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Democratic senator Barack Obama said, "Though I will reserve judgment on how I will vote on Judge Alito's nomination until after the hearings, I am concerned that President Bush has wasted an opportunity to appoint a consensus nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor and has instead made a selection to appease the far right-wing of the ...
On December 16, 2015, Obama nominated Palk to serve as a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, to the seat vacated by Stephen P. Friot, who took senior status on December 1, 2014. He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 20, 2016. [274]
President Barack Obama made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor [1] to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter. [2] Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 6, 2009, by a vote of 68–31.
“Maybe Alito is trying to make sure that the Supreme Court is above the law,” said political strategist Alencia Johnson. The post Justice Alito slammed for saying Congress has no authority ...
Justice Samuel Alito was not present on Friday morning as the Supreme Court handed down opinions in the courtroom, the second day in a row he has been absent.
In 1990, Alito was appointed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where he served until joining the Supreme Court. He has called himself a "practical originalist" [1] and is a member of the Supreme Court's conservative bloc. [2] Alito has written majority opinions in the landmark cases McDonald v.
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a secret recording made public on Monday by a liberal activist can be heard agreeing with the sentiment that the U.S. should return "to a ...
Prior to his nomination, Liu had not served as a judge and had argued only one case at the appellate court level as a lawyer. [35] Liu's criticism of Chief Justice John Roberts and especially his statement during Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination [36] was targeted by Senate Republicans as proof of his lack of judicial temperament and ...