I kept a little running tab of questions Amy Coney Barrett said she couldn’t possibly answer without compromising her future Supreme Court tenure. I’m sure I missed a lot of them, but here were six: One: Lindsey Graham asked her if there existed a constitutional right to polygamy. She couldn’t say. Two: Pat Leahy asked if a president could self-pardon. Couldn’t touch that one. Three: Amy Klobuchar asked if she thought mail-in ballots were legitimately democratic. That’s a policy position, I can’t express a view. Four: Richard Blumenthal asked if Obergefell was properly decided and asked her to consider its being […]
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Beset by controversy and lagging in the polls, President Donald Trump this week was handed what his allies described as a gift: an opportunity to recede from the national spotlight while his party scored a win that would rearrange the tectonic plates of government. Trump promptly squandered the opportunity. For weeks, operatives from both political parties have picked up on a defining phenomenon of the presidential race: The more that President Trump has been the center of conversation the worse it has been for him. The pattern held true through the summer and into the fall, and it has contributed to […]
Republicans who control the Senate are rushing to put 48-year-old Barrett on the Supreme Court before the November 3 elections, as if Joe Biden takes the White House and Democrats were to gain seats in the Senate then it would become harder to confirm Barrett. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is set to tell senators during her confirmation hearing on Monday that while she has been nominated to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the bench, ‘no one will ever take her place’, according to the Associated Press which has reportedly seen a copy of her remarks. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are taking […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US nationals are divided on whether the Senate should support President Donald Trump’s nomination of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a fresh poll revealed. On Saturday, Trump nominated Barrett to replace late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. According to a Morning Consult/Politico poll, 37 percent of respondents said the Senate should vote to confirm Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat, while 34 percent felt the opposite. At least 40 percent of respondents said that the Senate should only vote on confirming Barrett if Trump wins in November presidential election, while 39 percent said the vote […]
When the last U.S. Supreme Court seat opened up, Democrats held out hope that they could stop President Donald Trump’s nominee and force the GOP to compromise. “If we can successfully block this nomination,” said Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) upon Brett Kavanaugh’s selection in 2018, “it could lead to a more independent, moderate selection that both parties could support.” That, of course, did not happen. Two years later, any shred of hope that Democrats might have to block another Trump pick to the high court has been completely crushed. Few on either side doubt that Judge Amy Coney Barrett […]
A position in the US Supreme Court fell vacant on the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on 18 September. US President Donald Trump has now nominated US Court of Appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett as his pick for the vacancy. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as US Supreme Court Associate Justice has already been decried by American liberals who object to her Catholic upbringing and strong anti-abortion stance. But the nominee, who has already been dubbed by some “Glorious ACB” – as the opposite of late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who is remembered by many as “Notorious […]
US President Donald Trump will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett, of the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, to fill the seat of late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to emerging reports on the decision, which is set to be announced on Saturday. Exactly one week after the announcement of Ginsburg’s passing, Trump has reportedly determined that Barrett, 48, will be his Supreme Court nominee ahead of the contentious November 3 presidential election, The Hill reported Friday evening, citing “multiple people familiar with the process.” “He’s made his decision and […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says he does not agree with Senator Susan Collins’ call for waiting until after the November election to fill the Supreme Court vacancy after the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Trump said that he was going to nominate a new Supreme Court justice next week and that he did not agree with Collins’ stance on the issue. “I totally disagree with her, we have an obligation, we won, and we have an obligation as the winners to pick who we want. That’s not the next president”, Trump said, adding […]
In the footage, Graham argues that if a judge seat becomes vacant during an election year, a nomination should only be considered after a new presidential election has taken place. Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham has come under pressure after a 2016 video of him reemerged on social media. “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination”, Graham says in the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106821/49/1068214987_0:35:3441:1970_1200x675_80_0_0_d5fd856e0a96fa23fadbc9b9871fc413.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009191080509836-trump-to-propose-nominee-for-ginsburgs-seat-in-us-supreme-court-soon–reports/ MOSCOW, September 19 (Sputnik) –On Friday, Ginsburg died of cancer at the age of 87 years. According to the NPR broadcaster, shortly before the death, Ginsburg told her granddaughter she would like her seat to remain vacant until the presidential election. US President Donald Trump is expected to announce a nominee for the vacant seat in the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the upcoming days, US media reported. The list of potential nominees consists of only one woman, the ABC News media outlet reported on late Friday, citing […]
“Difficult” is not a word that one should have to use in connection with an Emmy nomination. Yet, as excited as Billy Porter is feeling about his second best actor nod for FX’s Pose, that is how he described what it’s like to finally feel seen while the establishment continues to deny your colleagues the recognition they deserve. Despite Porter’s back-to-back nominations—and his victory at last year’s ceremony, which he says “actually changed my life”—the trans women who perform alongside him in FX’s groundbreaking series have been ignored. Again. Even Mj Rodriguez, who gives the show its unflappable spirit as ensemble […]
John Thompson, a Black man who was friends with Philando Castile, won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) nomination for the 67a District (St. Paul) seat for the Minnesota State House on Tuesday. On Saturday Thompson terrorized a group of white children in a residential neighborhood in the Minneapolis suburb of Hugo, using a sound system to scream obscenities at several teenage white girls standing in a nearby driveway watching a Black Lives Matter protest at the home of Minneapolis police union president Bob Kroll. Thompson screamed, “Come get your blue eyes medicine! Blue eyes ain’t shit!” Video of Thompson was posted to […]
President Trump nominated William Perry Pendley in June to lead the Bureau of Land Management, but it has never been clear he had enough support to win confirmation in the Senate. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR President Trump nominated William Perry Pendley in June to lead the Bureau of Land Management, but it has never been clear he had enough support to win confirmation in the Senate. Kirk Siegler/NPR Amid pressure from Democrats and some Republicans, the Trump administration is planning to withdraw its controversial nominee to head the federal Bureau of Land Management. The sprawling public lands […]
_________FARSReport: Top Pentagon Nominee Pushes Conspiracy Theories Ex-CIA Director Tried to Overthrow Trump TEHRAN (FNA)- Donald Trump’s nominee for a top position at the Pentagon accused former CIA director John Brennan of trying to overthrow the US president and even have him assassinated. Retired army general, Anthony Tata, nominated to become the undersecretary of defense for policy at the Department of Defense, keeps spreading conspiracy theories in several media appearances that some of the Trump administration officials were trying to oust the president, CNN found. On one occasion, Tata said Brennan sent a coded tweet to order the assassination of Trump […]
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Chairman Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) on Wednesday, saying they would oppose consideration of President Donald Trump’s State Department nominees until the senator dramatically revamped the committee’s work. The letter, obtained by The Daily Beast, noted that the Idaho Republican had held just two hearings all year and demanded that he facilitate “a sustained, concrete, and public agenda for policy and oversight.” “The Committee’s agenda has been largely devoid of the serious, sustained, and bipartisan policy and oversight work that have been hallmarks of this Committee,” the letter says. “We cannot […]
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Acting DNI Richard Grenell declassified the list of Obama officials involved in the unmasking of General Mike Flynn in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. CBS reporter Catherine Herridge obtained the list of Obama operatives who unmasked General Flynn. Names include former CIA Director John Brennan, Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and former DNI chief James Clapper. The last name on the list is Joe Biden! TRENDING: Sidney Powell Hits Back Against Judge Sullivan’s Dirty Political Move to Delay Flynn Case, ‘Proposed Amicus Brief Has No Place in This Court’ The last name on […]
US 15:32 GMT 06.05.2020(updated 15:33 GMT 06.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107918/06/1079180662_0:0:3069:1727_1200x675_80_0_0_3302eb80897e8c9c16972230e5a2dd70.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005061079218872-top-3-candidates-who-could-replace-joe-biden-as-democratic-nominee/ Following his denial of sexual assault allegations and speculation about the poor state of his mental health, former Vice President Joe Biden may have fallen out of favour with some Democratic voters, recent polls have shown. But if the party is to select a new challenger to Donald Trump, who might that possibly be? Former Vice President Joe Biden still remains the presumptive nominee from the Democratic party but this could still change at the snap of a finger. The presidential hopefuls could either decide […]