Democrats on Saturday night launched their case against federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, saying support for her confirmation was equivalent to a vote to end the Affordable Care Act. In a rush of statements following Barrett’s Rose Garden introduction, top Democrats put the fate of the law — and its […]
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, the court announced. She was 87. Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court’s liberal wing, consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of […]
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the bench on Monday after missing a day at the court last week due to a stomach bug. Ginsburg, 86, took her seat wearing one of her lace collars. The justices were there to grant new admissions to the bar, not to hear arguments. Justice Stephen Breyer was not present […]
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The Justice Department will present a prestigious award to the team of lawyers who did “work in support of the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh” to the Supreme Court, according to an internal email sent to department staff Friday. The email, obtained by CNN, says Taylor Owings, Douglas Rathbun and Craig Minerva along with others across the […]
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Chief Justice of California Tani Cantil-Sakauye has reportedly renounced her Republican Party registration and re-registered as a no-party-preference voter, citing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Cantil-Sakauye made the comments in a phone interview on Thursday to CALmatters, a nonprofit news organization, saying that she had been thinking about Kavanaugh’s September confirmation hearing. “I’ve been thinking about […]
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In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his team were communicating behind the scenes with friends to refute the claim, according to text messages obtained by NBC News. Kerry Berchem, who was at Yale with both Kavanaugh and […]
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Moments after a key Republican swing senator announced his support for the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Friday morning to delay its vote until 1:30 p.m. ET. The Friday morning announcement by Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., that he would vote in favor of Kavanaugh guaranteed that the […]
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A third woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, her lawyer Michael Avenatti revealed on Twitter Wednesday, just a day before Kavanaugh’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Julie Swetnick says in a written declaration that she observed Kavanaugh “engage in abusive and physically aggressive behavior toward […]
