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President-elect Donald Trump says he has narrowed his choice for a Supreme Court nominee "down to probably three or four candidates." One of Trump's first decisions after his inauguration will be to nominate a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February.
In his Nov. 17 CNSNews.com column , Lynn Wardle claims that Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland will not receive a Senate hearing not because of Republican senators making a political power play -- as has been widely admitted -- but because of "the rude, disrespectful behavior of the very person who nominated him for the Supreme Court President Barack Obama." How so, you ask? Wardle explains: President Obama disrespected Justice Antonin Scalia and was very rude regarding his sudden death earlier this year.
Every November, the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies assembles at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington. In even-numbered years, it has become tradition for leading conservative and libertarian lawyers to ponder how the recent election would affect the courts and the Constitution.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says conservatives should make the work of the late Justice Antonin Scalia a "prologue" in the effort to limit the power of the courts and other branches of government. The Supreme Court has too often granted rights to people that are not found in the Constitution, Thomas said, citing the decision in 2015 that made same-sex marriage legal across the country.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called on fellow conservatives Thursday to continue the work of the late Justice Antonin Scalia to keep the power of the courts and other branches of government in check. Thomas told 1,700 people at a dinner in honour of Scalia that the Supreme Court has too often granted rights to people that are not found in the Constitution.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas addresses the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention dinner at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD, on Nov. 17, 2016. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas addresses the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention dinner at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD, on Nov. 17, 2016.
Donald Trump will quickly begin to define his presidential legacy by nominating a new Supreme Court justice as one of his first acts in office. The high court has had a vacancy since the sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia in February , despite a strident effort by President Obama to replace the conservative with his own choice, Merrick Garland.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday reinstated an Arizona law that makes it a felony to collect early ballots, stepping into a contentious political issue days before the presidential election and dealing a blow to Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts. The unsigned order from the nation's highest court overturns an appeals court decision from a day earlier that blocked the new law and drew celebration from Democrats.
It is business as usual for the Supreme Court justices despite the irresolution of the vacancy left by the untimely death of conservative-leaning Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Washington Redskins in which the NFL team was challenging the decision to cancel the team's trademarks after critics deemed it offensive to Native Americans.
Scalia's absence haunts Supreme Court's new term The late justice's impact will be felt on cases accepted, denied and delayed Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://usat.ly/2dTrUxb The Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday without Justice Antonin Scalia, whose absence will have a major impact. WASHINGTON - Justice Antonin Scalia will be missing when the Supreme Court opens its 2016 term Monday, but his influence lives on in the cases the court has granted, denied and delayed.
It's Tuesday, September 13, and Day 212 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 181 since Merrick Garland was nominated by President Obama to fill that vacancy.
As President Barack Obama's second and final term winds down, commentators consider each decision, each foreign trip and each utterance, along with the unfolding presidential campaign, in terms of what it all means in terms of his legacy. The Senate Republican leadership's legacy, as the congressional session winds down, is already clear.
Guest columnists Kevin King and Benjamin Flowers are critical of U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland's remarks about the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Guest columnist Benjamin Flowers practices law in Columbus and served as a law clerk to Justice Scalia during the Supreme Court's 2014 Term.
Wednesday marked the 200th day since the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and right on cue, the nation's top jurists handed down a decision to reflect the absurdity of holding up his replacement.
Stopping the clock in Georgia. In 1964, Rep. Denmark Groover hung over the gallery rail to stop the clock from reaching midnight on the last day of the legislative session.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is opening an address at a gathering of the New Mexico State Bar Association with a tribute to deceased Justice Antonin Scalia. Ginsburg recalled receiving from Scalia both birthday flowers and critical reviews of her draft opinions.
It has been almost six months since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, and almost five months since President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, the widely respected and centrist chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to succeed him. Because of obstructionism by Senate Republicans, however, the Senate is no closer to holding a hearing on Garland's nomination, much less voting on it.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland of Ohio is apologizing for remarks appearing to celebrate the death of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In audio of an appearance Monday before the AFL-CIO in Cleveland, the former Ohio governor is heard saying he didn't "wish anyone ill" but Scalia's death "happened at a good time" for union workers.
In agreeing last week to relax its voter-ID requirements for the November election, Texas showed how far the legal climate has shifted with respect to the wave of state laws enacted over the last decade. The agreement came less than two weeks after a federal appeals court said Texas's ID law was racially discriminatory.
In this Feb. 13, 2016 file photo, the Supreme Court building at seen sunset in Washington. The Supreme Court's order blocking a transgender male from using the boys' restroom at his Virginia school underscores how the presidential election results will shape the high court.