US Senate
Graham announces he won’t vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination
CNN — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina announced Thursday that he will not vote for President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite supporting her nomination to a previous Senate-confirmed position last year. “I will oppose her and I will vote no,” Graham said in a speech on the Senate floor. …
‘I’m saving her for Ginsburg’: who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s likely supreme court pick? | Law
When Christine Baglow moved from New Orleans to South Bend, Indiana, two years ago, she found herself at a dinner party with a woman with a formidable resume: former supreme court clerk, professor at Notre Dame Law School, a judge on the US district court of appeals for the seventh circuit. The woman was Amy …
‘I will fight!’: mourners’ vow at supreme court vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg | US news
On a pavement across the street from the supreme court, school teacher Amanda Stafford chalked the words carefully: “That’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.” It was a quotation from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a justice more renowned for her dissents than her majority opinions, including on the Bush …
Supreme court: Democrats rally in bid to stop Trump filling Ginsburg’s seat | US news
The resistance movement forged in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency now faces perhaps its greatest challenge: keeping open a supreme court vacancy that, if filled, will cement a conservative majority for decades to come. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s most senior and celebrated liberal, set the stage for a furious …
US Senate leaders reach deal with White House on $2tn coronavirus package | World news
US Senate leaders have reached a deal with Trump administration officials on a nearly $2tn stimulus package to help rescue the American economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic as Donald Trump considers easing restrictions aimed at combating the contagion. After days of around-the-clock negotiations between senators and administration officials, a bipartisan compromise was struck over …
