Jo Macellaro, who came down on a bus from New York City early this morning to protest the Kavanaugh vote, told me that she’ll be leaving DC when they let her out of jail. She had not yet been arrested.
VIDEO: The scene outside the Supreme Court when Kavanaugh’s confirmation was announced.
Protesters overtook the plaza, street, and surrounding area outside of the Supreme Court in advance of the 50-48 confirmation vote of Justice Brett Kavanaugh on October 6, 2018.
More of the protest scene outside of the Supreme Court on Saturday, in the moments after Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the nation’s top court.
Here are photos provided by the Supreme Court of Justice Brett Kavanaugh taking the constitutional oath from Chief Justice John Roberts and the judicial oath from retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. [📷: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States]
Just saw this, but wanted to point out: This is a wildly obvious lie from the president, as the photos and video from earlier up in this thread shows.
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Breaking: #SCOTUS allows North Dakota voter ID requirement, which had been enjoined during the primaries, to be enforced during the general election.
Here was the filing asking #SCOTUS to lift the stay that had been entered by the 8th Circuit of the district court's injunction: documentcloud.org/documents/4999…
Here was North Dakota's opposition to the request. (The state hired William Consovoy in DC as outside counsel.) —> supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/1…
Off to #SCOTUS, where Justice Brett Kavanaugh has joined the court and will be hearing arguments in two criminal sentencing cases today.
Another person to watch: Chief Justice John Roberts, who now gets to decide what to do with his Supreme Court. Read my story about that aspect of this change: buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/c…
#SCOTUS, Oct. 9, 2018: Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first day on the court, as a small group of protesters remain: “This isn’t over.”
President Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh: “You, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent.” All other nine justices are sitting in the front row.
EIGHT JUSTICES. SORRY.
Kavanaugh was not, of course, “proven innocent,” as it was not a trial.
Back in January 2017, I wrote about how the chief justice had handled the 8-justice court after Scalia's death, a pattern I'd been watching since the marriage cases and have been slightly obsessed with since. —> buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
In January of this year, I put down what I'd been observing — an ever-so-slight shift from the chief — into words, noting how it wasn't quite clear yet why it was happening (or what Kennedy's departure would mean for it). buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
After the vote, and presuming all goes as expected, it's just a matter of paperwork passing hands until Judge Brett Kavanaugh could be sworn in. (Of course, neither the Supreme Court nor White House are saying anything about this until the vote is done.)
Here's information about the two oaths — a constitutional oath and judicial oath — that Kavanaugh would need to take before "execut[ing] the duties of their appointed office," as the court puts it: supremecourt.gov/about/oath/tex…
Gorsuch took the constitutional oath at the Supreme Court just three days after his confirmation, and the judicial oath was administered by Justice Kennedy at the White House. washingtonpost.com/politics/court…