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Trump's team asked the Supreme Court to reject the expedited timeline and allow the appeals court to consider the case first. [29] [30] On December 22, the Supreme Court denied the special counsel's request, leaving the case to the appeals court. [31] On January 9, 2024, the D.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments in the immunity dispute.
Early jockeying underscores the potential significance of a second Trump term on the federal judiciary, and the Supreme Court specifically. If Trump is able to name one or two younger justices in ...
Al Drago/Getty Images. With Trump's victory and upcoming GOP control of the Senate, the Supreme Court looms large. Trump appointed a third of the current Supreme Court in just one term.
After the federal government moved to Washington, D.C., in 1800, the court had no permanent meeting location until 1810. When the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe had the second U.S. Senate chamber built directly on top of the first U.S. Senate chamber, the Supreme Court took up residence in what is now referred to as the Old Supreme Court Chamber from 1810 through 1860. [6]
Following his victory in the 2016 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump took office as president on January 20, 2017, and faced an immediate vacancy on the Supreme Court due to the February 2016 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. During the 2016 campaign, Trump had released two lists of potential nominees to the Supreme Court.
Outside, Trump’s supporters and critics have swelled the square facing the courthouse, Collect Pond Park, where, as the first week of the trial came to a close, a man lit himself on fire.
President-elect Donald Trump, who moved the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically rightward in his first term, may get a chance to rejuvenate its 6-3 conservative majority by replacing some or all of ...
Trump, 847 F.3d 1151 (9th Cir. 2017), ... making it more important that the Supreme Court serve as an independent check on the administration.