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February 08, 2017 | National Law Journal

Telling senators that the president's tweets criticizing federal judges were “disheartening” and “demoralizing" could cement support among mainstream lawyers, judges and scholars.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

February 08, 2017 | Supreme Court Brief

Forget the romantic visions of justice embodied in the beautiful Supreme Court building and accept the court is a political institution, says Lincoln Caplan, author of "American Justice 2016: The Political Supreme Court."

By Tony Mauro

21 minute read

February 07, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

A tangle of possibilities lie on the other side of Tuesday's Ninth Circuit showdown. We look at the possible paths.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

February 06, 2017 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court nominee reacted strongly after former law clerks gave Vanity Fair magazine behind-the-scenes information about the court's decision in Bush v. Gore.

By Tony Mauro

31 minute read

February 06, 2017 | National Law Journal

A televised hearing Feb. 3 allowed viewers to watch Seattle U.S. District Judge James Robart announce his decision to halt President Donald Trump's immigrant travel ban.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

January 31, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

As business lawyers dissect the nominee's record, they're likely to celebrate a 2016 decision by Judge Neil Gorsuch that criticizes the "Chevron doctrine" of agency deference and says the time "has come to face the behemoth.”

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

January 31, 2017 | National Law Journal

Here are some of the Supreme Court nominee's most memorable comments on assisted suicide, the changing work of trial lawyers, and the death of the justice he's been named to replace.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

January 31, 2017 | Daily Report Online

In choosing Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court, President Trump opted for a candidate with traditional credentials shared by most modern-day justices. A Colorado native with a degree from Harvard Law School, Gorsuch clerked for Justice Byron White and Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. "In our legal order, it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives," Gorsuch said at the White House.

By Tony Mauro

11 minute read

January 30, 2017 | National Law Journal

Donald Trump's sister, federal appeals Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, might be "high" on her colleague Thomas Hardiman as a potential U.S. Supreme Court justice. But Barry and Hardiman are hardly ideological soulmates. By no means an exhaustive search, here are some highlights from cases in which Hardiman and Barry found common ground—and from those disputes where they didn't see eye to eye.

By Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro

11 minute read

January 30, 2017 | National Law Journal

In what would be a Supreme Court first, Neil Gorsuch could share the bench with the justice for whom he clerked—Anthony Kennedy. Some observers say the number for former clerks now on the court raises questions of experiential diversity.

By Tony Mauro

12 minute read