House panel refers former Trump Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for criminal prosecution
The House Natural Resources Committee announced its first-ever criminal referral to the Department of Justice on Wednesday, asking it to investigate whether Mike Ingram, an Arizona real estate developer and a campaign donor to Donald Trump, bribed public officials during Trump’s tenure as president, including then-Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt.
news.yahoo.comJackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice
The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.
Sotomayor, Barrett discuss their lives in Supreme Court’s spotlight
As the Senate moved closer to confirming the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice, the court’s first Latina told a university audience that the spotlight at times is harsh. But she was asked several questions about diversity, and what role her Latina heritage and humble upbringing played in her decision-making on the Supreme Court. I have worked as a district court judge, a circuit court judge. The Supreme Court is still closed to the public because of the pandemic, but this week saw the justices venturing out. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, where other justices have preceded her.
washingtonpost.comDemocrats demand Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas recuse himself from key 2020 election, Capitol riot cases over wife's push to overturn Biden win
The letter followed news that Virginia Thomas urged then-President Trump's top aide Mark Meadows to try to overturn President Joe Biden's election win.
cnbc.comReport: Justice Thomas' wife urged overturning 2020 election
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election — furthering then-President Donald Trump’s lies that the free and fair vote was marred by nonexistent fraud.
Jackson heading for likely confirmation despite GOP darts
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced down a barrage of Republican questioning about her sentencing of criminal defendants on Wednesday, as her history-making bid to join the Supreme Court veered from lofty constitutional questions to attacks on her motivations as a judge.
Comments renew debate over adoption as abortion alternative
Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then offer the baby for adoption. The reason, say people familiar with unintended pregnancies, is that even in those circumstances, a powerful bond is likely to form between the mother-to-be and the developing baby — and to vastly complicate any decision to put the newborn up for adoption.
news.yahoo.comWhat the Supreme Court justices have said about abortion and Roe v. Wade
On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider a Mississippi law that could overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion. Here's what we know about where each justice stands on the issue.
washingtonpost.comMark Meadows got a call during Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing because a low-level HUD staffer liked a Taylor Swift Instagram post urging people to vote: book
"We really can't have our people liking posts promoting Joe Biden," Meadows told Andrew Hughes, a HUD official, per Jonathan Karl's forthcoming book.
news.yahoo.comTo protect the supreme court’s legitimacy, a conservative justice should step down
If presidents do not get to replace justices in an election year, then Coney Barrett’s confirmation is illegitimate; if presidents do, then Gorsuch’s is illegitimate. You can’t have it both ways ‘In separate remarks this month, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas both sought to assure the public that, in Coney Barret’s words, “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks”.’ Photograph: Reuters In Planned Parenthood v Casey, a landmark decision from 1992, the US supreme court memora
news.yahoo.comJustices Amy Coney Barrett and Stephen Breyer want to convince you that the Supreme Court isn't political, but experts say 'it's naive to think people will' believe them
"If the justices have to defend themselves from being partisan, that's already a problem in and of itself," one expert told Insider.
news.yahoo.comHaiti prosecutor asks judge to charge, investigate Prime Minister in slaying
Haiti's chief prosecutor on Tuesday asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the slaying of the president and asked officials to bar him from leaving the country, a move that could further destabilize a country that seemed to be calming after turmoil that followed the assassination and a recent major earthquake.
news.yahoo.comStory Telling: Biden speaks his record
Since the early days of the Presidential campaign of 2020, a quiet speculation swirled about then candidate Joe Biden’s mental fitness for office. Now eight months into office, that quiet speculation has turned into serious doubt about the judgment of President Joe Biden. A history of plagiarism, gaffes, and informal anecdotes that proved untrue, has now combined with serious questions about cognitive decline - all suggesting that someone other than Joe Biden is pulling the strings at the White House. Doug McKelway reports.
news.yahoo.comBarrett concerned about public perception of Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett expressed concerns Sunday that the public may increasingly see the court as a partisan institution. Justices must be “hyper vigilant to make sure they’re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too,” Barrett said at a lecture hosted by the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center. Introduced by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who founded the center and played a key role in pushing through her confirmation in the last days of the Trump administration, Barrett spoke at length about her desire for others to see the Supreme Court as nonpartisan.
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