[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can enforce its restrictions on transgender people in the military while lower court cases contesting their exclusion are continuing to be heard. The high court overturned lower court rulings that had blocked the Defense Department from implementing the restrictions, but for now also […]
WHITE HOUSE — The newest member of the United States Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, after a bruising confirmation process in the Senate that bitterly divided the nation, is vowing to hear every case with respect and an open mind. “Every American can be assured that I will be an independent and impartial justice,” Kavanaugh said in […]
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when both were teenagers aretestifying Thursday at a Senate hearing that could determine the balance of the nation’s highest judicial body. Christine Blasey Ford is giving her account of the alleged incident, in which she says Kavanaugh assaulted her […]
A number of senators, including several Republicans, are calling for a possible delay in the nomination vote for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a woman publicly alleged Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University in California, told the Washington Post that she feared […]