GOP-led Senate panel advances Barrett despite Dems’ boycott
Senators plan to convene a rare weekend session Supreme Court nomination ahead of a final Supreme Court confirmation vote expected Monday for the 48-year-old federal judge.
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Senate Judiciary sets vote on Barrett’s nomination for high court
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday set an Oct. 22 vote on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination as Republicans remained on track to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick before the Nov. 3 election.
Senate Judiciary to consider Barrett ahead of vote next week
The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to take the first steps toward approving Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett following two long days of Senate testimony in which she stressed that she would be her own judge.
Barrett tells doubtful Dems she’d keep open mind on court
Democratic senators are trying to dig deeper into the judge’s approach as a legal originalist, one who adheres to a more strict reading of the Constitution, but the appellate court justice from Indiana has declined to directly respond to many questions.
Supreme Court halts census in latest twist of 2020 count
The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately to give the Census Bureau time to meet a year-end deadline.
Barrett bats away tough Democratic confirmation probing
The Indiana judge described herself as taking a conservative, originalist approach to the Constitution. A former law professor, she told the senators that while she admires Scalia, her conservative mentor for whom she once clerked, she would bring her own approach.
Barrett to face senators on health care, legal precedent
The mood is likely to shift to a more confrontational tone as Barrett is grilled in 30-minute segments Tuesday by Democrats gravely opposed to President Trump’s nominee, yet virtually powerless to stop her rise.
Supreme Court nominee Barrett vows to interpret laws ‘as they are written’
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett spoke about her judicial philosophy, her experience and her large family at the end of the first day of her confirmation hearings, which Senate Democrats are using to brand her as a threat to Americans’ health care during the pandemic.
Democrats key in on health care as Barrett Supreme Court hearing opens
Sen. Lindsey Graham opened Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing Monday by acknowledging that the proceedings will surely be contentious but urging senators to hold a respectful process, saying: “Let’s remember, the world is watching.”
Barrett’s Supreme Court hearing expected to focus on health care
Democratic aides said their senators are united in their view that they will not press Barrett about her beliefs—hoping to avoid the mishap from her circuit court confirmation hearing in 2017, when Feinstein told Barrett that “the dogma lives loudly within you.”
How it happened: From law professor to verge of high court in four years
Four years ago, Amy Coney Barrett was a little-known law professor in Indiana. Within weeks, she is likely to be the newest associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Her words: Amy Coney Barrett on faith, precedent, abortion
“However cagey a justice may be at the nomination stage, her approach to the Constitution becomes evident in the opinions she writes.”
Trump officially picks conservative Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court
Trump hailed Barrett—a longtime University of Notre Dame professor—as “a woman of remarkable intellect and character,” saying he had studied her record closely before making the pick.
Trump expected to tap Notre Dame’s Barrett for Supreme Court
Conservative groups and congressional allies are laying the groundwork for a swift confirmation process for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, even before President Donald Trump makes the selection official on Saturday.
UPDATE: Braun, Young support vote on Supreme Court nominee before November
Senate Republicans have swiftly fallen in line behind President Donald Trump’s push to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat. Trump, who will announce his nominee Saturday, is all but certain to have the votes to confirm his choice.
Barrett, emerging as high court favorite, meets with Trump at White House
The president told reporters he was still going to be interviewing other candidates and might meet with Judge Barbara Lagoa when he travels to Florida later this week.
As Democrats balk, Trump to make high court pick by Saturday
President Donald Trump said he had a list of five finalists, “probably four,” and that he is pushing for a confirmation vote on a new Supreme Court justice before Election Day.
McConnell pledges to bring Trump’s SCOTUS pick up for vote
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday night that a Trump nominee would get a vote, although he denied President Obama the same opportunity in a similar situation four years ago.
U.S. carries out the first federal execution in 17 years after Supreme Court approval
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, professed his innocence just before he was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute.
Supreme Court says Congress can’t get Trump records, for now
The outcome is at least a short-term victory for Trump, who has strenuously sought to keep his financial records private.