Tag: Appeals Courts

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a Catholic law school professor's nomination for a federal appeals court along party lines, after last month's hearing when Democrats grilled her over her faith. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Catholic law professor’s judicial nomination advances along partisan lines

Ryan Lovelace · October 5, 2017 4:36 pm

Court said it is a "very wasteful use of limited judicial resources" to consider a case about a regulation that the Trump administration is planning to rescind. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)

Energy and Environment

Appeals court throws out case on Obama fracking rule, citing Trump repeal effort

John Siciliano · September 21, 2017 7:11 pm

"I regret the specific timing of today's hearing, a day when many colleagues particularly some on my side of the aisle could not be here," Coons said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats grumble about working Wednesday while the Senate is out

Ryan Lovelace · September 20, 2017 5:00 pm

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, in an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, detailed some of his thinking about the Clean Power Plan, former President Barack Obama's signature climate change regulation for existing power plants, and the Waters of the United States rule. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Scott Pruitt vs. the legal maze to clean power and water

John Siciliano · September 18, 2017 4:01 am

The Trump administration has no opinion on the legislation at this point, said a senior Energy Department official at the hearing. (Flickr)

Energy and Environment

FERC overrules New York regulators to allow construction of natural gas pipeline

Josh Siegel · September 15, 2017 9:02 pm

The 10-day ad campaign takes aim at Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin for their questioning of Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Judicial Crisis Network targets Democrats it says ‘attack a woman for her Catholic faith’

Ryan Lovelace · September 15, 2017 10:00 am

The right-leaning group targets the Minnesota senator for seeking to block David Stras, President Trump's nominee to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Judicial Crisis Network in new ad attacks ‘petty’ Al Franken for opposing Trump judicial nominee

Ryan Lovelace · September 13, 2017 3:43 pm

Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Dick Durbin of Illinois forced a litmus test on When Amy Coney Barnett, a law professor from Notre Dame. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Have Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin made 2018 the year of the religious litmus test?

Philip Wegmann · September 12, 2017 2:09 pm

Trump also named 13 other individuals to federal judgeships on lower courts in Alabama, Washington, D.C., Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, and Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump names 3 new federal appeals court nominees

Ryan Lovelace · September 7, 2017 2:48 pm

A federal appeals court gave new life to a lawsuit filed by Alabama death row inmates against the state government's lethal injection protocol. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

11th Circuit breathes new life into Alabama lethal injection challenge

Ryan Lovelace · September 5, 2017 3:02 pm

A major part of President Trump's infrastructure agenda suffered a setback when a federal appeals court ruled that regulators must examine the effects of climate change when they review proposed natural gas pipelines.

Energy and Environment

Trump’s pipeline agenda takes a hit with court ruling

Josh Siegel · September 5, 2017 4:01 am

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed former third-party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein yet another loss this week. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Jill Stein, Gary Johnson lose in court challenge of exclusion from presidential debates

Ryan Lovelace · August 30, 2017 3:10 pm