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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 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 ...
Cabinet: The Senate failed to reach an agreement Tuesday night to swiftly vote on the nomination of John Ratcliffe to be CIA director. Senators now plan to work into the weekend to try to confirm ...
To further discern the justices' ideological leanings, researchers have carefully analyzed the judicial rulings of the Supreme Court—the votes and written opinions of the justices—as well as their upbringing, their political party affiliation, their speeches, their political contributions before appointment, editorials written about them at the time of their Senate confirmation, the ...
(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 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.