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The Senate adjourned Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to confirm dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees, capping off days of tense negotiations and partisan finger-pointing — and an explosive Truth Social post from Trump telling Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to “GO TO HELL.” The …

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve a 10-year term as FBI director, distanced himself from Trump’s sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that he did not believe those who assaulted law enforcement officers deserved leniency. “I have always rejected any violence against law …

President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, faced sharp questioning from Republican senators at her confirmation hearing on Thursday over her past praise for Edward Snowden, shifting views on surveillance, and controversial foreign policy positions. With Republicans holding a slim 9-8 majority on the Senate …

In a contentious first day of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), faced intense questioning from Senate lawmakers over his past statements on vaccines, abortion, and public health policies. Kennedy, a longtime environmental attorney and controversial figure due …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 28, 2022 The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee reopened partisan disagreements Monday as members scheduled a vote for April 4 on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Republicans’ criticisms of Jackson’s record and responses were either untrue or …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 24, 2022 WASHINGTON – Representatives of the American Bar Association reiterated their finding that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is well qualified to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and law enforcement groups rebutted GOP accusations Jackson is soft on child pornographers during the final …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 24, 2022 WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee picked up Wednesday morning where they left off Tuesday evening in questioning Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about her judicial philosophy, sentencing practices and personal background.  Two senators, Democrat Jon Ossoff …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 22, 2022 WASHINGTON – Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday sharpened their criticisms of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, probing her work as a public defender on behalf of terrorism suspects, the judicial sentences she has handed down for child …

Read text of the opening remarks by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to the Supreme Court, on the first day of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as delivered March 21, 2022. Watch the remarks here or below. Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Grassley, and Distinguished Members of the …

by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent March 21, 2022 WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began her four-day confirmation process to become the nation’s first Black female associate justice on Monday, listening to hours of opening statements from Senate Judiciary Committee members before giving her own. In her first …

Candice Norwood, Terri Rupar Originally published by The 19th Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings began Monday, less than a month after President Joe Biden announced her history-making nomination. The Senate is charged with confirming nominees to federal courts, and it’s Jackson’s fourth Senate confirmation hearing but the first time …

The confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, are expected to begin on Monday. The event is scheduled to start on Monday, March 21, at 11 a.m. ET. Watch the hearing in the player below. They are scheduled …