Democrats kept the focus on health care and the risks of overturning the Affordable Care Act in the first of 4 days of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Politics
Protesters demand stronger promise from Sen. Collins.
Topics included Supreme Court vacancy, reproductive rights, health care, minority rights.
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Posted inNation / World, Politics
Explainer: What’s next with the Supreme Court vacancy?
Republican efforts to fill Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat after her death are likely to move swiftly this coming week
Posted inLocal & State
Ginsburg remembered, heralded at Augusta vigil
Speakers included state Sen. Shenna Bellows D-Manchester, executive director of the The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta; state Sen. Cathy Breen, D-Falmouth; Maeghan Maloney, district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties; and activist Betsy Sweet.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Conservative appeals court judge emerges as favorite to be Trump’s nominee
The president met Monday with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was a strong contender for the Supreme Court seat that eventually went to Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
Posted inNews, Politics
Donald Trump attacks Susan Collins over Supreme Court nomination timeline
Speaking on Fox News on Monday morning, the president said Maine’s Republican senator is “very badly hurt,” by suggesting whomever wins the presidential election on Nov. 3 should decide on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of women’s rights, dies at 87
Ginsburg spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing and became something of a rock star to her admirers, particularly young women.
Posted inOp-Eds, Perspective
How Maine’s Supreme Court is a different case study than that of the nation’s
“We’d fill it.“ These are the three words of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when asked what the GOP would do if a high court vacancy occurred in the last year of the president’s term. News that 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is confronting another cancer diagnosis has reignited speculation that the Trump White […]
Posted inPerspective
Roberts court draws partisan fire-and rising public acclaim
Critiques from the left and right are bolstering an image of independence Chief Justice John Roberts has long sought to foster for the Supreme Court.
Posted inPerspective
When Supreme Court justices defy expectations
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of a pattern of justices setting aside ideology to address historic injustices.