Author: Ann E. Marimow

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The process of getting to at least five votes for a majority often takes months — and the justices’ initial votes are subject to change.

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In his first year, President Biden installed the highest number of federal judges in four decades, choosing nominees from diverse racial, gender and professional backgrounds.

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The ruling comes as leaders of the federal judiciary have overhauled the court’s process for reporting misconduct, and as Congress is considering legislation to extend protections to the judiciary’s more than 30,000 employees who lack the same legal rights as other government and private-sector workers.

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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson sparred with Republican senators Wednesday in a series of charged, sometimes caustic encounters over their assertions she was a judicial activist who is soft on crime, insisting that she would not be a policymaker on the bench.

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Lawmakers from both political parties said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday that, despite efforts by the U.S. courts to overhaul their system, problems persist because the judiciary’s more than 30,000 employees still lack the same legal rights as other government and private-sector workers.

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The details of Caitlyn Clark’s pregnancy discrimination and harassment claims, which she pursued for the next year, were laid out in an internal investigation obtained by The Washington Post. Clark’s testimony will be spotlighted Thursday by a congressional committee scrutinizing gaps in the judiciary’s reporting system and exploring additional workplace protections for court employees, who lack the same rights afforded other government and private-sector workers.

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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to face sharp questions from Republican senators about whether she would sit out an upcoming case examining the role race can play in college admissions because of her close ties to Harvard University.

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With Congress and President Biden on the same side, Trump’s delay tactics in court could fail.

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Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan issued an order after the judiciary’s conduct committee cleared Sullivan’s service on a local judicial nominating commission