Brett Kavanaugh, a top contender to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, is facing pushback from social conservatives who say he’s too moderate to occupy a seat that will determine the balance of the Supreme Court.
Kavanaugh, a judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is being considered alongside other top candidates like Amy Coney Barrett and Raymond Kethledge, who also serve as federal appeals court judges.
President Trump has said he'll announce his pick on Monday at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Brett Kavanaugh, a top contender to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, is facing pushback from social conservatives who say he’s too moderate to occupy a seat that will determine the balance of the Supreme Court.
Many aides inside the West Wing feel excited about President Trump’s forthcoming Supreme Court pick, viewing it as a chance for Trump to score a victory that could energize his beleaguered team.
President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani said Friday that Trump will only agree to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller if the special counsel has evidence that Trump committed a crime and that the president’s testimony is needed to complete the probe.
Special counsel Robert Mueller will present evidence that a bank executive allegedly helped former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort obtain more than $6 million in loans while that executive tried to land a position in the Trump campaign.
Scott Pruitt has left the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but that doesn’t necessarily mean an end to the congressional and federal investigations that contributed to his downfall as head of the agency.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday vehemently denied claims that he knew of alleged sexual abuse taking place on the Ohio State University wrestling team while he served as assistant coach, while calling into question the timing of the allegations.
China accused President Trump on Friday of starting “the biggest trade war in economic history” by slapping billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs on Chinese goods.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly asking a federal judge for more time to reunite the thousands of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Hollywood celebrities have been raising the heat in their rhetoric against President Trump, but critics say the often-profane criticism could actually inflame a pro-Trump backlash ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Gorsuch 2.0. That’s how conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt described Raymond Kethledge, the Sixth Circuit judge who reportedly sits near the top of President Trump’s short list of candidates to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Supreme Court seat.
OPINION | Forget about #abolishICE. Scott Pruitt’s resignation provides an opportunity for President Trump to do something bold that will better protect the environment and help D.C. run more efficiently: return the powers of the EPA to the states.
OPINION | In addition to so many other implications, it is essential that we consider the impact that the next Supreme Court Justice could have on women’s access to birth control.
The United States and China hit each other with punishing tariffs on Friday as the two nations tipped into a long-feared trade war that is only expected to escalate.
To keep his arrival in Washington secret, the Supreme Court nominee was driven along a back farm road and flown to the nation’s capital on a military jet. He stayed with friends, rather than at a hotel. That allowed President Donald Trump to build up the suspense until he revealed, in a 2017 prime-time address, his first pick for the high court: Neil Gorsuch.
Scott Pruitt was known inside the Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters for sipping $10 organic juice infused with kale, sporting Ferragamo shoes with his Hickey Freeman suits, and making biblical references in texts and conversations with aides.
With Puerto Rico still recovering from hurricanes Irma and Maria last year, cautious residents filled supermarkets and department stores Friday as the first Atlantic hurricane of the season approached the Caribbean.
Broadsides against NATO from U.S. President Donald Trump on European defense spending—and worries about Russia’s resurgence—have sped a transformation that has put the trans-Atlantic military alliance on its best operational footing in years.
