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On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
(The Center Square) – Republicans in the U.S. Senate, led by Sen. Marcia Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a bill to increase protections for U.S. Supreme Court justices. The Protecting Our Supreme ...
The case was appealed to the Supreme Court at the end of 2020, but with Trump leaving office in January 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that the case was rendered moot. [4] O'Connor-Ratcliff and Zane petitioned the Supreme Court to hear their case on October 4, 2022. On April 24, 2023, the Court granted certiorari.
He represented Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the House investigation of Jan. 6. Paoletta served as chief counsel for the Energy and Commerce subcommittee ...
The 51-49 vote to end debate on Hegseth’s nomination sets the stage for a final confirmation vote today, when he is expected to secure the majority support he needs to join Trump’s Cabinet.
The nomination originally stood at a 40–40 deadlock, but Vice President Charles G. Dawes did not arrive in the Senate chamber in time to use his tie-breaking vote before Senator Lee S. Overman of North Carolina switched his vote. [7] Coolidge resubmitted the nomination to the Senate, but Warren was again rejected on March 16, by a vote of 39 ...
The panel voted 18-2 to approve former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum to lead the U.S. Department of Interior and a new national council on energy, expected to boost production of oil and gas.
The Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as the Director of the CIA in a vote of 74–25, who is sworn in later that day by Vice President Vance. [41] [42] President Trump signs an executive order to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. [43] [44]