WASHINGTON — The US Justice Department recognized Friday that "mistakes" were made in its legal defense of the forced relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
House Republicans, led by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), have hired former U.S. solicitor general Paul Clement to defend the ban on federal recognition of same sex marriage.
President Barack Obama announced Monday that he plans to nominate former Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lawyer Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. as solicitor general, a position formerly held by Elena Kagan.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's second US Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan, cruised to all-but-certain confirmation Thursday in a final Senate vote making her just the fourth woman to reach the high bench.
President Barack Obama Monday picked Elena Kagan, a "trailblazing" legal scholar, to sit on the US Supreme Court, seeking to lock in decades of liberal consensus building on the conservative-dominated bench.
