Tag: U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court and the election: What we know

Source:-https://www.wionews.com President Donald Trump promised early Wednesday morning to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the election. “We’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court,” he said. “We want all voting to stop.” The first statement was premature. The second did not make sense. The Supreme Court decides actual disputes, not abstract propositions, and

Supreme Court nominee evasive on scope of Trump’s presidential power

Source – reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, embraced judicial independence on Wednesday but sidestepped Senate Democrats’ questions on whether a president can pardon himself or fire a prosecutor investigating him. Kavanaugh faced a grueling session of more than 12 hours of questioning before a Senate panel that was