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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.
The congregation at the oldest synagogue in the United States says it will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court this month in an attempt to overturn an appeals court's decision granting control of the synagogue to a New York congregation.
Since the Supreme Court in early 2016 once again ruled that Louisiana was - and had been for decades - unconstitutionally sentencing juveniles to life in prison without the opportunity for release, the state has made some substantial strides. But many advocates say Louisiana is far from where it should be.
Of course the system is rigged - systems are always rigged to protect the wealth, power, and self-interest of those who created them, those who benefit from them. That's not hyperbole; that's reality, that's human nature, and that's what the Bible calls sin.
A Republican-majority Senate narrowly confirmed Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday amid tumultuous partisan politics and allegations of sexual harassment. "My congratulations to Judge Kavanaugh for his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, he is fully qualified and I am confident he will do an excellent job.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he now remembers speaking with former senior White House adviser Steve Bannon in spring 2017 about adding a censorship question to the 2020 U.S. census. The new information comes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether Ross must answer questions from lawyers challenging whether the citizenship question legally can be included.
The ugly, brutal battle to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh - now Justice Kavanaugh - to the U.S. Supreme Court will leave exposed wounds in our political system that won't soon heal.
Journalists face increasingly hostile conditions covering public protests, presidential rallies, corruption, and police brutality in the course of work as watchdogs over government power. A case before the U.S. Supreme Court threatens press freedoms even further by potentially giving the government freer rein to arrest media people in retaliation for publishing stories or gathering news the government doesn't like.
The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with a case about the government's ability to detain certain immigrants after they've served sentences for committing crimes in the United States. Several justices expressed concerns with the government's reading of immigration law.
This hasn't been the greatest week of my life, yet witnessing Kavanaugh overcome seedy liberal machinations to become SCOTUS has put a smile upon my face. This smile only widens when noting subsuquent leftist meltdowns across social media -Those beautiful, schadenfreude-laced meltdowns from the real sack of deplorables.
Now that you're a confirmed Supreme Court justice, it must be a huge relief to realize that whatever you did or did not do to Christine Blasey Ford never really mattered. believe Christine Blasey Ford.
Brett Kavanaugh, the most controversial and unpopular U.S. Supreme Court nominee in recent history, was confirmed by a narrow Republican Senate majority for a lifetime appointment to the court. This display of raw political power is unprecedented in our democracy and has left most Americans wondering how such a blatant manipulation of longstanding judicial confirmation processes could happen.
President Donald Trump used a ceremonial swearing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Monday to apologize for the "pain and suffering" the president said his family had endured during his Senate confirmation. Without directly mentioning the allegations of sexual assault that stalled Kavanaugh's confirmation for weeks, Trump said he thought his second nominee to the Supreme Court deserved better than the "campaign of political and personal" attacks the president said he faced.
The Senate's majority leader, insisting his chamber won't be irreparably damaged by the bitter fight over new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is signaling he's willing to take up another high court nomination in the 2020 presidential election season should another vacancy arise. Heading into pivotal midterm elections, McConnell tried to distinguish between President Donald Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh this year and his own decision not to have the GOP-run Senate consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski forgot to ask Tuckerman Babcock, the head of the Republican Party, for his instructions on how she should vote on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The ultimately successful, if extremely messy, Senate confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is the unlikely and intriguing outcome of two disparate men invisibly working together, though they could hardly be more different - President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell was born in Alabama, raised in Kentucky and thanks to the demanding therapy of his mother, overcame the crippling physical restrictions of childhood polio so well he became a formidable baseball player.
The Utah Republican Party petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld the state's controversial law dealing with how political parties nominate candidates. The 2014 law, known as SB54, was upheld earlier this year by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
As I write this column, we don't yet know the ultimate outcome of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. This week, the FBI is conducting a further investigation into allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when both were in high school 36 years ago.
The Utah Republican Party petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld the state's controversial law dealing with how political parties nominate candidates. The 2014 law, known as SB54, was upheld earlier this year by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.