Supreme Court Obama

Holder Stands Up For Obama On Health Care

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 04.04.2012

CHICAGO — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond "appropriately" to a federal appellate judge...

Sam Stein

Top House Dem Suggests Obama Could Go Negative

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.02.2012

WASHINGTON -- Two weeks ago, much of the political and legal world thought it would be unthinkable for the Supreme Court to overturn President Barack ...

Sam Stein

Obama's SCOTUS Pick Likely To Come Next Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs caused a stir on Monday when he told reporters that he could not rule out the president announcing his pick f...

Sam Stein

Mitch McConnell: Supreme Court Filibuster Only For Nominee With "Really Bizarre Views"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said on Sunday that while the option of filibustering a Supreme Court nominee was now the "precedent" of...

Sam Stein

Obama To Meet With Senate Leaders Wednesday On SCOTUS Schedule

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Senate leadership, including respective heads of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will meet with President Obama on Wednesday to discuss the outlines a...

Sam Stein

Supreme Court Nomination: Pressure Mounts To Avoid The Ivy League

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

This past Sunday, during the panel session on "Fox News Sunday", the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, a Harvard graduate and professor, urged the presi...

Sam Stein

Obama Hasn't Spoken With Justice Roberts Since SOTU: Gibbs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts have not spoken since the president called out the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address,...

Sam Stein

Gibbs Fires Back At Chief Justice Roberts Over Obama Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

The White House fired back at Justice John Roberts Tuesday night, after the Supreme Court Chief told a crowd that he found it "very troubling" that Pr...

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Leahy Slams Alito For 'Under Oath' Testimony To Committee (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) lashed into Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday morning on the Senate floor, calling out the swing vote who over...