The question the Senate confirmation process must address is whether the department’s tradition of independence will be supplanted by a new value: loyalty.
In Bank Markazi v. Peterson, the justices decided that Congress can change the rules while a case is still being litigated.
But instead he got a fair one, and was convicted by a jury of his peers.
At a technical, legal level, Donald Trump’s proposal to force Congress to adjourn doesn’t hold up.
President Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee called his work on the case “the most important thing I have ever done in my life.”
After oral argument, the third iteration of the president’s order targeting several Muslim-majority countries seems likely to stand.