Democrat presidential candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer took aim at those alongside him on stage at the Democrat presidential debate in New Hampshire on Friday and said his party is “in trouble” ahead of the election.
If Chief Justice Roberts votes for witnesses, he would have to recuse himself, leaving the Supreme Court deadlocked, and the final decision with Judge Merrick Garland.
The confirmation hearings for Kavanaugh made Robert Bork’s hearings look like a day at the beach. At least liberals only lied about Bork’s judicial philosophy. They didn’t accuse him of being Ted Bundy. The next nomination hearing will make Kavanaugh’s look like an ice cream social. Just because it didn’t work this time doesn’t mean Republicans’ work is done. They have to make sure this never happens again.
In this shameful season of partisan lies, it is nearly impossible to run down every deceit before it lands on the lips of some lusty mob, where it becomes a rallying cry to chase decency, dissent and free speech from the public square.
Attorney General Eric Holder claimed Saturday the Senate’s confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh raises concerns about the Supreme Court’s “legitimacy.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) demanded in a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Saturday that the FBI investigate Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s statements made under oath during Thursday’s hearing to see if he is telling the truth.
Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said if the Democrats take the majority in the U.S. Senate they will block all of President Donald Trump’sSupreme Court nominee as “payback for Merrick Garland.” Toobin said, “There is also
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh “shouldn’t even be having this hearing because he shouldn’t be up for the Supreme Court. Because it should be Merrick Garland.” Maher said,
“I have given it my all in every case,” Judge Brett Kavanaugh said in his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, beginning his Supreme Court confirmation speaking of family, friends, and faith, remembering that judges decide cases for “real people” in an American system of “equal rights, equal dignity, and equal justice under law.”
Rev. Al Sharpton said Democrats should not meet with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar asked Harvard constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was not in jail for blocking Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Dershowitz said, “They
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote to President Donald Trump on Tuesday and urged him to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said her colleagues in the Senate were ready to play “hardball” to delay President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy until after the 2018 midterms.
The irony is that of all the leaders in Washington, Paul Ryan should have been the last to quit. His was the one part of the establishment that delivered on voters’ priorities.
President Donald Trump and his administration moved rapidly Tuesday to settle on a replacement for ousted FBI Director James Comey. Trump has reportedly interviewed several candidates from a wide gamut of backgrounds and judicial philosophies for the job, as he
Tuesday on Bloomberg, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he recommended chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Merrick Garland to President Donald Trump to replace James Comey as FBI Director. McConnell said, “I have spoken with
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-NV) former chief of staff, Josh Holmes, said on Sunday he believes his former boss would support the nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland as FBI director.
Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax and an early backer of President Donald Trump, told Business Insider that he thinks the President should work out a deal to put Judge Merrick Garland, Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat.
NewsMax CEO and Trump confidant Chris Ruddy believes Donald Trump should “do a deal” in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would retire from the Supreme Court to be replaced by Obama choice Merrick Garland. But you don’t need to have read (or written) Art of the Deal to know it is not profitable to compromise with a weak opponent.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, KY) recently insisted that the open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court just filled by Justice Neil Gorsuch was a key factor in President Donald Trump’s White House victory last November.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spoke on the Senate floor on March 9, 2016 to slam the Republicans for not allowing an up-or-down vote on Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, calling it an “all out effort to cripple” the president’s administration.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday about several topics, including Trump’s position on coal, his rally in West Virginia, the hyper-partisan state of play in American politics today, as well as the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court is a “court-packing scheme.” And that if Gorsuch was principled, “he would have turned down this nomination, on the basis that
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” anchor Chris Matthews argued Democrats shouldn’t vote to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination “Because it’s not his turn. It’s Merrick Garland’s turn, and everyone knows it.” Matthews said, “A president nominates a
During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch on Monday, Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) stated that Gorsuch is “a nominee selected by extreme interest groups, and nominated by a president who lost the popular vote
The Democratic Connecticut senator who once law clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of the Roe v. Wade decision, told Breitbart News GOP senators will not change the rules to confirm Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
When President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden was among the first to voice his opposition.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told Breitbart News Daily he was “excited” by President Donald Trump’s choice of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.
Wednesday on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” while discussing President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, left-wing activist Al Sharpton quoted a James Brown song to urge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to give the Republicans the “big payback,”
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” while discussing President Donald Trump calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to “go nuclear” by ending the 60-vote requirement to confirm Supreme Court nominees for Judge Neil Gorsuch, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Pre-printed, fill-in-the-blank signs were distributed: “OPPOSE _______.” Markers would suffice to fill in the name. They did not need to know anything about Judge Neil Gorsuch. They just knew to oppose anyone Trump chose.
Democrats were seething Tuesday night over President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that Trump “stole” the seat from President Barack Obama.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) told reporters Thursday at the Republicans’ policy retreat here that they are committed to a 200-day program to implement the agenda of President Donald J. Trump.
“We are not going to make it easy for them to pick a Supreme Court justice,” Schumer told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump would choose that would get Republican support that we [Democrats] could support.”
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rumors whispered around Washington have it that Democrats are debating having President Barack Obama install Judge Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court by a recess appointment on Jan. 3.
The list includes everything from “exposing Hillary Clinton’s anti-gun agenda” to securing constitutional carry in various states to helping defeat President Obama’s gun-control Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
During Saturday’s Weekly Address Vice President Joe Biden, alongside retired federal judge Tim Lewis, argued that “saying nothing, seeing nothing, reading nothing, hearing nothing, and deciding in advance simply to turn your backs” on the nomination of Judge Merrick Gardland
Thursday’s Supreme Court decisions are a reminder of what is at stake in the November election — and mark a crisis, or moment of truth, for the #NeverTrump movement.
The United States Supreme Court issued two major decisions in Texas cases today. The first leaves in place a block of President Obama’s unlawful executive amnesty order, and the second ruling allows continuation of the affirmative action program in admissions at the University of Texas.
The lawyer who argued and lost U.S. v. Texas, the case for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty at the U.S. Supreme Court called for “righteous anger” to be aimed at the U.S. Senate for refusing to confirm Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination.
