In interviews this week, Senate Democrats suggested that they would also like to see a broad bipartisan vote. While they stressed that winning over Republicans shouldn’t be the deciding factor for Biden, they argued that it would send a signal to the public that the high court isn’t as politicized as many perceive it to … Read more
President Joe Biden has voted to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court Patrick Semansky/AP Photo President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he had thoroughly reviewed about four “well qualified and documented” candidates to fill Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the bench. Biden, who has vowed to nominate the first … Read more
Murkowski is widely viewed as one of the most likely Republican senators to support Biden’s pick. She has backed 79 percent of Biden’s judicial nominees this Congress and voted last year to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Jackson is viewed as a frontrunner for the Supreme Court seat. … Read more
Confirmation battles for President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee may still be weeks away, but the stream of Wikipedia edits shows behind-the-scenes jockeying to shape the public’s perception of Biden’s likeliest nominees is already well underway. The Wikipedia user “H2rty” — identified as Godi by his former colleagues — made over 20 edits to seven Wikipedia … Read more
Today, Cutter joins playbook author Ryan Lizza to explain what it’s like behind the scenes of a SCOTUS approval process – and what’s keeping her up at night about the process this time. About the SCOTUS Sherpa Roll Ryan: Why is it called Sherpa? Stephanie: Because you’re taking the person through the Senate. One of … Read more
A secretive liberal dark-money juggernaut spent more than a billion dollars in 2020 to help President Biden win the White House, take the US Senate and hold the US House of Representatives. This group, Arabella Advisors, isn’t a household name, but if there is a liberal cause that you’ve heard of, Arabella is likely funding … Read more
The dean of the Georgetown University Law Center described the tweets of a new faculty member who questioned the qualifications of President Biden’s potential new Supreme Court pick as “appalling.” Ilya Shapiro, who was the head of the conservative think tank Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., begins his new job as executive director and senior … Read more
