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27 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
When Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, they piously announced that the American People should have a voice in selecting his successor, denying a hearing to Barack Obama’s nominee, the center-left Judge Merrick Garland. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 4:42 am
However, a formal recommendation has not yet been made to Attorney General Merrick Garland, who would ultimately approve or reject such a move, according to people familiar with the matter. [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 6:42 am
Rubio’s Demise Marks the Last Gasp of the Republican RebootWashington Post – Robert Costa and Philip Rucker | Published: 3/15/2016 U.S. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 1:08 pm
They can hold hearings and vote against the nomination, as the Senate did when it rejected President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 1:51 pm
Several judges appointed by Democrats sided with Kavanaugh in some of the decisions listed above, including Judges Merrick Garland and Harry Edwards in Metroil. [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 9:05 pm
”[10] Hence, as even proto-corporate social responsibility advocate Merrick Dodd admitted in 1932, Dodge represented the orthodox understanding at that time of the law governing directors’ duties. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 9:20 am
President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, was denied consideration last year. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
Unlike the approach for the plaintiffs in one of the two pending cases, we would then not need a formula and a cutoff for “wasted votes” that would trigger judicial remedies.To be clear, I think that those plaintiffs should win their case, and there is nothing wrong (notwithstanding Chief Justice Roberts’s description of their theory as “sociological gobbledygook”) with the idea of using statistical evidence to determine when partisan redistricting has gone too… [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 4:46 am
However, some Trump opponents have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to reconsider the issue now that Trump is no longer president. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 4:56 am
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1 Apr 2016, 10:22 am
Of course, if Merrick Garland were confirmed, it would (absent recusals) end the risk of such stalemates, but that is not the only advantage of his joining the Court: during Senate courtesy calls this week, Garland revealed that, if confirmed, he would become the first male Justice to wear a jabot. [read post]
24 Jun 2024, 10:37 am
As an added bonus for Trump, this delay comes in the form of conversation his lawyers want to keep in the public eye: Attorney General Merrick Garland’s role in supervising the special counsel and the money that funds Smith’s prosecution. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 9:46 am
ShareJustice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 7:49 am
The late Justice Antonin Scalia and the vacancy he left behind continued to loom large over the justices’ summer appearances, as his colleagues were often called upon to speak about his legacy, their memories of serving with him, and their thoughts on adjusting to an eight-member Supreme Court. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 11:38 am
Roberts, the majority dismissed a challenge to the use of the phrase “so help me God” in presidential inaugural ceremonies. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 4:36 am
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the odds of Russian President Vladimir Putin deploying chemical and nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine are low, despite warnings coming from the White House and its allies. [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 3:00 am
Hank Johnson are demanding that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts detail what, if anything, the court has done to respond to recent allegations of a leak of the outcome of a major case the justices considered several years ago. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 1:36 pm
Eisen in the New York Times and John Nichols at The Nation, and Democrats in Congress, to conclude that Kavanaugh is in the bag for putting the kibosh on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 3:00 am
Richard Durbin called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to fire Carvajal after an investigation by the Associated Press found the Bureau of Prisons was a “hotbed of abuse, graft, and corruption [that] has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am
The following is a series of questions prompted by the forthcoming publication of Michael Bobelian’s “Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court” (Schaffner Press, 2019). [read post]
