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President Nominates Judge Barrett for US Supreme Court
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On Saturday, September 26, President Donald Trump announced that he will be sending to the Senate the name of Amy Coney Barrett, at...
The Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a frequent and eloquent dissenter from many of the decisions of the Supreme Court in recent years, and the...
Ruth Ginsburg Cancer Recovery ‘Is On Track,’ No Further Treatment Needed | Andrea Mitchell...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cancer recovery is "on track" following a December surgery to remove malignant growths from her lung. The Supreme Court revealed that the 85-year-old jurist will continue to work from home for the time being,…
White House preparing for possible Justice Ginsburg departure, reports say
After the 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice misses oral argument while recovering from cancer surgery, speculation grows that the Trump administration is preparing for a retirement and new confirmation battle. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated…
Ginsburg misses first Supreme Court argument
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not attend the first day of oral arguments at the Supreme Court as she continues to recover from surgery. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains Ginsburg's history of health issues. #CNN #News
Justice Ginsburg Misses Supreme Court Oral Arguments For First Time | MSNBC
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not be on the bench Monday as the Supreme Court resumes its hearing of oral arguments. Ginsburg will read transcripts from home and still vote remotely. NBC’s Pete Williams reports. About: MSNBC is the premier…
Justice Ginsburg has surgery to remove cancer from lung
85-year-old Justice Ginsburg is recovering after having two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung a New York hospital, the Supreme Court announces. #Outnumbered #FoxNews FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news…
Look past the politics — Kavanaugh superbly qualified for the U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh are over.
We learned very little about the nominee that we did not know before.
We know that he served for 12 years with distinction on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and is highly regarded by appellate lawyers across the political spectrum.
On the first day of the hearings, he was introduced by Lisa Blatt, a former clerk of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and self-described liberal, feminist lawyer who has argued 35 cases before the Supreme Court — more than any other woman.
The opposition to Kavanaugh is actually not about him, but about the man who nominated him, Donald Trump.
The notion that any Trump nominee is illegitimate because he would shield Trump from hypothetical future subpoenas or prosecutions is belied by history.
Kavanaugh has no closer relationship to Trump that those appointees did to the presidents who appointed them.
Well, Kavanaugh was probably right.
Kavanaugh has never suggested that current procedures for investigating the president are unlawful.
If Kavanaugh is unacceptable as a justice to liberals and Democrats, no Republican nominee would pass muster.
Will Trump get a third supreme court pick?
The result of those nominations has left us with a supreme court that leans towards the right, with a majority of sitting justices nominated by Republican presidents.
The deadline A position on the supreme court becomes available when one of the nine sitting justices resigns, retires or dies.
Once a position becomes vacant, the president nominates someone whom the Senate will then either confirm or reject.
It took four months for Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first pick for the supreme court, to be confirmed.
In order for Trump to lock down a third pick, a spot would have open up by July 2020, before the election in November of that year.
Breyer crosses the average retirement age Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose recently announced retirement created the spot for Kavanaugh, retired at 81 – an age Breyer will hit before 2020.
Kennedy's retirement was far from an outlier, with 80 being the average retirement age for the last 11 justices.
Ginsburg retirement plans Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at 85, is already the fourth-oldest supreme court justice of all time.
That’s three years less than the average.
Ginsburg has also recently brought four new law clerks onboard until 2020 and has been on the record of saying “As long as I can do the job full steam, I will be here.” Breyer and Ginsburg are both Democrat-nominated judges but there’s a small chance that we could see a retirement on the Republican-nominated side.