Tag: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court ended its 2013-14 term with the most unanimous rulings and fewest split decisions in decades, suggesting at first glance an easing of the sharp and often bitter ideological divisions between the justices in recent years.

Beltway Confidential

This ‘hate group’ keeps winning First Amendment cases

Nicole Russell · October 19, 2018 6:42 pm

Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. If confirmed, Kavanaugh would fortify the high court's conservative majority, and spotlight the rightward march of the federal judiciary under Trump and the GOP-controlled Senate.

New York man arrested for murder threats against two senators over Kavanaugh confirmation

Melissa Quinn · October 19, 2018 6:32 pm

Maryland asks Supreme Court to uphold its generic drug anti-gouging law

Robert King · October 19, 2018 5:33 pm

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.

One-third of adults believe Kavanaugh was lying during sworn testimony

Diana Stancy Correll · October 19, 2018 3:19 pm

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Washington Secrets

Notebook: ‘Vegan’ Supreme Court cafe, Stirewalt book, Cruz hamster found, Ingraham’s pumpkins

Paul Bedard · October 19, 2018 2:04 pm

Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

With Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, the media has completely lost interest in his accusers’ stories

Becket Adams · October 18, 2018 8:03 pm

Graham slams Feinstein for support of new Kavanaugh investigation: ‘One kick of the mule was not enough’

Naomi Lim · October 18, 2018 3:19 am

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., gestures while speaking during a debate with California Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, Wednesday in San Francisco.

Dianne Feinstein supports new investigation into Kavanaugh allegations

Diana Stancy Correll · October 17, 2018 10:24 pm

Hillary Clinton says press rights and free speech are âunder open assaultâ under Donald Trump, and has likened his administration to an authoritarian regime.

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton accidentally reveals liberal illogic — or worse

Quin Hillyer · October 17, 2018 4:22 pm

In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference, in Manama, Bahrain.

Beltway Confidential

President Trump’s fallacious equivocation of Kavanaugh and Khashoggi

Tiana Lowe Doescher · October 17, 2018 12:41 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., listen to the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.

John Roberts emphasizes judiciary’s independence after Kavanaugh confirmation fight

Melissa Quinn · October 17, 2018 12:16 am

Lawrence Bacow speaks after being introduced Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass., as the 29th president of Harvard University. Bacow, former president of Tufts University and a leader-in-residence at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, assumes the office July 1. He will succeed Drew Faust, 70, who has served in the post for more than a decade as Harvard's first female president.

Eye on the Supreme Court? Harvard affirmative action case could wind up before justices

Melissa Quinn · October 16, 2018 9:13 pm