Kavanaugh served as a senior White House official under Republican former President George W. Bush before Bush picked nominated him to the appeals court in 2003. But some Democrats accused him of excessive partisanship and it took three years before the Senate eventually voted to confirm him.
In his short remarks following the announcement, Kavanaugh proved that he is likely to be nothing but a puppet for Trump.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that Trump picked the one nominee that would rule in his favor and keep away from criminal prosecution.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer released an immediate statement announcing his opposition to Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
Combine Kavanaugh’s right-wing extremism with his belief that presidents are essentially above the law and it’s clear why Donald Trump nominated him.
With Trump likely to pick an extremist to fill the SCOTUS vacancy, the court is on the verge of becoming a wing of the Republican Party for a generation.Â
Two GOP senators are poised to deliver Trump an epic defeat in his effort to push the Supreme Court in a dangerous direction.
Former Sen. Russ Feingold laid into Trump for first stealing an election, the Supreme Court, and now turning the highest court in the land into a kangaroo court.
Red state Democratic Sens. Joe Donnelly (Indiana), Joe Manchin (West Virginia). Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota), and Doug Jones (Alabama) were invited by Trump to attend his Supreme Court nominee announcement at the White House. They all turned him down.
The other parents have either been deported, failed a criminal background check, were unable to prove they were the parent or had been released and immigration agents had been unable to contact them, said Fabian.
When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin, he sits down with a disciplined, detail-oriented and experienced Russian leader who has played on the world stage for more than 18 years, in contrast to the U.S. president’s 18 months in office.
Boris Johnson stepped down as Britain’s foreign minister on Monday, warning that Britain will end up like a colony to the European Union after the government announced plans for a close trading relationship with the bloc after Brexit next year.
Instead of the boost to GDP growth this year of about 1.3 percentage points estimated by the Congressional Budget Office and other forecasters, they wrote, “the true boost is more likely to be less than 1 percentage point,†with some studies pointing to as little as zero.
“In an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige President Donald Trump has, through the defendant entities, exploited and denied significant wages to his own longstanding personal driver,” the complaint said.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it appears unlikely the U.S. government will meet a court-ordered Tuesday deadline to reunite 102 immigrant children under the age of five who separated from their parents at the U.S. border.
Yesterday we reported that “the political crisis facing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) deepened as a seventh former Ohio State University (OSU) wrestler came forward†to accuse him of lying. We also said that: “Jordan of course is continuing to deny everything and says that everyone is lying about him and that there is a deep…
President Donald Trump is set on Monday night to announce his nominee for a lifetime position on the U.S. Supreme Court, with four conservative federal appellate judges as the top contenders to succeed retiring long-time Justice Anthony Kennedy.
People don’t talk about trade tariffs in this stretch of the Mississippi River basin, where grains and metals have paid the bills for generations.
They skirt the subject at church fundraisers and sidestep it at Jerry’s Café and Quick Stop, where farmers and aluminum workers gossip about everything else.
Here, the winners and losers in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war live side-by-side.
Republicans who spent years accusing Obama of bowing down to America’s enemies are watching Donald Trump bow down to a North Korean regime that has threatened to attack the United States.
Lanny Davis, the new attorney for Michael Cohen (Donald Trump’s former attorney) had some harsh words for Rudy Giuliani (Donald Trump’s current attorney) on Monday. Davis took the former New York City mayor to task for saying on television that Cohen doesn’t have any damaging information to share with prosecutors about Trump. On Sunday, Giuliani…
The most recent Gallup poll on abortion shows that just 18% of Americans think abortion should be illegal in all situations. Â And 79% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal either all the time (29%) or some of the time (50%). As the country waits for Donald Trump to announce his pick to replace…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a statement on Sunday saying that based on information available to their attorneys, the Trump administration will be able to reunite less than half of the families that a federal court ordered be reunited this week. The ACLU statement came after federal authorities released information about the 102…
On MSNBCs Morning Joe on Monday, Joe Scarborough called out Rudy Giuliani for accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of running a “tainted†investigation of President Donald Trump and his campaign. Scarborough responded directly to Giuliani after he made comments on several Sunday talk shows disparaging Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Giuliani said the former…
