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UPDATE, 6:36 PM PT: Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice at another White House ceremony amid the pandemic. Unlike her introduction ceremony in September, which became a “super-spreader event” in the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci, most of the attendees in the crowd on the South Lawn wore masks and…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court will likely be finalized Monday night after it cleared its last procedural hurdle today. The Senate vote today was split 51-48 along partisan lines. GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats in voting against limiting…

The Senate Judiciary Committee gave the greenlight to Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, even as Democrats boycotted the vote. Barrett’s nomination now heads to the Senate floor, with a vote scheduled for next week, where she is expected to be confirmed by a narrow majority. Instead of appearing at…

UPDATED with latest: The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue its Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT at the Hart Senate Office Building at the U.S. Capitol. It is the last of four scheduled days of hearings by the Republican-led Senate panel to confirm…

Donald Trump’s attorneys are asking the Supreme Court for an emergency stay to block the release of his tax returns. The request comes after a federal appellate court ruled last week that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance could obtain the financial information from Trump’s accountant, Mazars USA, via a grand…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday played out almost exactly how you would expect. As recent nominees before her have done, she avoided committing to a view on an array of different hotbed issues, including the Affordable Care Act, which is pending before the court next month; gun rights and…

A highlight of the opening day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination was how committee member and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris would frame Democratic opposition. To start, Harris attacked the idea of even holding a hearing amid the COVID-19 epidemic and…

Donald Trump was dealt another setback in his latest effort to squelch a grand jury subpoena for his tax returns, after a federal appellate court ruled that Manhattan’s district attorney’s attempt to obtain the documents was not overly broad or done in bad faith. While the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling is…

The U.S. Supreme Court Friday said it has agreed to hear a longstanding case dealing with the FCC’s attempt to relax restrictions on local media ownership. The Federal Communications Commission had referred the case — FCC, et al. v. Prometheus Radio Project, et al. — to the high court in April, supported by the…

President Donald Trump formally announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a move that will solidify the high court’s turn to the right. An appellate judge since 2017, Barrett appeared at a White House Rose Garden ceremony on Saturday along…

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, multiple media outlets, including CBS News, CNN and The New York Times, reported on Friday afternoon. Trump plans to announce his choice at a White House ceremony on Saturday…

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said on Tuesday that he will support a vote this year on a Supreme Court vacancy, making it all the more likely that President Donald Trump will be able to secure a vote for his nominee. “My decision regarding a Supreme Court nomination is not the result of a subjective test of ‘fairness…