by Jim Heath | Sep 22, 2020 | 2020, Debates, Headlines, Joe Biden, Trump
The first presidential debate between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will focus on a number of topics, including the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court and the racial reckoning in the country, the debate commission announced today. The first...
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...