by Jim Heath | Sep 20, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, GOP, Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
Leading Florida Republican politicians may have convinced President Trump to nominate federal Judge Barbara Lagoa to the U.S. Supreme Court — a move they say would boost his reelection chances in the must-win swing state. The biggest names in the Florida GOP are...
by Jim Heath | Sep 19, 2020 | Headlines, Supreme Court
Planned Parenthood sounded the alarm Friday night after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, noting that abortion rights could be decided on the high court based on her replacement. Reproductive rights, voting rights, protections from...
by Jim Heath | Sep 19, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Supreme Court
If Mark Kelly, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Arizona, unseats Senator Martha McSally, a Republican who was appointed to her seat and began serving last year, he could be sworn in as early as Nov. 30 — possibly in time to vote on a new Supreme Court nominee....
by Jim Heath | Sep 19, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Supreme Court
The question of whether President Donald Trump will get to fill the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat this year — either before the election or even after it, if he should lose — is entirely up to Senate Republicans. There are 53 Republican...
by Jim Heath | Sep 19, 2020 | Headlines, Supreme Court
Former President Obama has called on the Senate not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg until next year. Obama urged Republicans to live up to the standard they set in 2016 by refusing to give a hearing to Merrick Garland....
by Jim Heath | Sep 19, 2020 | Headlines, Supreme Court
Mitch McConnell is not a man history will remember as particularly honorable. The debate over his role as Majority Leader in the Senate will studied and compared against others, but his lack-of-character will never be in doubt. Not two hours after Supreme Court...
