A Liberal Law Professor On His Endorsement Of Kavanaugh
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Akhil Reed Amar, a professor of law at Yale University, about his endorsement of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Kavanaugh Looks On Path To Supreme Court Confirmation, After 4 Days Of Hearings
Nothing during the hearings seemed to change the likelihood that the judge is headed for a spot on the nation's highest court. But the week did help elevate the profiles of two Democratic senators.
The Resistance At The Kavanaugh Hearings: More Than 200 Arrests
Opponents of Kavanaugh's nomination don't have the votes to derail his confirmation, but protesters voiced their concerns at his hearing about a conservative majority's impact on the Supreme Court.
Kavanaugh Hearings
NPR's Michel Martin reviews the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh with court watcher David A. Kaplan.
Nike's New Ad Campaign Divides Law Enforcement
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the National President of the Fraternal Order of Police Chuck Canterbury about why his organization condemned Nike's Colin Kaepernick ad as an "insult."
Alberto Gonzales On Kavanaugh
NPR's Scott Simon asks former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about working with a president and previously confidential emails between him and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The Federal Judge At The Center Of A Fight Over Migrant Separations
The Trump administration wants to withdraw from the Flores agreement, a decades-old legal settlement concerning detention of children. Dolly Gee is the federal judge at the heart of the battle.
Judge Orders Florida Officials To Provide Sample Ballots In Spanish
"Voting in a language you do not understand is like asking this Court [to] decide the winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry — ineffective, in other words," a federal judge said in the Friday ruling.
Ex-Trump Aide Papadopoulos, 1st Charged In Russia Probe, Sentenced To 14 Days
Donald Trump's former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his connections to Russian operatives in 2016.
After A Week Of Public Hearings, Judge Brett Kavanaugh Seems Poised For Supreme Court
President Trump's pick for the high court successfully parried questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Democratic complaints that they had seen just 10 percent of his government record didn't seem to raise much public ire.