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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 …
Supreme Court justices hear key Electoral College cases
An audio feed of Supreme Court oral arguments in Trump v. Mazars and Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG, dealing with the subpoenas from the US Congress to obtain US President Donald Trumps financial records, is heard via a teleconference due to COVID-19, known as coronavirus, as seen on a laptop in Washington, DC, May 12, …
Supreme Court broadcasts oral arguments for first time
Crowds line up outside the Supreme Court as it resumes oral arguments at the start of its new term in Washington, U.S., October 7, 2019. Mary F. Calvert | Reuters The Supreme Court will broadcast an oral argument live on Monday for the first time in its 230-year history. C-SPAN will livestream the audio on …
Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’s ‘cancer-free’ after flurry of health issues
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks onstage at the Fourth Annual Berggruen Prize Gala. Eugene Gologursky Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she no longer has cancer, following a flurry of recent health scares. “I’m cancer-free. That’s good,” she said in an interview late Tuesday with CNN. Last year, Ginsburg underwent treatment for what likely …
A world of walls: the brutish power of man-made barriers | Art and design
The southern border wall, as it is euphemistically known, between the United States and Mexico has come to represent much more than a line on a map. Since the 2016 US presidential campaign, it has assumed the status of an all-consuming ideological crusade for Donald Trump. Propelled into power on spittle-flecked chants of “Build the …
Trump says ‘absolutely moving forward’ with census citizenship question
President Donald Trump on Wednesday branded as “fake” news reports that the Commerce Department would drop its plans to ask people if they are U.S. citizens on the 2020 census — despite the fact that officials in his own administration had said the question will not be asked. Trump’s claim came a day after Commerce Secretary Wilbur …
