Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court

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GOP Senate candidate Kevin Cramer: I told Trump to avoid ‘affirmative action pick’ for Supreme Court

Rep. Kevin Cramer, a Republican running for the Senate in North Dakota, said last week he advised President Donald Trump not to be pressured into making his Supreme Court nomination "some sort of affirmative action pick." The comments by Cramer, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in one of the marquee Senate races of November's midterm elections, came Friday on KTGO-AM's "The Morning Lowdown" with host Dennis Lindahl.

Brett Kavanaugh: Supreme Court nominee straight out of central casting

On paper, Brett Kavanaugh may be the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in decades. A Yale Law School graduate, he has spent 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, had a Supreme Court clerkship and was a top aide to President George W. Bush.

Justice Ginsburg bemoans partisan divide in Congress

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed hope the traditional "bipartisan spirit" of congressional hearings for judges will once again prevail in Washington, rather than the votes of recent years that have mostly divided along party lines. Speaking at a Jerusalem cinema on Thursday after the screening of "RBG," the breakout hit documentary about her life and career, Ginsburg said she would not address past or present personnel changes on the court, in apparent reference to Justice Anthony Kennedy's upcoming retirement.

Remember: The Supreme Court Is on the Ballot in Every Federal Election

Now that Anthony Kennedy has proven to be, shall we say, the shy, retiring type, one wonders what the folks who felt that there was no difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton-the folks who stayed home or stood with Jill Stein on November 8, 2016-will say when the Senate confirms a new Supreme Court nominee who makes Antonin Scalia look like Thurgood Marshall in terms of judicial philosophy.

Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring from Supreme Court

In this March 23, 2015, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The 81-year-old Kennedy said Tuesday, June 27, 2018, that he is retiring after more than 30 years on the court.

Supreme Court: Law enforcement needs warrant for cellphone location information

Law enforcement officers need to obtain a search warrant in order to obtain data that shows the location of cellphone users, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision released Friday. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion, citing the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable government searches.

Supreme Court: Foreign Government Submissions Are Not Binding on US Courts

On June 14, Justice Ginsberg, writing for a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court, reversed a 2016 opinion by the Second Circuit and held that a foreign government's interpretation of its own law is not binding on U.S. courts. The case, In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation , dates back to 2005 and 2006, when U.S. vitamin C purchasers brought allegations against Chinese manufacturers claiming that the manufacturers had agreed to fix the price and supply of vitamin C exported to the United States, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because it violated his religious beliefs. In the opinion issued by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court disagreed with a Colorado court's previous ruling that the gay couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, had been discriminated against based on sexual orientation.

The New Yorker Recommends: The Instructive Pleasures of “RBG”

When you purchase something using affiliate links on our site, The New Yorker may earn a portion of the sales revenue, which helps to support our journalism. The idea of going to see a documentary about a Supreme Court Justice was not, for me, immediately appealing.

Divided Supreme Court sides with businesses over workers

A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that businesses can prohibit their workers from banding together in disputes over pay and conditions in the workplace, a decision that affects an estimated 25 million non-unionized employees. With the court's five conservative members in the majority, the justices held that individual employees can be forced to use arbitration, not the courts, to air complaints about wages and overtime.

Supreme Court backs employers over workers in first of two major labor cases

The Supreme Court dealt an initial blow to millions of workers Monday in the first of two major disputes this term pitting corporations against labor unions. In a 5-4 decision controlled by the court's conservative wing , the justices ruled that employers have the right to insist that labor disputes get resolved individually, rather than allowing workers to join together in class action lawsuits.