President Biden and Senate Democrats are racing to confirm more judicial nominees than former President Donald Trump did while in office. However, they face a difficult schedule to get it done, with several time-sensitive pieces of legislation due this fall and an entire month out of session in October. Prior to the August break, Senate...
A federal judge in Texas on Monday paused a Biden administration policy that would give spouses of U.S. citizens legal status without having to first leave the country, dealing at least a temporary setback to one of the biggest presidential actions to ease a path to citizenship in years. The administrative stay issued by U.S....
A new nationwide survey highlighted in a Wall Street Journal opinion editorial found that most Americans don’t support sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, despite President Biden’s last-minute push for such a measure. The WSJ cited a Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey that found “support for the separation of powers just as many of the...
A conservative government watchdog group secured a legal victory against the Biden-Harris administration by compelling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop deleting employee emails they say had been done in violation of the Federal Records Act. America First Legal, the right-leaning, Washington, D.C. based public interest organization founded by former Trump...
President Biden and Democrats are looking to beat former President Trump’s judicial record and confirm more than the 234 federal judges that his predecessor managed to appoint, even with severely limited time to do so by the end of his term. “Since Democrats took back the White House and the Senate majority in January 2021,...
Following the Supreme Court’s historic decision on former President Trump’s immunity claim in the federal election interference case, the matter has been officially returned for a trial. This is standard court procedure. A month after the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision, the case has been formally remanded to the appeals court, which will then return...
A closer look at the Supreme Court’s 2023 term, from October 2023 to July 2024, provides a more nuanced picture than critics would have Americans believe, according to numbers crunched by veteran court watchers Adam Feldman and Jake Truscott of SCOTUS Blog. Here’s a breakdown of how the justices — six conservatives and three liberals...
South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart executions after more than a decade. All five justices agreed with at least part of the ruling. But two of the justices said they felt the firing squad...
Once again, President Joe Biden has embraced a predictable and tiresome ploy to gin up votes by vilifying the justices on our nation’s highest court. The timing is no coincidence. An election is fast approaching, so our lame duck president trotted out the same jaded and politically-driven bromide to “reform” the U.S. Supreme Court that...
It never made sense or seemed right. With the wave of a wand, a private citizen was granted unlimited power to prosecute a former president of the United States. In a tectonic opinion issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional. As a consequence, she...
