Trump, Kavanaugh and Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court appeared deeply skeptical that President Donald Trump could legally fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. Justices on the country’s highest court heard oral arguments in the case before issuing a ruling that could have a dramatic impact on the president’s power and the independence of the Fed.
Coming into Wednesday’s argument, Justice Brett Kavanaugh was one of the court’s strongest voices emphasizing the importance of the Federal Reserve’s independence. He wrote about the topic in a 2009 law review article.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh just sat out a Supreme Court case involving Russia. The conservative justice took "no part" in the court's Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Russian Federation decision, which was handed down in an orders list on Monday.
During a marathon Supreme Court session Tuesday over whether states may ban transgender women from participating in women and girls’ sports, some justices were already focused on what may lie around t
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have agreed to hear a bankruptcy case that the majority of justices declined to take up. In an order released by the Supreme Court on Monday, a petition for a writ of certiorari was denied in The Hertz Corporation v.
The justices are clearly struggling with what kind of opportunity Lisa Cook deserves to defend herself from President Trump’s claims for removing her from the Fed. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the court doesn’t necessarily need to decide that now.
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Justices hold that restitution requirements imposed on federal convicts can’t be ratcheted up after the crime but before sentencing
Yesterday’s majority opinion by Brett Kavanaugh in Ellingburg v. United States well may be the shortest of the term – less than five pages for a unanimous court holding that […]