Michael Avenatti said Monday evening that his client, Julie Swetnick, did not witness first-hand Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh allegedly spiking the punch at high school parties in the early 1980s. But he knows a woman who claims to have seen the act, and while she is willing to speak to…
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On Monday night, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that Christine Blasey Ford would have the opportunity to testify at a public hearing next Monday about her accusation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were high-school students, and Kavanaugh will have a chance to…
It’s stupider than you can imagine.
Grassley, citing Dem opposition, says: “I question the sincerity of demands for more documents.”
Why the success of the Federalist Society is unlikely to be replicated.
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If Democrats love the United States and loathe Donald Trump as much as they claim—and we have no reason to doubt their sincerity in these regards—they ought to express delight and gratitude when the president appoints someone with none of his own odious qualities to a high-level position. Instead,…
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For 16 months, Democrats have complained that Republicans have put their political party over the best interests of the country by rationalizing and normalizing the unbecoming behavior of Donald Trump. We’ve often agreed with those assessments. Republicans, sadly, have made a habit of putting…
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has a reputation for being fair-minded. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is a Democratic member of the committee who balked at the nomination of a Minnesota judge to a federal appeals court.
What's the holdup? Deputy national security advisor K.T. McFarland is waiting to leave the White House to prepare for her new assignment as the U.S. ambassador to Singapore. An administration official confirmed back on April 9 that McFarland, a veteran of the Reagan administration who was a Fox…
The DAILY STANDARD Podcast with legal expert and Hoover Institution research fellow Adam J. White on the end of of the judicial filibuster.
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with legal expert and Hoover Institution research fellow Adam J. White on the Gorsuch nomination, the forthcoming Democratic filibuster, and a potential deal to restore the filibuster for other judicial nominees as a trade for a Gorsuch confirmation.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his expected plans to vote "no" on Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court and promised that Republicans would have to overcome a Democratic filibuster in order to seat him.
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with executive editor Fred Barnes on the Gorsuch confirmation hearings, and the future of the American Health Care Act.
In case you didn't notice, the star performer in the Judiciary Committee today was the nominee himself, Judge Neil Gorsuch.
His long trek through more than 70 senators' offices behind him, Judge Neil Gorsuch now comes before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary knowing at least two things for sure. First, he can expect Democratic members to offer uplifting discourses on the vital principle of judicial independence. And…
While activity and controversy have consumed the White House over the past few weeks—the rollout of the health-care bill, President Trump's claims he was wire-tapped by President Obama, the travel ban's legal troubles, and the unveiling of the Trump budget—Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has…
President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to Israel took a sober tone Thursday, as David Friedman, labeled a firebrand in the run-up to his confirmation hearing, moderated his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and repeatedly expressed regret over inflammatory comments he made in the…
President Donald Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to fill the late Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat is bound to provoke yet another political brawl. The conventional wisdom is that this is a bad thing. The increasingly bitter fights over the High Court are a sign that our system of government…
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Michael Warren on the first big cabinet pick setback: Andrew Puzder.
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to fill the late Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat is bound to provoke yet another political brawl. The conventional wisdom is that this is a bad thing. The increasingly bitter fights over the High Court are a sign that our system of government…
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Jay Cost on the fight over Neil Gorsuch.
At 10:30 Thursday morning, Jeff Sessions will officially be sworn in as attorney general of the United States. On a near party-line vote, 52 to 47, the Senate confirmed one of its own Wednesday night for the job of the nation's top law enforcement officer. Sessions was one of Donald Trump's…
Alabama's Jeff Sessions was confirmed by the Senate as President Trump's attorney general Wednesday night by a 52 to 47 vote.
For the remainder of Tuesday night and for most of Wednesday, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is prohibited from debating on the floor of the Senate. That's because her Senate colleagues found her guilty of impugning another senator, Jeff Sessions, whose nomination for attorney general is…
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with deputy online editor Chris Deaton on President Trump's new SCOTUS pick and his story on the Senate prospects for Neil Gorsuch's nomination.
President Trump announced Tuesday night his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
Tom Price, President Trump’s choice for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has the distinction of being a better fit for the department he's been picked to lead than any other Trump cabinet nominee. But this hasn't helped Price gain Senate confirmation.
The weather Monday in Washington was windy, rainy, and messy—but those were hardly the conditions inside the West Wing on what the Trump administration was calling its first "working day." President Trump had an early meeting with CEOs of some of the country's largest manufacturers, a phone call…
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with executive editor Fred Barnes on the Trump transition.
Here’s the read-out from Senator Grassley's office, on his breakfast this morning with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland:
If you’re running for your party's presidential nomination, you'd better not rely on the notion that you have the best chance of being elected in the general election. The most compelling evidence at the moment is John Kasich's campaign—that is, its lack of success.
To hear some on the left tell it, the Supreme Court would be hamstrung if it had to function for a year or more without a ninth justice. What to do in the event of a 4-4 tie? This would not have been viewed as a problem, however, by America's Founders, who created a Court with an even number of…