Tag: Supreme Court

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appears at an event.

Beltway Confidential

John Roberts biography still leaves Obamacare case as a travesty

Quin Hillyer · February 5, 2019 9:00 am

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's trainer is releasing a "fun, fully illustrated exercise book" on the justice's workout routine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Ginsburg makes first public appearance since surgery for lung cancer

Diana Stancy Correll · February 5, 2019 3:27 am

In this undated photo provided by the Misssouri State Senate, the gavel of the Missouri Senate is displayed resting on the Senate dais in Jefferson City, Missouri. The gavel was last seen on March 18, 2016, and Senate leaders fear that someone may have stolen it.

Beltway Confidential

Lower court judges should already be restrained from national rulings

Quin Hillyer · February 4, 2019 9:58 pm

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, center, answers questions from the media.

Beltway Confidential

The Washington Post went all-in on Brett Kavanaugh but spiked a similar story about a Democrat

Becket Adams · February 4, 2019 9:24 pm

Justice Alito blocks Louisiana abortion law, citing need for more time

Kimberly Leonard · February 1, 2019 11:50 pm

President Trump may have endorsed the idea of short-term compromise, but he still backs the concept of the healthcare reform package that failed narrowly this summer. That bill would have given states Medicaid funding in the form of block grants. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump predicts Obamacare will be ‘terminated’ through Texas lawsuit

Kimberly Leonard · February 1, 2019 1:05 pm

Thousands of abortion opponents march in the 15th annual Walk for Life across downtown San Francisco.

Beltway Confidential

2020 is a utilitarian election

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 30, 2019 10:32 pm

Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in Washington. Her attorney's Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich watch.

California congresswoman nominates Kavanaugh accuser for Profile in Courage Award

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · January 30, 2019 1:40 am

Amy Hagstrom Miller, second from right, founder of Whole Woman's Health, a Texas women's health clinic that provides abortions, leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, with Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup, far right, as the justices struck down the strict Texas anti-abortion restriction law known as HB2. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state. The case is Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.

Supreme Court asked to halt Louisiana abortion restrictions

Kimberly Leonard · January 29, 2019 4:46 pm

Beltway Confidential

Left-wing group tries to raise money with a Supreme Court-packing fantasy

Philip Wegmann · January 23, 2019 10:09 pm

From left, Supreme Court Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Elena Kagan speak in the audience before President Trump arrives for a Medal of Freedom ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.

Washington Secrets

Trump nominates 51 judges at once, enough to fill one-third of all court vacancies

Paul Bedard · January 23, 2019 5:50 pm

FILE - This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states. But not a single Republican attorney general has sued _ not even from states with large immigrant populations.

Trump administration to ask Supreme Court to take up census case, bypassing appeals court

Melissa Quinn · January 22, 2019 9:43 pm