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Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement is setting off a momentous confirmation battle for US president Donald Trump's next Supreme Court nominee. Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement is setting off a momentous confirmation battle for US president Donald Trump's next Supreme Court nominee.
It all started before the 2016 election. In October 2016, the Access Hollywood audiotape showed candidate Trump bragging about how status as a "star" gave him the power to sexually assault women.
Granted, that was the inescapable buzzword last week as the left wing rose in pointedly uncivil protest of the evil being perpetrated by the Republican Party and the moral monstrosity who is our president. GOP officials found themselves turned away from one restaurant, heckled in two others and confronted at the movies.
As the Department of Veterans Affairs looks to implement a new Cerner electronic health record system replacing the agency's legacy EHR, members of Congress are letting the VA know they are committed to seeing the project through. "$15.8 billion over 10 years, including $10 billion to Cerner, is a staggering number for an enormous government agency," said Phil Roe, MD , chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, during a hearing on Tuesday.
Pat Fontes, who is challenging United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in the Democratic primary, spoke to her decision to get into the race when she appeared on GoLocal LIVE. The 81-year-old Fontes spoke to her return to Rhode Island after living in Europe and "not even recognizing" the Democratic Party; Fontes also told GoLocal News Editor Kate Nagle how she had once supported Whitehouse before turning against him.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says President Donald Trump is serious about having Russia rejoin the G-7. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated to senators Wednesday that President Donald Trump is serious in his desire to have Russia rejoin the Group of 7 countries even absent any improvements in Moscow's support for Russian separatists in Ukraine.
There's nothing like Supreme Court nomination to get the political spin going at full speed. In 2016, The Fact Checker awarded a bushel of flip-flops to lawmakers , Democrat and Republican, who conveniently changed their position on Supreme Court nominations depending on who was in power at the time.
The Latest on the looming battle to choose a successor for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy : Former Vice President Joe Biden is urging Americans to "rise up" to demand President Donald Trump nominate a "consensus candidate" to the Supreme Court. Biden sided with Democrats who have said the Senate should postpone the confirmation process until after the mid-term elections.
Some of ... . A young child holds a sign during the rally to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies Saturday, June 30, 2018, in New York, New York.
According to a survey released Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports, 31 percent of U.S. voters think a second civil war in the United States is likely within five years. Poll: Almost a third of US voters think a second civil war is coming soon According to a survey released Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports, 31 percent of U.S. voters think a second civil war in the United States is likely within five years.
Hours after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement set off a political earthquake, President Donald Trump told supporters in North Dakota he wants to pick a replacement who can serve for more than four decades and cement a conservative majority on the high court. "We have to pick a great one, we have to pick one that's going to be there for 40 years, 45 years," Trump told a rally during at a hockey arena in Fargo, N.D. "We need intellect, we need so many things."
Martines collected 74 percent of 1,904 votes to Mellor's 26 percent, according to unofficial results released by the county clerk/auditor. Jones, a former county commissioner, defeated fellow Democrat Joe Christman during Tuesday's Democratic primary vote by 11 percentage points.
During a rally in Fargo, North Dakota on Wednesday evening, President Trump pushed a blatant lie about Rep. Maxine Waters , and then tried to gaslight his listeners about his own history of calling for violence against protesters and his political opponents. "Maxine - she's a beauty," Trump said.
State Rep. Abby Finkenauer was hoping a Democratic "blue wave" would carry her to victory in Iowa's 1st Congressional District and make her the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
A war may be brewing within the United States, almost a third of voters say in a poll released Wednesday . Amid widespread political polarization on issues like immigration and recent public confrontations of Trump administration officials , 31 percent of probable U.S. voters surveyed said they think "it's likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years."
Justice Kennedy's retirement comes as parties already are in emotional fights over recent immigration policy and Supreme Court rulings on travel ban and unions Recent events have rubbed emotions raw in both parties. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said she was booted from the Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Va., upsetting Republicans.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday urged Vice President Mike Pence to press Ecuador's government over asylum it grants to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Sen. Robert Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and nine other Democratic senators said in a letter to Pence that they were extremely concerned over Ecuador's protection of Assange at its embassy in London.
Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's "Hardball", warned the Democratic leadership "will have hell to pay" with voters if the party fails to block President Donald Trump's pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced Wednesday that he is retiring at the end of July. Matthews said that because Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, refused to even meet with former President Barack Obama's pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Democrats have to do everything in their power to stop Trump's pick from being confirmed.
Trump tweeted before Wednesday's flight to Fargo that he was en route to "fully stand with and endorse" Cramer. Cramer serves in the U.S. House and Trump says he's an "extraordinary Congressman."
Anthony Kennedy's decision to retire set off another political skirmish Wednesday, as Senate Democrats, including from Illinois, demanded a replacement be put off until after the midterm elections.