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By Robert Storace | September 4, 2018
The Danbury and Waterbury factions of the Connecticut Independent Party have battled for years over who controls the party. A judge has given round one to Waterbury. Danbury plans to appeal.
By Marcia Coyle | August 23, 2018
The special master who investigated media leaks during the Starr investigation concluded they could have come from lawyers for targets or witnesses in the investigation. Kavanaugh was not named in the report unsealed Thursday.
By Tony Mauro | August 13, 2018
Documents the Senate Judiciary Committee posted as part of Kavanaugh's nomination reveal a heightened-alert atmosphere inside and outside the White House surrounding the speculation that Supreme Court vacancies would soon open up.
By C. Ryan Barber | August 13, 2018
"The appointment does not violate core separation-of-powers principles," U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote on Monday, rejecting a motion from defense lawyers at Reed Smith. "Nor has the special counsel exceeded his authority under the appointment order by investigating and prosecuting Concord."
By Mike Scarcella | August 2, 2018
Judge Beryl Howell: "The witness raises legitimate questions, but his concerns are not legally sustainable. The scope of the Special Counsel's power falls well within the boundaries the Constitution permits, as the Special Counsel is supervised by an official who is himself accountable to the elected president."
By Ellis Kim | July 3, 2018
The Senate Judiciary Committee is seeking a special counsel to help confirm the Trump administration's Supreme Court pick. The DOJ's point person on judicial nominees, Beth Williams, formerly a Kirkland & Ellis partner, helped guide the John Roberts and Samuel Alito confirmations as special counsel.
By C. Ryan Barber | Ellis Kim | July 3, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh's spoken regularly to law students and at various law-themed events over the years, telling audiences about his experience working in the George W. Bush White House and about his time on the D.C. Circuit. Here are some video clips.
By Tony Mauro | July 2, 2018
“I feel some obligation to be something of an honest broker among my colleagues and won't necessarily go out of my way to pick fights,” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said at the biennial conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He also said that at times, “You would sort of sublimate your views.”
By Ellis Kim | June 28, 2018
"A serious constitutional question exists regarding whether a president can be criminally indicted and tried while in office," D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an article in 2009. What's one check against a "bad-behaving or law-breaking" president? Impeachment, Kavanaugh wrote.
By Marcia Coyle | Tony Mauro | June 27, 2018
"Please permit me by this letter to express my profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know, interpret, and defend the Constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises," Kennedy said in a letter to President Trump.
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