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Senate Democrats are returning from their summer break with dozens of judicial nominees pending and a two-month sprint to the midterm elections that will decide which party will control confirmation of judicial picks during the next two years of the Biden administration.
Senate Democrats are returning from their summer break with dozens of judicial nominees pending and a two-month sprint to the midterm elections that will decide which party will control confirmation of judicial picks during the next two years of the Biden administration.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials argued in a brief Wednesday that the Supreme Court should reject a petition challenging a divided Ninth Circuit ruling that allows the public release of a video recording of the historic 2010 federal court trial that overturned a state ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage.
Top Republican senators wrote to 12 chief circuit court judges Thursday urging them to receive commitments from the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP that it will stick with current and future pro bono and other court case assignments even if they turn out to involve clients' Second Amendment rights.
The U.S. Department of Justice improperly shielded a memo to then-Attorney General Bill Barr related to whether former President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice during the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday.