Washington — Justice Amy Coney Barrett spoke with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell for her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court in October 2020, responding to criticism that the Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to expand the bounds of executive power and discussing the attacks waged on the federal judiciary. Selected…
Amy Coney Barrett had been teaching full-time for nearly two decades, at Notre Dame’s campus in South Bend, Indiana, until she was selected by President Donald Trump, in 2020, to serve on the Supreme Court. Now, she’s traded the classroom for the courtroom, although she continues to teach a weeklong seminar on Constitutional Law. In…
Washington — Justice Amy Coney Barrett said she sharply responded to a dissenting opinion from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a recent ruling on nationwide injunctions because Jackson had made a “spirited argument” that “merited a spirited response.” Barrett discussed the majority opinion she authored in a conversation with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell,…
Sentinel We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett was serving on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Indiana when she was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Trump in 2020. In her new memoir, “Listening to the Law: Reflections on…
American businesses could be owed tens of billions of dollars in refunds for tariffs they paid on foreign goods. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has collected more than $200 billion in tariff revenue from American businesses of all sizes through August 24, according to agency data. Of that, more than $70 billion comes from payments…
Washington — Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that the Supreme Court “should not be imposing its own values on the American people,” as the high court faces a longshot bid to revisit its decade-old landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. In her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court in October 2020, Barrett told CBS…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with the cancellation of National Institutes of Health research grants tied to issues like gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion. In a 5-4 decision, in which Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided in part with the majority, and Chief…
Major Supreme Court ruling shifts power Major Supreme Court ruling shifts powers of federal judges, Trump administration 08:13 The Supreme Court has teed up a major case for next term on whether racial redistricting is unconstitutional. In a Friday night scheduling order, the high court asked parties to file briefs on whether Louisiana’s creation of…
The MAGA lawmaker overseeing the investigation into former President Joe Biden’s autopen use has vowed to probe the former president’s judicial appointments. During an appearance on Fox News, Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who leads the House Oversight Committee, said his inquiry would “look at everything that was signed with the autopen,” including executive orders, pardons,…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the structure of a federal health task force that recommends preventive medical services that must be provided to patients at no cost under the Affordable Care Act. The ruling from the Supreme Court in the case known as Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. leaves intact the 16-member…