Supreme Court announces new ethics code
If one or more justices recuse from a case, it could have a substantial impact on the result, the commentary said.
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If one or more justices recuse from a case, it could have a substantial impact on the result, the commentary said.
The 11-10 party-line vote came as Democrats said Congress has to act because reports about undisclosed gifts and travel received by Supreme Court justices had stained the institution.
On Judiciary, the next Democrat in line after Durbin is Sen.
The Judiciary Committee had already advanced Talley’s nomination to the Senate floor on a party-line, 11-9 vote.
Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., mocked Petersen’s performance when he posted the video of the nominee stumbling over answers as a “MUST WATCH” in a tweet that concluded “he can’t answer a single one.
Judge Neil Gorsuch included a line in his first remarks as a Supreme Court nominee that signals just how closely his approach to deciding cases aligns with the late Antonin Scalia, the polarizing and reliably