During a conference call with reporters today, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said he would vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation when the Senate Judiciary Committee considers her next week.
“I don’t believe that any nominee should be confirmed to the Supreme Court unless he or she has made More…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) just agreed to postpone committee votes on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Deputy Attorney General nominee James Michael Cole by one week, rescheduling them for July 20.
Ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) had asked for the delay on behalf of committee Republicans, More…
With Congress back in session after the July 4 holiday, the legislative schedule in the Senate is extremely cramped. There’s the financial regulatory reform bill. There’s the unemployment insurance extension. There’s Medicaid funding. There’s funding to help states prevent the layoff of thousands of teachers and firefighters. There’s the More…
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled today that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the law, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages, violated the Constitution because it interfered with a state’s right to define what constitutes a legal More…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), anticipating that Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination will make it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has announced he will vote against her when she comes up for a vote on the floor.
McConnell said he opposed Kagan because he felt she More…
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced a little while ago that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation when the Senate Judiciary Committee convenes after the recess, citing his belief that her legal views are based on personal politics.
Obviously this is not totally unexpected, as More…
Orrin Hatch announces he will vote against Elena Kagan’s confirmation.
Michael Steele says he doesn’t think we should be fighting in Afghanistan.
Republicans weren’t convinced by Obama’s speech to support immigration reform.
The House approved another $37 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan More…
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today defended Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s restriction of military recruiters’ access at Harvard Law School after a veteran testified that the restrictions were akin to segregation.
Retired Army Capt. Flagg Youngblood, military outreach director for Young America’s Foundation, testified that “‘separate but equal’ More…
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee finished hearing directly from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan yesterday, after 17 hours of question-and-answer sessions. Now they’ve begun to hear from witnesses — some will praise her, some will rake her across the coals.
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), an alumnus of the NBC show “Saturday Night Live,” criticized the proposed merger of NBC Universal and Comcast during his question-and-answer session today with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.
“If the same company that runs the pipes also runs the programming, we have a problem,” he More…
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