We couldn’t help but smile when we saw Yale Law School dean Heather Gerken announce the school’s new tenure-track professor, Garrett West. A former law clerk for Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, Judge Thomas Griffith of the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the Ninth Circuit, West is… a conservative? Gerken says she is
After the House Republican Study Committee released an election-year policy package last month proposing to raise the retirement age, John McLaughlin, a veteran pollster advising former President Donald Trump, said it was “not a good idea.” The former president and presumptive GOP nominee, he told POLITICO, will be “the dominant voice in the Republican Party
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Justice Sonia Sotomayor should ‘weigh the competing factors.’ A Democratic senator has added his voice to the growing calls for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire and thereby allow President Joe Biden to appoint a new justice. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Justice Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, “should weigh the
President Biden is visiting Baltimore Friday in a show of support after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sent shock waves through the city and disrupted the state’s traffic and commerce. The president will survey the site of the devastation and meet with state and local officials. Mr. Biden wants an “on the
President Biden is visiting Baltimore Friday in a show of support after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sent shock waves through the city and disrupted the state’s traffic and commerce. The president surveyed the devastation by helicopter early Friday afternoon, and plans to meet with state and local officials. The president wanted
President Biden is visiting Baltimore Friday in a show of support after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sent shock waves through the city and disrupted the state’s traffic and commerce. The president surveyed the devastation by helicopter early Friday afternoon before receiving a briefing from local officials. The president wanted an “on
President Biden went to Baltimore Friday as a show of support after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, announcing additional federal financial support to buoy the city’s economy and commerce. The president surveyed the devastation from his helicopter, Marine One, Friday afternoon before receiving a briefing from local officials. The bridge fell on