BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is faulting President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch, saying he favors the interests of big corporations over workers and consumers.
The Massachusetts Democrat described Gorsuch on the floor of the Senate Wednesday as a “huge gift to the giant corporations and wealthy individuals who have stolen a Supreme Court seat.”
Warren was referring to the refusal of Republicans to allow a hearing last year on Judge Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama’s nominee to the court after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death.
Warren and fellow Massachusetts Democrat, Sen. Edward Markey, have said they will oppose Gorsuch’s nomination.
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump promised to appoint a crusading anti-abortion Supreme Court justice, but little Neil Gorsuch has written shows he’d embrace such a label.
An AP review of a decade of rulings and writings by the federal appeals judge reveals little about how he might rule on the hot-button issue.
The review of Gorsuch’s record reveals he has taken positions against assisted suicide and in favor of “religious exemption” laws that allow employers that object to escape paying for contraception. Those are issues that both sides of the abortion debate have seized on to parse his judicial history.
Abortion rights groups have criticized the nomination, saying Gorsuch represents a direct threat to women’s reproductive rights and to Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Hundreds of people have turned out for a candlelight vigil outside the Vermont Statehouse in support of refugees and immigrants and to oppose President Donald Trump’s temporary suspension of immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Organizers said about a thousand people were expected at the event Wednesday evening.
Prompted by the speakers, the crowd chanted “no ban, no wall,” “this is a revolution” and “say it loud, say it clear, Muslims are welcome here.”
BOSTON — Massachusetts’ all-Democratic congressional delegation is calling on federal border officials to comply with a temporary restraining order issued after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on immigration.
The restraining order from a federal judge is meant to ensure international travelers arriving at Logan International Airport aren’t detained or removed based on Trump’s executive order.
The court order remains in effect until Sunday.
The Massachusetts delegations — led by Sen. Edward Markey and Rep. William Keating — sent the letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Wednesday citing reports that students, academics, and others seeking to enter the country through Logan are being detained despite the restraining order.
It’s not very often you get mentioned in a tweet by the president-elect. But that’s exactly what happened to Ivanka Majic, who took the opportunity to tell him to consider the grave threat climate change poses (and also to mind his Twitter manners).
The Brighton, U.K.-based digital strategist got the chance thanks to a case of mistaken Twitter identities.
The exchange started Monday night when Trump retweeted a follower who was praising Trump’s daughter Ivanka. There was just one problem: the original tweet used the wrong Twitter handle for Ivanka and Trump did not correct it.
That fateful error flooded Majic’s Twitter notifications. She decided to write back, telling Trump to be more careful on Twitter and also take the time to understand climate change. Hundreds have replied to her tweet — and to the president-elect — and thousands have retweeted and liked it.
From Associated Press