Republicans are in for a rude awakening if they think it’s smart politics to steal another Supreme Court seat right before the election.
The Senate campaign of Mark Kelly in Arizona has had to add more phone bank shifts because Democrats are so fired up over the Supreme Court.
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t make good on Democrats’ threat to expand the number of Supreme Court seats if they take back the White House and Senate following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Democrats are great about talking big, but we’ll see if he and…
Fox News personality says opposition to President Donald Trump replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is little more than a “hissy fit” from the president’s left-wing critics. “The lies started the day the president came down those stairs at Trump Tower, the esclator. And right now what we’re dealing with…
Pushing through a Supreme Court nominee could also bring down Mitch McConnell’s Republican Senate majority.
As Trump and McConnell move quickly to fill Ginsburg’s seat, GOP senators aren’t even trying to hide what their endgame is.
The polling consistently shows that the American people want Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, to choose Ginsburg’s replacement.
Trump plans to move forward on selecting a nominee to replace Ginsburg with just 45 days until the November election.
This term’s Supreme Court rulings prove that America’s democracy is destined to survive the incompetent dictator-wannabe currently occupying the White House. Without question, the rule of law and democracy won. The unanimous finding among Supreme Court Justices across the ideological spectrum used various methods of legal analysis to find that the president is not above…
In a 5-4 decision that Supreme Court, with Chief Justice Roberts as the deciding vote, struck down a Louisiana abortion clinic law.
In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump acted illegally when he tried to end DACA.
Trump’s lawyers were in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday arguing that he is too busy to cooperate with any type of investigation.
The Supreme Court announced it would postpone arguments for late March and early April because of the coronavirus pandemic. No new dates for the postponed arguments have been set at this time. Among the high-profile cases to be postponed was the March 31 argument on President Donald Trump’s refusal to release his financial records, including…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is preventing President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing its Migrant Protection Protocols, otherwise known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, for asylum-seekers to stay in the country. Restrictions remain in place until March 11 for review by the Supreme Court. The ruling only applies to Arizona and…
Chief Justice John Roberts has rebuked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for “threatening statements” against two conservative justices. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said, adding that the justices “will continue to…
Many Americans hate the Islamic Republic of Iran because it is a theocracy, but they likely are unaware that America is now more similar to Iran than they want to believe. The recent Supreme Court ruling putting tens-of-millions of Americans at risk of succumbing to a global pandemic is due to a group of Christians…
Biden was asked at a town hall event in Iowa whether he would nominate the former president, and he was fully on board with the idea.
The Federalist Society’s black tie attendees were blasted with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s disturbing testimony about Justice Kavanaugh’s sexual assault as they entered the annual gala at which Kavanaugh was the keynote speaker.
Trump is in for a rude awakening when even the conservative SCOTUS justices will have no choice but to remind him that there is still a Constitution.
Trump called for mass resignations at The Times for reporting on the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations and the Trump-Russia campaign collusion in 2016.
The FBI only interviewed nine of the ten witnesses they were allowed, and they didn’t bother with witnesses who confirmed other accusations against Kavanaugh. The FBI also didn’t use the entire week.
The New York Times did a longer investigation than the FBI and found that Brett Kavanaugh lied about sexually assaulting women in college.
While John Paul Stevens may have passed away on Tuesday, his warnings about Donald Trump’s abuse of presidential power should live on.
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 (Justices Ginsburg and Gorsuch dissenting) to uphold the “dual sovereignty” doctrine. That means that state law is separate and independent from federal law in relation to “double jeopardy,” that is, being putting on trial twice for the same act. Which means in turn that Trump loyalists charged and…
The Supreme Court on Friday blocked lower court rulings ordering Republican legislators in Michigan and Ohio to redraw U.S. congressional maps ahead of the 2020 elections, dealing a blow to Democrats who had argued that the electoral districts were intended to unlawfully diminish their political clout.
“If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
The U.S. Constitution lays the ‘sole power’ of impeachment before the House of Representatives and the Senate.
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic toward a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a plan opponents have called a Republican effort to deter immigrants from taking part in the population count. During an…
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday rejected a bid by gun rights activists to put on hold a ban by President Donald Trump’s administration on “bump stock” gun attachments that enable semi-automatic weapons to be fired rapidly. Justice Sonia Sotomayor has not yet acted on another similar request….
Sen. Susan Collins’ opposition is just the latest signal that Donald Trump’s fake and illegal emergency declaration is in trouble.
Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s recent vote to restrict women’s rights has exposed Republican Sen. Susan Collins as a fraud.
The court on a 5-4 vote granted an emergency application by Shreveport-based abortion provider Hope Medical Group for Women to block the Republican-backed law from going into effect while litigation continues.
President Donald Trump urged lawmakers in his State of the Union address to put new limits on abortion, but partisan division in the U.S. Congress means the Supreme Court likely will set the agenda on the divisive issue, as it has for decades.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an unknown foreign government-owned company that is contesting a subpoena issued by a grand jury in a sealed case possibly linked to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election to file its appeal under seal.
At issue was whether the CFPB’s sole director possesses too much power in violation of the authority the U.S. Constitution gives a president to appoint and remove certain federal officials. A ruling in favor of the bank could have allowed a president to fire the agency’s director for any reason.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first absence from the bench extended into a second day on Tuesday as the 85-year-old jurist continued her recovery from lung cancer surgery at home. Although Ginsburg did not attend the oral arguments, she will participate in the cases and rulings by using the briefs…
If Trump makes a last-ditch effort to declare a fake emergency to build his wall, Congress and the courts will be there to sink him almost immediately.
By Andrew Chung and Simon Thompson WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already up and working in her hospital room, a day after breaking three ribs in a fall, her nephew said late on Thursday at the Hollywood premiere of a film about her life. Ginsburg, a ground-breaking liberal…
The U.S. Supreme Court for a second straight year refused on Monday to hear a challenge to California’s limits on carrying handguns in public, dealing another setback to gun rights proponents.
This Saturday morning tantrum from the president shows how desperate he and Republicans in Congress are ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The loss for the administration means it now faces a high-profile examination of U.S. climate change policy during the trial that was due to begin on Oct. 29 in Eugene, Oregon but has since been postponed by the judge.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a bid by Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to reinstate a congressional district map struck down by that state’s top court as unlawfully biased in favor of Republicans.
On Thursday, Newt Gingrich confirmed what most Americans already knew: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a pawn for Donald Trump.
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh spent a collegial first day on the bench as a U.S. Supreme Court justice on Tuesday that contrasted sharply with the venom of his confirmation process, taking an active role in arguments alongside his eight new colleagues. Kavanaugh, a veteran of such proceedings after…
With the potential for more evidence and allegations to surface, there will be a permanent cloud over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court seat.
Female opposition to the Republican push to confirm Kavanaugh shot up by double digits since last month, from 42 percent to 55 percent.
It’s easy to be proven innocent when you conduct an investigation that ignores all evidence that could prove any wrongdoing.
Ahead of Saturday’s confirmation vote, Brett Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez shredded U.S. Senators for turning a blind on a sexual assault.
Going forward, the American people would be better served by ignoring this fraud – at least until she’s thrown out in 2020.
Republicans will celebrate their so-called victory on Saturday, but in exactly a month they could regret ever confirming Brett Kavanaugh.
Sen. Coons seems to be making yet another appeal to the same part of Flake that convinced him to have a change of heart last week.
For the first time in over three decades, the Washington Post editorial board is urging the United States Senate to reject a Supreme Court nominee.
It is up to the remaining undecided GOP women in the Senate to step up and show the same political courage that Heitkamp showed on Thursday.
Democratic U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp said on Thursday she would vote against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a radio interview.
If the 2015 version of Brett Kavanaugh was a United States senator, he wouldn’t think twice before voting no on the 2018 version of Brett Kavanaugh.
The letter demonstrates just how unpopular Kavanaugh’s nomination is to people who care most about the court’s integrity.
Despite the fact that Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination should be dead on the Senate floor, Republicans continue to push ahead.
Whenever it looks like Donald Trump and the Republican Party can’t possibly go any lower, they grab shovels and start digging.
By Lawrence Hurley and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Opposition among Americans to Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, has increased in the wake of his testimony last week before a U.S. Senate committee in which he defiantly denied sexual misconduct allegations, Reuters/Ipsos polling data showed on Wednesday. In the latest seven-day average…
By David Alexander and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two moderate Republicans who could be pivotal in determining whether the Senate confirms U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for mocking a woman who has accused the judge of sexual assault. Senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins were among the…
Trump may leave after one or – god forbid – two terms, but if Kavanaugh is placed on the Supreme Court, it’ll be like this president never left at all.
The flurry of new reporting on Monday isn’t only consistent with those claims, but it proves he lied repeatedly under oath.
Not only did Kavanaugh know of the allegations from Ramirez before they went public, but he also personally tried to get potential witnesses to refute them.
Don McGahn, the man who is essentially in charge of pushing through Kavanaugh’s nomination, is telling the FBI who they can interview.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called on the FBI to include the lies Brett Kavanaugh told under oath in their investigation.
Michael Avenatti says Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick won’t be seated on the U.S. Supreme Court if the FBI is allowed to conduct a thorough investigation.
While Kavanaugh had hoped his calendar would exonerate him, it could actually do more damage once the FBI digs into the details of it.
It hasn’t even been 12 hours since Arizona Jeff Flake changed the course of this confirmation process, and the FBI is already digging in.
When the nation was given a chance to hear from the judge on Thursday, he did nothing to shake the recent characterizations of him. He only confirmed them.
By the time she finished detailing her allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, Ford was being widely praised as credible and brave.
Kavanaugh was so focused on defending himself from his accusers that he disqualified himself in another way by demonstrating that he is a political hack.
The three GOP senators – Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Flake – met Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin after the competing testimonies.
Kavanaugh tried to clean up his dismissal of her testimony by promising to watch it at a later time. Like much of what he said, that’s hard to believe.
The GOP is gone. There are no responsible Republicans anymore. There is no moral wing of the party preparing stand up for what’s right.
Ronan Farrow disputed Republican Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley’s claim that Republicans submitted numerous requests to the other women who have made sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, citing Debbie Ramirez’s attorneys who claim that Republicans refused to even speak on the phone with them.
“I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school,” Ford said, reading from her prepared testimony, her voice breaking with emotion.
Senate Judiciary committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley began the hearing into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her by attacking Sen. Dianne Feinstein, trying to discredit other accusers, and interrupting Feinstein’s opening statement.
No matter what happens going forward, the Republican Party has already damaged the reputation of the nation’s highest court.
The new strategy of Trump and Republicans is to attack Michael Avenatti in an effort to distract from the disturbing allegations made by his client.
The new allegations – which took place far more recently than the first three – are bad enough. Worse is that Republicans appear to be blowing them off.
When Trump defends Kavanaugh as he did during his insane press conference, he is in effect defending himself from his own history of sexual assault.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) showed how low he is willing to go be praising Republican male Senators outsourcing their hearing hit job on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to woman Republican Arizona prosecutor.
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley filed a lawsuit to halt the Kavanaugh confirmation process until Kavanaugh’s full record is made available.
The third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, who is being represented by attorney Michael Avenatti, is having her allegation reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Avenatti, the lawyer for yet another woman who has accused Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, delivered the goods on Wednesday, including submitting her sworn statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee and demanding an FBI investigation.
Ari Melber explained how Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee look bad by hiring a female prosecutor to do their dirty work for them in questioning Christine Blasey Ford.
“Another Yale Classmate Rebuts Kavanaugh: was he lying then, or last night on Fox? This classmate is now an award-winning history professor,” The New Yorker‘s Jane Mayer pointed out on Twitter Tuesday morning, after Brett Kavanaugh gave a softball interview to Fox News, during which they let him play the victim while he claimed he…
Bullish fighter Michael Avenatti, who takes on Trump and wins and wins and even if he loses an argument keeps winning the war, was just forced to make his account private on Twitter due to bots and Trump trolls he attributed to his representation of women regarding Kavanaugh. “I was just forced to make my…
This is a bait and switch meant to fool people into thinking his virginity has something to do with these disturbing and credible allegations.
Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins – a pivotal vote for any Supreme Court nominee – called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reach out to Deborah Ramirez.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said on Monday he would not step aside after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct decades ago, with President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans showing no sign of relenting in their push for his Senate confirmation.
Michael Avenatti is not playing. In an email Monday to Mr. Davis, Chief Counsel for Nominations for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Avenatti demanded a response to when members of the committee were aware of similar allegations and why they weren’t investigated.
Sen. Maize Hirono (D-HI) made it clear that an investigation of the accusation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh is coming even if he is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
A woman who has accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify before a Senate panel, her lawyers said on Saturday.
Not only is Brett Kavanaugh the most unpopular SCOTUS nominee in history, but he has already tainted the court without even serving on it.
By Doina Chiacu and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans threatened to go ahead with a Senate panel vote on President Donald Trump‘s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Monday unless a deal could be reached on Friday with the woman accusing him of sexual assault on how and when she will testify….
All ten Judiciary Committee Democrats tried to school Republican Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to “learn from past mistakes,” that is, to ease himself into the modern era where sexual assault is no longer something to be ignored.
In the 1980s, when “The Accused” Brett Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, his mother was working in a state’s attorney’s office where the assault took place.
A lawyer for the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, of sexual assault told a Senate panel on Thursday she would not testify on Monday as Republicans want but would be willing to appear sometime next week if certain terms were met.
Republicans may be sitting on their hands hoping the Brett Kavanaugh controversy blows over, but Democrats are fighting back.
Republicans don’t have any interest in getting to the bottom of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s credible allegations against Brett Kavanaugh because they know it could cost them a Supreme Court seat.