RBG," the documentary about her, in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 5, 2018. US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks after the screening of "RBG," the documentary about her, in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 5, 2018.
"I'm now 85," Ginsburg said, according to CNN . "My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years."
President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared in 2016 that he wanted to "put the final nail" in the coffin of Morrison v. Olson, a Supreme Court decision that upheld a court-appointed special prosecutor's power to investigate high-level executive branch criminality.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is retiring, administers an oath of office to Neil Gorsuch - the first Supreme Court justice nominated by President Donald Trump. Along with a second high court nominee, Trump is moving at record pace to fill the federal appeals courts with young conservative judges .
"The consequences here will almost certainly be extremely grim," said Oliver on Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight' before sharing clips of CNN's Jeffrey Toobin stating that abortions will soon become illegal in the United States. On Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight , host John Oliver shared his take on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
NewsOK Pro is a fast and easy way to build your own customized topic pages and add them to the existing NewsOK you've grown to love. THE fact that President Trump has the opportunity to place a second justice on the Supreme Court, due to Anthony Kennedy's retirement, is a reminder that sometimes, gambling pays off.
In the wake of Anthony Kennedy's decision to retire from the US Supreme Court, the left is doing a frantic post-mortem on how they could possibly have overlooked the notion that an 81-year-old man might want to retire. The real subject deserving of a post-mortem is why they thought they could rule indefinitely through an increasingly SJW-oriented Supreme Court instead of by winning elections, but that isn't happening and it isn't going to.
In Seattle, labor leaders and Democrats were distressed-and defiant-over the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision suffocating public sector unions. The ruling in Janus vs. AFSCME allows public employees to opt out of paying for collective bargaining, which could shrink union membership and political clout.
The United States Senate returned to work last week. Time to talk about President Donald Trump's nominations again - especially those to the federal courts.
The United States Senate returns to work this week. Time to talk about President Donald Trump's nominations again - especially those to the federal courts.
After a year on the Supreme Court as President Trump's first nominee, Justice Neil Gorsuch has largely fulfilled conservatives' hopes and justified liberals' fears by refusing to take a back seat. Instead, he has ably replaced the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the bench and in the public arena.
With the justice holding the decisive vote silent, a divided Supreme Court sparred Monday over a case that could undermine the financial footing of labor unions that represent government workers. The justices heard arguments in a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose not to join.
Two years ago, many public sector unions were on a collision course with the Angel of Death. All five Republicans on the Supreme Court appeared ready to cut off a major source of union funding and encourage public employees to become free-riders who enjoy all the benefits of unionization without paying for it.