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The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has pledged to oppose the Senate Judiciary Committee’s consideration of two judges over the “blue slip” policy, which has historically given senators the power to stop a lower-court nominee from their own state. When a federal judicial nominee is being considered, a blue slip is given to both senators from the nominee’s home state. The senators are instructed to write down their opinion about the nominee and return the slip to the Judiciary Committee, which will factor the responses into its decision. If one or both senators refuses to return the blue slip,...
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Congress has “no authority” to regulate the high court. His comments were made following a Democratic attempt to mandate stronger ethics rules for the justices. During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the conservative justice voiced his opinion about the measure to write a code of ethics for the Supreme Court. “I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it,” Alito told the paper. “No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court – period.” The U.S. Constitution does allow Congress to struc...
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On Thursday, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary approved a proposal to establish a code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court. The Democratic measure is highly contested by Republican lawmakers. Recent reports from ProPublica about undisclosed luxury gifts and travel accommodations accepted by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have sparked outrage. Many Americans and lawmakers have condemned the highest court in the land for not meeting basic ethical standards. The proposal was sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Dick Durbin (D-Illinois). If passed by the upper ...
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Republican officials are angry about the plea deal that was reached between Hunter Biden and prosecutors on Tuesday. GOP lawmakers have already been taking aim at the Justice Department for its handling of Donald Trump’s classified documents case, and this deal is adding fuel to the fire. After a five-year investigation, Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to failing to pay upwards of one million dollars in income taxes in 2017 and 2018. Hunter Biden will also enter a pretrial diversion program for possessing a firearm while being an unlawful user of drugs, though he will most likely not b...
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Wednesday to receive treatment for clinical depression. The first-year senator was hospitalized last week following a bout of light-headedness. “While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,” his chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, said in a statement. Jentleson confirmed Fetterman was receiving care from Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the attending physician in Congress. Fetterman is following guidance to remain in in-patient care. “John agreed, a...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to investigate Trump’s Justice Department and if it made efforts to use the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office to “aid them politically.” The allegations came out in former U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman‘s new book, Holding Line, which is out on Tuesday. “Throughout my tenure as U.S. attorney,” Berman wrote, “Trump’s Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining – in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired.” He said his office was pressured to investigate former Secretary of State John Kerry ...
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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (Arkansas) criticized the Democrats for backing criminal justice reform that was actually signed into law by former President Donald Trump in 2018. “It’s your party who voted in lockstep for the First Step Act, that let thousands of violent felons on the street who have now committed innumerable violent crimes,” Cotton said during a Senate meeting on Wednesday. “The First Step Act, the Republicans were in the majority. Who signed it into law? Donald Trump signed it into law!” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) responded. Cotton then confirmed that Trump signed the First S...
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