Tag: Supreme Court

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Brett Kavanaugh’s Change of Heart | New York Times

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President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee once made the case for impeaching a president. He now says that was a mistake.

There’s some interesting philosophical question here about whether a sitting president should be “distracted” by lawsuits. I can maybe see the case for knucklehead misdemeanors, but for higher level crimes like collusion with foreign countries or crimes that helped get them into office in the first place? Definitely not. If we have to err on the side of caution, then prosecute, prosecute, prosecute. The president is not above the law, they’re bound to execute on it and this doesn’t get them away from prosecuting themselves.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Trump Picks Brett Kavanaugh | New York Times

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Given Judge Kavanaugh’s conservative record and the political math in the Senate, what happens now?

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Trump’s Supreme Court Finalists | New York Times

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With the president expected to announce his choice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, we look at the top candidates.

👓 In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Trump for comment about 'Obama judge' | NBC News

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The president later responded on Twitter, defending his attacks on the Ninth Circuit for ruling against him in an asylum case.

👓 Opinion | Trump’s Appointment of the Acting Attorney General Is Unconstitutional | New York Times

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The president is evading the requirement to seek the Senate’s advice and consent for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and the person who will oversee the Mueller investigation.

🎧 “The Daily”: The Accusation Against Brett Kavanaugh | New York Times

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The Supreme Court nominee faces sexual assault allegations that throw his confirmation, once seen as inevitable, into turmoil.

👓 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized After Falling, Fracturing 3 Ribs | NPR

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The 85-year-old justice fell in her office at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday evening. She has been hospitalized for "observation and treatment."
After the last few days, this is the type of news that could give a person a heart attack. Democrats should have done far more to swing back the Senate.

👓 O’Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal | NPR

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Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious. So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s. When 19-year-old Sandra Day entered Stanford Law School in 1949, her frequent seatmate was 26-year-old Bill Rehnquist, attending Stanford on the GI Bill. The two shared their equally meticulous class notes and eventually were dating regularly. But by December of their second year, she broke up with him while somehow retaining what she called their "study buddy" relationship; she even entered the moot-court competition with Rehnquist, and the pair finished second.

🎧 The Daily: Why the A.C.L.U. Wants to Be More Like the N.R.A. | New York Times

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We speak to Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, about the group’s major shift in strategy following the election of President Trump.

👓 The Harvard Trial Doesn’t Matter | The Atlantic

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The lawyers challenging the university are testing out their arguments to see which ones stick ahead of a potential appeal to the Supreme Court.

🎧 The Daily: A Supreme Court With Justice Kavanaugh | New York Times

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Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh takes his place on a Supreme Court whose reputation has suffered significant damage from the battle over his confirmation.

🎧 The Daily: What the F.B.I. Found (and Didn’t Find) | New York Times

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Republicans and Democrats clashed over the agency’s report on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, mirroring a nation as divided as ever over the Supreme Court nominee.

📺 Brett Kavanaugh's SCOTUS nomination | Washington Week | PBS

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A partisan battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court dominated Washington this week. The panelists discussed how the nomination process got to this point, along with what this weekend's confirmation vote could like.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Susan Collins on Roe v. Wade and the Next Justice | New York Times

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The Republican from Maine is among few senators willing to break from their parties on major issues — and who may decide the makeup of the Supreme Court.\

She’s usually pretty sound and logical, but I don’t suspect she’s actually going to stand up given the current political climate.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Kavanaugh’s Classmates Speak Out | New York Times

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Former acquaintances of the Supreme Court nominee say that the image he’s been presenting doesn’t quite match the Brett Kavanaugh they knew in school.

It would certainly seem that Kavanaugh has deliberately lied and misled the Senate on his background and drinking. As a job interview he has failed spectacularly and can’t possibly be the best person for this job regardless of his other qualifications.