The president appears to have enough support in the US Senate to win approval for his nominee.
The president appears to have enough support in the US Senate to win approval for his nominee.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that a nominee from President Trump would get a vote in his chamber, while leading Democrats, including the party’s presidential nominee, Joe Biden, said a vote should not take place until the next president takes office.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) couldn't let his statement on the death of SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to sit on its own, but made clear
President Donald Trump said Saturday evening that he will choose a candidate to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat next week and his candidate will be a woman.
President Trump said he will announce his nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by the end of the week. Trump told Fox and Friends on Monday that he expects to make his Supreme Court selection public on Friday or Saturday. He said he wants to wait to announce his nominee until the
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death thrust the Supreme Court into the center of the presidential race just six weeks before Election Day, and with voting under way in some states, reshaping the showdown between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Democrats have already begun channeling their pain at losing RBG into action, pouring a record-breaking number of donations to Democratic candidates and causes, writes Dean Obeidallah. “The evidence shows that voters want to honor RBGs’ legacy by supporting Democrats to defeat Trump and his GOP enablers. For now, those donors seem to be winning the day — big time.”
President Donald Trump is taking a far different approach than he did in the 2016 campaign after nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg."Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett heads into her confirmation hearings...
While the timing is fluid, the president said on Saturday that a nominee would be announced "next week."
Former President Jimmy Carter harshly criticized newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, calling him “unfit” to serve on the court. Speaking to a class at Emory University in Atlanta on Wednesday, Carter said that Kavanaugh’s behavior during his confirmation hearings demonstrated that his appointment was “a very serious mistake,” according to Emory’s independent, student-run newspaper, The…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she regrets criticizing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Clashes ensued immediately as senators delivered their opening statements during the first day of Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing for what's bound to be a controversial week.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has sparked a battle over the future of the Supreme Court. Against that backdrop, a nominee faces prescribed steps towards a confirmation vote in the Senate.
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Senate Republicans plan to move the nomination quickly and Democrats have little chance to block the nominee, but a bitter Senate battle looms in the weeks ahead.
What are the political implications of Ruth Bader's Ginsburg's death? Justice Ginsburg's death just over six weeks before the presidential election has placed a keyspotlight on the court's vacancy. President Trump, on September 26, 2020, announced he had chosen Amy Coney Barrett as his pick to fill ...
Late Wednesday, AL.Com published a story with a headline that read like a poorly thought-out Onion headline.
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris emphasized babies would be cared for under her health care plan, despite the fact that her plan would fund abortion. Harris said Wednesday night that her health care plan would provide care to Americans under a Medicare-for-all system, emphasizing that this would care for the 4 million babies born every […]
