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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.
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.