Supreme Court News
Latest
-
The 100-keg quest: Kavanaugh classmate Mark Judge details senior year at Georgetown Prep
A goal of drinking 100 beer kegs by the end of senior year. A party with a stripper. A student falling through ceilings at house parties. These are new details coming to light in Mark Judge’s descriptions of his days as a Georgetown Prep student.
5 hours ago -
Details of Thursday hearing for Kavanaugh accuser to be set
WASHINGTON (AP) — Details must be worked out on a tentative agreement for a Thursday hearing for Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about her allegation that the Supreme…
8 hours ago -
Ford’s lawyers say she accepts request to speak to Judiciary Committee next week, but details need to be worked out
The message from Ford’s lawyers did not, however, agree to a specified date and time for Ford to speak to the committee and said that “many aspects” of an earlier proposal by the committee was “fundamentally inconsistent with the Committee’s promise of a fair, impartial investigation into her allegations.”
19 hours ago -
Ben Carson ties Kavanaugh allegation to centuries-old socialist group
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Friday tied the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a century-old plot by socialists.
23 hours ago -
Analysis: Trump tries a different strategy on assault claim
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump went there. Republicans for days have been trying, with some success, not to blame the accuser in the high-stakes he-said-she-said roiling the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. They…
1 day ago -
GOP, Kavanaugh accuser in standoff over her Senate testimony
Nearly two hours after a deadline set by Chairman Chuck Grassley expired Friday night, the Iowa Republican tweeted that he’d “just granted another extension” for Christine Blasey Ford to agree to terms for telling his panel and a captivated nation about her allegation.
1 day ago -
The Latest: Senate committee agrees to give Ford more time
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and a woman accusing him of sexually assaulting her decades ago (all times local): 11:35 p.m. The Senate Judiciary Committee is giving Christine Blasey…
1 day ago -
Collins: Delay vote to let Kavanaugh accuser testify
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Friday that President Donald Trump’s tweet criticizing his Supreme Court nominee’s accuser was “appalling” and a disservice to both the judge and the woman…
2 days ago -
Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser requests extra day to consider terms for testifying; rejects ‘arbitrary’ Friday deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser requests extra day to consider terms for testifying; rejects ‘arbitrary’ Friday deadline.
2 days ago -
Ronald Reagan’s daughter defends woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault
Davis’ story was published in an op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday, in which she alleged that she was raped by a music industry executive some 40 years ago
2 days ago -
Evangelicals push Senate Republicans to confirm Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh’s nomination was a prime topic Friday at the annual Values Voter summit as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, faith leaders and others vowed that President Donald Trump’s nominee would win confirmation.
2 days ago -
Memory’s frailty may be playing role in Kavanaugh matter
Experts say that because of how memory works, it’s possible that both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford — the woman who says a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party when they were teenagers in the early 1980s — believe what they say.
2 days ago -
Path forward for Kavanaugh could be like Clarence Thomas’
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Clarence Thomas arrived at the Supreme Court in 1991 after a bruising confirmation hearing in which his former employee Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, fellow justice Byron White said…
2 days ago -
Kavanaugh allegation tests support of GOP women
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. (AP) — For women like Jayne A. Cordes, the steady stream of investigations in Washington is exhausting. That’s why, when Christine Blasey Ford came forward to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh…
2 days ago -
Under right terms, Kavanaugh accuser may testify after all
The preference would be for Ford to testify next Thursday, and she doesn’t want Kavanaugh in the same room, her attorney told Judiciary Committee staff in a 30-minute call.
2 days ago
