SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday [3-21-17] made it more difficult for the president to quickly fill vacant top government jobs in a case centered on the appointment powers of the executive. In a 6-to-2 ruling, the court limited the president’s ability to put certain high-level officials in positions in an acting […]
Category: Supreme Court
3/13/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Corporate tool. Enemy of disabled people. Deferential to the privileged, including the man who chose him. One week before Judge Neil M. Gorsuch is to sit for his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Democrats have zeroed in on their most prominent planned line of attack: Judge Gorsuch’s rulings have favored the powerful […]
3/6/2017
LEGAL/LGBTQ/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Supreme Court avoided a ruling on transgender rights by sending a closely watched case involving bathroom access at a Virginia high school back to a lower court on Monday [3-6-17] after President Donald Trump rolled back protections for transgender students. Lawyers for a transgender student named Gavin Grimm, who […]
2/24/2017
SUPREME COURT/RUTH BADER GINSBURG: “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg indicated Thursday that she intends to remain on the Supreme Court as long as she can, predicting that the “pendulum” of American politics will eventually swing back toward the center. ‘I will do this job as long as I can do it full steam,’ Ginsburg, 83, said […]
2/16/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “The Senate hearing on Judge Neil M. Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court will begin on March 20, the Judiciary Committee said on Thursday, setting the stage for one of the most contested judicial confirmations in a generation… Despite the judge’s strong legal credentials, some Democrats are likely to oppose him, […]
2/9/2017
NEIL GORSUCH/SUPREME COURT: “Sen.Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie),now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 9, 2017 06:57am […]
2/9/2017
SEAN SPICER/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “White House officials insisted on Thursday that Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, was not referring to Mr. Trump’s recent denigration of judges when he said privately that he was disheartened by attacks on the courts. Mr. Trump said on Twitter that the nominee’s remarks had been […]
2/5/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/NEIL GORSUCH: “When President Donald Trump introduced his Supreme Court pick on live television last week, he said Neil Gorsuch had ‘demonstrated a commitment to helping the less fortunate’ by working in the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project and the Harvard Defenders. His affiliation with these volunteer programs—which offer law school students […]
2/4/2017
NEIL GORSUCH/SUPREME COURT: “E[leven] years ago, Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s choice to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, sailed through the Senate by a voice vote when George W. Bush appointed him to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. This time, with the ideological tilt of America’s highest court hanging in the balance and […]
2/3/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT: “Senate Republicans are in the middle of pulling off one of the great political heists in American history: the theft of a seat on the United States Supreme Court. And this theft, if successful, will have an enormous impact on the integrity of the Supreme Court and major issues from reproductive and labor […]
2/1/2017
NEIL GORSUCH/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT: [Reporter: “As you pointed out last night, Judge Gorsuch was confirmed on a unanimous voice vote in 2006. Now, a number of Democrats say they are going to oppose him. What would you say to those Democrats? And would you encourage Senator McConnell to invoke the nuclear option if he feels he […]