Donald Trump’s expected nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court, to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is drawing attention to a secretive Catholic “covenant community” called People of Praise that counts Barrett as a member and faces claims of adhering to a “highly authoritarian” structure. The 48-year-old appellate court judge has said she is…
President Trump has been "utterly faithful" to his promises about the Supreme Court, Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said Saturday."For Donald Trump, this is a moment of triumph. Three justices in the three and a half years -- all of a similar intellect and all of a similar attitude about the Constitution," the former judge said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."TRUMP SET TO…
President Trump spoke at a Black economic empowerment event in Atlanta on Friday.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York TimesPresident Trump is expected to announce later today that he has selected Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the passing of the liberal icon, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.With that selection,…
WARREN, Mich. — Diana is a political unicorn. The 23-year-old backed the Libertarian Party nominee, Gary Johnson, in the 2016 presidential race but has yet to find a home in the 2020 race for The White House, making her a rarity in today’s hyper-partisan and hyper-polarized political environment. Most voters have known for months, if…
Show captionAmy Coney Barrett’s portrait in the Hall of Fame at Rhodes College in Memphis. Barrett, 48, has said her religious beliefs would not ‘bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge’. Photograph: Karen Pulfer Focht/ReutersUS newsDonald Trump’s expected nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court, to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…