Tag: Supreme Court

"This job requires service to the people and the law, not to the president," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in her opening remarks at Tuesdays confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Feinstein lectures Sessions to distance from Trump as attorney general

Ryan Lovelace · January 10, 2017 4:29 pm

Apple recently argued to the Supreme Court that you should be just as happy if you got an empty shell of a Galaxy S7 as if you'd gotten a working phone. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

SCOTUS design decision ushers in a New Year and a new era for innovation

Matt Levy · January 10, 2017 5:02 am

Jeff Sessions prepared for a rough-and-tumble hearing

Ryan Lovelace · January 10, 2017 5:01 am

The poll found 52 percent of Americans think the high court should interpret the Constitution as it was originally written, compared to 40 percent of respondents who thought the court should focus on what the "Constitution means now." (iStock photo)

Poll: Majority of Americans want Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution as ‘originally written’

Ryan Lovelace · January 9, 2017 4:14 pm

A Judicial Crisis Network statement singled out Joe Donnelly and Claire McCaskill as vulnerable senators. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Vulnerable Democrats to face $10 million pressure campaign on Supreme Court pick

Ryan Lovelace · January 9, 2017 2:59 pm

A new poll shows that in theory, at least, most people like the idea of replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia with someone who is a lot like him. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Beltway Confidential

Poll: Americans would be fine with another Scalia

David Freddoso · January 9, 2017 1:57 pm

Ad blitz favoring Sessions for attorney general targets vulnerable Democrats

Ryan Lovelace · January 6, 2017 5:01 am

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said on Thursday that he would accept a potential nomination if President-elect Trump named him to the land's highest court. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mike Lee ‘would not say no’ if Trump nominated him for Supreme Court

Anna Giaritelli · January 6, 2017 1:30 am

"I think they should see who they nominate and vote on them." (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Biden to Senate Dems: Give Trump’s Supreme Court nominee a vote

Anna Giaritelli · January 5, 2017 11:52 pm

Chief Justice John Roberts participated in oral arguments before realizing he had a conflict of interest. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Chief Justice Roberts recuses himself from patent case

Ryan Lovelace · January 5, 2017 6:39 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., may not have the votes to block "outside the mainstream" Supreme Court nominees. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

On Supreme Court, Democrats’ pre-election boasts will haunt Schumer

David Freddoso · January 4, 2017 6:03 pm

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to an Indiana ban on robocalls, ruling that the measure didn't violate the First Amendment. (iStock Photo)

Indiana robocall ban doesn’t violate First Amendment, court rules

Ryan Lovelace · January 4, 2017 5:16 pm