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President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans gained confidence on Thursday that his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, could win Senate confirmation after two wavering lawmakers responded positively to an FBI report on accusations of sexual misconduct against the judge. The report, sent by the White House to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the middle of the night, was denounced by Democrats as a whitewash that was too narrow in scope and ignored critical witnesses.
Georgia's two Republican U.S. senators say they will vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court despite decades-old sexual assault allegations against him. Senator Johnny Isakson said in a statement Thursday he supports the judge after a thorough review of witness testimony and records.
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said on Thursday that Brett Kavanaugh should not be confirmed to the Supreme Court, citing the nominee's behavior during last week's hearing. "I thought [Kavanaugh] definitely had the qualifications to sit on the Supreme Court and should be confirmed if he was ever selected, but I've changed my views for reasons that have, really, no relationship to his intellectual ability or his record as a federal judge," Stevens said during an event in Boca Raton, Florida, according to the Palm Beach Post .
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The Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to block a lower court order for Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to be questioned by lawyers for a group of states challenging a decision by President Donald Trump's administration to ask people taking part in the 2020 census whether they are citizens. The Justice Department told the Supreme Court the states should not be allowed to probe Ross's "mental state" in deciding to add the citizenship question to the census, saying that compelling testimony from high-ranking officials is rarely justified.
More than 50 local residents came out to protest the apparent likely confirmation of Federal Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court at the intersection of Routes 926 and 82 in Willowdale, Wednesday afternoon. A planned counter-demonstration by supporters of President Donald Trump and Kavanaugh appeared to draw far less support, with no more than six counter-protestors - and for most of the first hour, just one.
Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale accuses his Democratic opponent, Sen. Jon Tester, of obstructing the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by refusing to meet with him before deciding to vote against his nomination. The claim against the two-term incumbent feeds into State Auditor Rosendale's narrative of Tester as hostile to the agenda of President Donald Trump, who won Montana by 20 percentage points in 2016.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker made one last attempt to derail the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging his millions of Twitter followers to flood the Senate switchboard in opposition. Booker, D-N.J., issued his call to action as senators pored over a new FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault leveled against Kavanaugh.
'Boof and 'Devil's Triangle WERE sexual terms': Kavanaugh's freshman year roommate says the SCOTUS nominee lied under oath to senators about excessive drinking and his yearbook entries FBI report does NOT corroborate Christine Blasey Ford's claims that she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh, White House sources say as Trump is briefed and a SINGLE copy is handed to all 100 senators to share and read in a secure room More than 1,200 law professors sign letter urging the Senate to reject Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation because he 'did not display the judicial temperament' required for the Supreme Court Senators will see FBI's Kavanaugh report from 8am, but will NOT be allowed to discuss the contents, as Democrats claim bureau's background check ALREADY included warnings about allegations of sexual misconduct Lectures on sexual impropriety from a Clinton? CBS fails to ask Chelsea once ... (more)
Nearly a year after reports first surfaced of extravagant spending on his office, Justice Allen Loughry got his day in court. The former chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals sat Wednesday at the defendant's table for the first day of testimony at the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston.
Registration will allow you to post comments on StamfordAdvocate.com and create a StamfordAdvocate.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey S. Bivins, second from right, speaks as the court hears arguments regarding the state's use of a three-drug cocktail for executions Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn.
Rose Mary Knick makes no bones about it. She doesn't buy that there are bodies buried on her eastern Pennsylvania farmland, and she doesn't want people strolling onto her property to visit what her town says is a small cemetery.
The war over the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has been dirty since the day he was nominated. Over the past two weeks, the situation has devolved into Democrats entering debunked accusations of sexual assault into the congressional record and their leftist friends in the media publishing any accusation, named or unnamed, with zero corroboration.
There are plenty of reasons to be grateful that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election. But one of the biggest is almost certainly on First Street, NE in Washington, D.C. At least one justice working inside that Supreme Court would be different.
John Oliver discusses the ongoing controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, the sexual assault allegations against him, his Supreme Court nomination, and what that could all mean for the highest (mostly-dog) court in the land.
The Supreme Court considered toppling one of its precedents on private property rights Wednesday, with two more precedents in its sights. Abortion rights: Supreme Court considers overruling several lesser precedents.
A drawn-out beach battle has finally come to a close: on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will not hear tech billionaire's Vinod Khosla's appeal to overturn an earlier ruling giving the public access to a popular California beach running through his property. A venture capitalist who rose to prominence during the 1980s, Khosla, the Sun Microsystems founder, has spent almost a decade fighting to close a path that allowed the public access to Martin's Beach, a beloved surfing destination.
A panel of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously decided last week that a properly-drafted arbitration clause that waives class actions and reserves to the arbitrator the determination of whether a dispute is properly arbitrable, will defeat class action certification and require the granting of an order compelling arbitration, even in California, which is historically hostile to class waivers and mandatory arbitration. The case was closely-watched both because of the size of the class and to understand the impact in California of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last term in Epic Systems .
If Kavanaugh's tantrum leads to confirmation, he will become the 110th male Supreme Court justice out of 114 justices in 228 years. WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh arrives to testify testifies before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC.
On Monday, the Supreme Court started a new term, with a docket packed with cases that could affect our personal lives, the environment and American democracy itself. But despite its predominant role, the court is the one branch of our federal government that does not allow itself to be video recorded.