Republicans are on track to keep control of the Senate which, if Joe Biden wins the White House, could make him a lame duck president from day one. As Senate leader, Mitch McConnell would control what comes to the chamber floor for a vote, a powerful position that would allow him to stymie Biden’s agenda. … Read more
Amy Coney Barrett is 48, a mother of seven and a brilliant legal mind – and now she is the most divisive Supreme Court Justice in at least a generation and perhaps far longer. She brings to the Supreme Court a short judicial career, a longer academic one and the hopes of a conservative legal … Read more
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court Monday evening by the Senate in a 52-48 vote – with Republican Susan Collins crossing the aisle to vote against her. Donald Trump’s third nominee was not in the chamber to watch the roll call vote, which allows her to join the eight justices on Tuesday … Read more
With his campaign battered in the polls, President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at a traveling reporter who questioned his campaing’s constant focus on Hunter Biden – calling the scribe a ‘criminal’ for failing to cover it. ‘You’re a criminal for reporting it. You are a criminal for not reporting it,’ the president said, … Read more
Donald Trump yesterday said the US would be in a ‘massive depression’ if he had listened to the scientists on coronavirus, while his top diseases expert told an interviewer that the president had hosted a ‘super-spreader event.’ As the president pitted the election as a ‘Trump super-recovery’ versus a ‘Biden depression’ at another rollicking rally, Dr … Read more
Amy Coney Barrett’s decision to hold up a blank notebook to prove she wasn’t using notes during Tuesday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing turned into quite the viral sensation on social media, inspiring a host of amusing memes from both sides of the political aisle. President Trump’s nominee displayed the pad at the behest of Senator … Read more
Technical difficulties hampered the second day of questioning Judge Amy Coney Barrett, interrupting what was supposed to be a smooth session for a Supreme Court nominee whose confirmation is all but assured. Microphones in the hearing room stopped working for about 40 minutes Wednesday afternoon, resulting in a break in the confirmation proceedings while staff … Read more
Amy Coney Barrett embraced her classification as a ‘female Scalia’ on Tuesday as questioning of the Supreme Court nominee commenced on Day 2 of her confirmation hearing – but made sure to distinguish herself from the last Justice. ‘Justice [Antonin] Scalia was obviously a mentor,’ Barrett began of the Supreme Court Justice she clerked for, … Read more