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Ryan said last week that Obama’s “executive amnesty” is an attack on Congress’s Article 1 power under the constitution and that is why the House plans to take the “extraordinary step” of filing a brief
By Bridget Bowman and Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] Minority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court will
[jwp-video n=”1″] “We have a constitutional duty to do our jobs, and that duty is to give advice and consent to the president when he sends a nomination up here, which he will have in a matter
By Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] In the coming weeks, the House will vote on whether to file an amicus brief in the U.S.
By Bridget Bowman and Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he and other Senate Republican leaders met with President Barack Obama for
Democrats made more than a dozen speeches on the Senate floor, rallied outside the Supreme Court, and delivered more than 1 million petition signatures last week, all with a single message for their Republican
By Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference Thursday she believes Congress may need to get involved in the issue of Apple’s encryption
It also would offer a 6 to 1 taxpayer match from a newly created “Freedom from Influence Fund.” His bill (HR 20) has support from 156 Democrats but only one Republican, Rep. Walter B.
By Thomas McKinless and David Hawkings [jwp-video n=”1″] With Senate Republicans condemning the president’s intention to bring in a new Supreme Court justice during his final year
By Niels Lesniewski and Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached consensus that President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme
The panel deadlocked 7-7 on whether to endorse Clarence Thomas but then voted 13-1 to send his nomination to the floor without a recommendation — a roll call that happened before sexual harassment allegations
Family and friends will have another chance to honor Scalia during a memorial service being held at 11 a.m., March 1, at the Mayflower Hotel.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama on Friday afternoon made the 2 1/2-mile trek from the White House to the Supreme Court, where the 79-year-old conservative justice’s body laid in repose
By John Bennett and Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] President Barack Obama said at a press briefing Tuesday there is no particular stance on any given issue that would lead him
Obama on Supreme Court Nomination: ‘The Constitution is Clear’ [jwp-video n=”1″] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 82, and will turn 83 on March 15.
By Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] When asked about the possibility of President Barack Obama taking executive action on campaign finance reform, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
By John Bennett and Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday that the administration will argue at the Supreme Court that President
By JM Rieger and Amelia Frappolli [jwp-video n=”1″] Minority Leader Harry Reid slammed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the Senate floor Thursday for comments Scalia made about
[jwp-video n=”1″] On the heels of the U.S.
By Adriel Bettelheim and Todd Ruger and Toula Vlahou [jwp-video n=”1″] CQ Now’s Adriel Bettelheim is joined by legal affairs reporter Todd Ruger, looking at the controversial cases