By Tony Mauro | March 1, 2019
For years, the court's budget hearing was a major event, not because of budget minutiae but because it fostered a rare unscripted dialogue between the legislative and judicial branches.
By Mike Scarcella | Nate Robson | March 1, 2019
Two other federal appeals nominees—Michael Park and Joseph Bianco, both picked for the Second Circuit—were up for a vote Thursday but the committee held them over until next week. Park is a name attorney at the litigation boutique Consovoy McCarthy Park. Bianco is a federal trial judge in the Eastern District of New York.
By Mike Scarcella | Nate Robson | February 28, 2019
Rao's nomination hit a snag days ago when one member of the committee, Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican and a former clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., suggested he could not vote for Rao if she were pro-choice.
By R. Robin McDonald | February 27, 2019
Sheri Dillon and Stefan Passantino have been asked to appear for a “transcribed interview.”
By R. Robin McDonald | February 27, 2019
Sheri Dillon and Stefan Passantino have been asked to appear for a “transcribed interview.”
By Cheryl Miller | February 27, 2019
Steven Bailey called the censure "a political hit by a Democrat-dominated commission designed to damage me politically."
By Jonathan Ringel | February 27, 2019
A Holocaust historian says lawyers drafted Nazi laws that swept away civil liberties, and although judges overseeing this system weren't pressured to prop it up, they did so anyway.
By R. Robin McDonald | February 26, 2019
A court clerk who was instructed by Superior Court Judge Robert "Mack" Crawford to pay him $15,675.62 that had languished in the court registry for 15 years said it was Crawford's idea, not hers, to give him the money. Crawford's personal bank account was more than $2,000 overdrawn when he deposited the check in his personal account shortly before Christmas 2017.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | February 26, 2019
Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board Chief Counsel Richard Long said the board's goal is "to continue to have the courage to make the difficult choices to do the right things for the right reasons, whether it's making a finding where there's no misconduct—even if there's a perception in the media or in the public to the contrary."
By Tony Mauro | Marcia Coyle | February 26, 2019
What's behind Justice Brett Kavanaugh's recusals in a slew of tobacco cases from Florida? Plus: Will the justices issue a narrow ruling in the "public forum" First Amendment case? And the court says no to posthumous voting on appeals courts. Thanks for reading Supreme Court Brief!
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