Sumrall appointed to Municipal Election Commission
By a 4-2 vote Tuesday, Columbus City Council members appointed George T. Sumrall to the Municipal Election Commission.
Trump unveils list of potential picks for Supreme Court seat
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday released a list of 11 potential picks to replace Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, a mix of federal and state judges that appeared tailored to win over conservatives still skeptical of his candidacy.
Supreme Court trying to find its way after Scalia
Two months, 31 arguments and 18 decisions since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, is the Supreme Court hopelessly deadlocked or coping as a party of eight?
Biden: ‘There is no Biden rule’ on Court nominations
Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday tried to clear his name and tout his record on Supreme Court nominations, calling Republican branding of his past remarks on the subject “ridiculous” and casting himself as a longtime advocate of bipartisan compromise in filling seats on the high court.
7 GOP senators once moved in favor of man Obama nominated
Exasperated by a long-running fight over judicial nominees, a Republican senator pleaded with his colleagues to confirm Merrick Garland to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, often considered the second most important court in the nation.
Bill would allow school boards to appoint superintendents
JACKSON — A bill that would change all public school district superintendents to appointees advanced out of committee Friday in the Mississippi House. Senate Bill
Black women feel jilted by Obama with Supreme Court pick
Black women’s groups said Wednesday they feel President Barack Obama jilted them by choosing someone other than a black woman as his newest nominee for the Supreme Court.
Mississippi senators: Next president should nominate justice
Both of Mississippi’s U.S. senators say they think the next president should nominate someone to fill a current vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Obama to meet with GOP on court fight
President Barack Obama is due to meet face-to-face today with the Senate Republican leaders vowing to block his Supreme Court nominee — no matter who it is — with the hope of keeping the seat open for a Republican president to fill next year.
Senate GOP leader McConnell holds fast in blocking Obama court pick
Democratic foes gloat that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has guided his Republicans into a political dead end with his unbending edict that President Barack Obama’s successor will fill the Supreme Court vacancy and replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
APNewsBreak: Justice Scalia suffered from many health problems
Antonin Scalia suffered from coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes, among other ailments that probably contributed to the justice’s sudden death, according to a letter from the Supreme Court’s doctor.
GOP says no hearings, no votes for Supreme Court nominee
No hearing. No vote. Don’t even bother knocking on our door.
Despite odds, Obama sets out to nominate new justice
It may seem like Mission Impossible.
Scalia remembered for love of God, country, family
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was remembered Saturday as a man who loved God, country and family at a funeral Mass capping two days of mourning for a jurist who left a long and sometimes provocative legacy on the nation.
Some want to limit justices to 18 years on Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death a month before his 80th birthday and the potential impasse over replacing him is giving new impetus to an old idea: Limiting the service of Supreme Court justices.
Cracks emerge in GOP refusal to consider Supreme Court pick
Concerted Republican opposition to considering President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court showed early signs of splintering on Wednesday as a handful of influential senators opened the door to a possible confirmation hearing.
Before Supreme Court nod, an intrusive interrogation
Did you ever buy porn, sniff glue, have sex in junior high? Exactly how many times?
White House lawyers are scouring a life’s worth of information about President Barack Obama’s potential picks for the Supreme Court, from the mundane to the intensely personal.
Obama chides senators to ‘do their job,’ vote on Suprme Court pick
President Barack Obama is challenging Republicans to live up to their avowed adherence for the Constitution and agree to vote on his nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Senate GOP to Obama: Don’t bother nominating to Court
Senate Republicans united behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in insisting that President Barack Obama’s successor fill the Supreme Court vacancy after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Court vacancy is tangible test for candidates
The presidential election just got real.