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Sep 28 2018
News
Kavanaugh vote: Senate Republican leaders agree to new FBI background investigation of Kavanaugh
Senate Republican leaders agreed Friday to reopen the FBI background investigation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh after two key Republicans suggested they would not vote to confirm him to
Washington PostSep 28 2018
News
‘Look at me when I’m talking to you!’: Crying protester confronts Jeff Flake in Capitol elevator
After Sen. Jeff Flake’s announcement that he would, in fact, vote to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the emotional debate over the confirmation spilled into
Washington PostSep 24 2018
News
Michael Avenatti Implicates Kavanaugh in Pattern of Teenage Sexual Assault
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, says he is “aware of significant evidence” that Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh participated in multiple gang rapes while in high school.
New York MagazineDec 24 2013
News
Same-Sex-Marriage Supporters Applaud Ohio and Utah Rulings
A federal judge in Utah found that gay marriages could proceed while under appeal and a judge in Ohio struck down part of the states ban on such marriages.
New York Times (News)Oct 18 2020
Opinion
Amy Coney Barrett’s Silence Is an Expression of Extremism
On the second day of Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for a seat on the Supreme Court, she and Cory Booker had an exchange that indicated that both the Court and the country are nearing a precarious point. Did she believe, Booker asked, that “every President should make a commitment, unequivocally and resolutely, to the peaceful transfer of power?” Barrett raised her
The New YorkerSep 21 2020
Opinion
Why This Pro-Life Conservative Is Voting for Biden
Since I announced publicly that I will be voting for Joe Biden in November, I’ve received a few communications from puzzled readers. “How can you, a supposedly pro-life woman, support someone who believes in killing babies?” Others say, “What do you not like about Trump’s record? The tax cuts? The record jobs numbers? The conservative judges?” One reader summed things up with “I used to like
The BulwarkSep 17 2018
News
GOP Senators Say Committee Should Hear Kavanaugh's Accuser's Side of Story Before Taking a Vote
Two GOP Senators have come forward and called for the vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court to be delayed until after his accuser speaks with members of the Judiciary Committee.
New York Post (News)Sep 21 2020
News
Trump says he’s ‘counting on the federal court system’ to declare winner on election night — before many ballots are tallied
President Donald Trump said during a campaign rally over the weekend that he is “counting on the federal court system”—which he has packed with right-wing judges—to declare a winner of the presidential election on the night of November 3, a statement that one journalist described as an “outright pledge to use the courts to stop votes from being counted.”
“We’re counting on the federal
AlterNetJun 26 2020
News
Supreme Court Sides With Trump On Fast-Track Deportations
The Supreme Court rejected an ACLU-backed bid to slow deportations Thursday, dealing a major victory to the Trump administration and denying some asylum seekers the right to make their case to a federal judge.
A Sri Lankan migrant named Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, who was apprehended just 25 yards from the southern border after entering the country illegally, is at the center of the case
Washington Free BeaconOct 14 2020
Fact Check
Did Amy Coney Barrett Say “Being Called the N-Word Does Not Constitute a Hostile Work Environment”?
In October 2020, as the U.S. Senate began confirmation hearings for U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court opening created after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, social media users began circulating a bit of text purportedly reproducing a quotation from Barrett in which she declared that “Being called the N-word does not
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