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The first Monday of every October features a majestic ritual in our nation's capital. Nine of the most powerful lawyers in America ascend the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court , led by the chief justice of the United States, where they hear the first oral arguments of the new term.
Donald Trump has said he's planning a trip to "the biggest stadium in Texas we can find" on Ted Cruz's behalf. And then there's Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, a political dustup in the final weeks before the election that seems sure to drive either Republicans or Democrats - or both - to the polls.
Workers outside of a pub in the City of London Oct. 18, 2017. A traditional pastime of lunch or after-work drinks with colleagues may be fading, part of a worldwide trend that is seeing a drop in the overall percentage of people who consume alcoholic beverages.
Rather than investigate Christine Blasey Ford's 36-year-old sexual assault allegation against him confidentially during August, as would have been normal for such cases, they leaked her story to the press to damage the nominee. They timed their ambush for maximum political effect, when the scheduled hearings were over.
Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, wrote an op-ed for the Guardian raising alarm about the Trump administration and how the global climate crisis is expected to force millions of people to flee their homes over the next few decades. Environmental activist Bill McKibben, in an op-ed published by the Guardian on Tuesday, expresses alarm over the Trump administration's "disastrous, linked policies on climate change and child refugee camps."
Dozens of prisoners serving no-parole sentences for killings they committed as juveniles are expected to get a chance for release, including the Oklahoma teenager convicted of shooting a college baseball player from Australia as he jogged down the street.
The nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has exposed just how far the Senate has drifted from the rules of decorum that once elevated senatorial prerogative over party, leaving behind the kind of smash-mouth partisan politics that have long dominated the unruly House. Senate rules dating back to Thomas Jefferson mandate that lawmakers refer to each other by state and title - "my good friend, the senator from California" - and forbid members from questioning motives, maligning a home state or imputing "to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator."
Greg Smith, from San Mateo, and his wife Arche Tse and their daughter Eurlie Xuan Smith, 4-months-old, head to the beach at Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Smith has been surfing for over 30 years.
Georgetown professor is suspended from Twitter for saying that white Republican senators 'deserve miserable deaths' and castration for backing Brett Kavanaugh A Georgetown University professor of political science had her Twitter account suspended on Tuesday after writing that white Republican senators who supported Brett Kavanagh's nomination for the US Supreme Court deserve to be castrated and put to death. Dr Carol Christine Fair, 50, an associate professor in the Security Studies Program within the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at the prestigious Washington DC school faced backlash after unleashing a scathing rant at the GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Twitter Saturday.
White House rips into reporter for 'desperate and ridiculous' attack on Kavanaugh for daring to reveal cops questioned the SCOTUS nominee over 1985 bloody bar fight during his time at Yale Friend of Kavanaugh and accuser Deborah Ramirez suggests judge was 'coordinating with friends to refute her claims BEFORE they were made public' - despite telling senators he first heard of allegations when they were published Mark Judge's college girlfriend claims she has repeatedly asked to be interviewed by the FBI to share information challenging Kavanaugh's 'innocent' high school sex life - but they haven't got back to her 'The notion every woman should be believed is absurd': Megyn Kelly goes on a Twitter rant about third Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick and hints she has 'credibility issues' Welcome to Slab City: Inside the Second World War military base in California that has turned into a home ... (more)
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gives his opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The U.S. Supreme Court begins its 2018-19 term in the aftermath of the pitched partisan battle over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Perhaps not in 80 years, since the 1937 fight over Franklin Roosevelt's so-called "court packing plan," has animosity among the three co-equal branches of government reached such heights.
FILE PHOTO: Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Dirks WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Monday he wants the FBI to conduct a comprehensive and quick investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against his U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but not a "witch hunt." Trump, speaking three days after he ordered the investigation, said he instructed White House counsel Don McGahn over the weekend to give the FBI free rein to interview whatever witnesses the agency deems necessary.
The Supreme Court has refused to take up a billionaire's appeal of a lower court's ruling that forced him to maintain public access to surfers and others who visit Martins Beach, a scenic spot near Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco. The case had been shaping up to be a showdown over California's Coastal Act, with possible ramifications for other states with laws to preserve public access to beaches.
Female Blackout refers to a campaign spread on Facebook encouraging women to change their profile pictures to a black square to symbolize "a world without women." After first appearing in 2017, the campaign resurfaced in late September 2018 in response to sexual assault claims against United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh .
For the uninitiated, a pipe band is a musical group comprised of bagpipes and drums. Frequently, the musicians are clad in kilts and other traditional Scottish apparel.
As the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate floor, it seems that Democrats and left-wing pundits may very well get what they've been asking for: an investigation by the FBI into the accusations of sexual assault against the nominee. But recent history casts doubt on whether a finding in Kavanaugh's favor would make a difference in the minds of Democrats who decided - long before there was any mention of the allegation - that Kavanaugh was unfit to serve on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court is refusing to hear an appeal from a California billionaire who doesn't want to open a road on his property so that the public can access a beach. The justices said Monday that they will not take up Vinod Khosla's appeal of a California appeals court decision.