The 2020 Election is taking place during a challenging time in America. Currently, the United States is facing three coinciding existential crises: a pandemic that has stretched to every corner of the globe, the worst economy since the Great Depression, and a reckoning of racial injustice that has led to a polarizing perception of the issue of law and order.
Judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Amy Coney Barrett, was nominated by President Trump for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on Saturday, Sept. 26. Barrett graduated from Rhodes College and Notre Dame Law School. She taught at Notre Dame for 15 years and continues to teach part time. She is a […]
President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden engaged in the first of three scheduled presidential debates on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Faculty speculate that the frequent interruptions by Trump were a strategy to derail the debate and draw media attention, but it may not have worked in his favor.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died from complications of pancreatic cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, just six weeks before the presidential election. A replacement for the liberal justice will have serious implications for an array of cases the Supreme Court will hear in the near future.
President Donald Trump has been trying to make a deal to either ban the extremely popular app TikTok from the United States or remove the app from the control of the Chinese Government, since July.
Following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, 17-year old, Kyle Rittenhouse, fatally shot two people and wounded another person at a protest in Kenosha, Wis. on August 25th. Rittenhouse is facing charges for murdering two people.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everything in every aspect of life and now it could strongly impact the campaigns for the upcoming presidential election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate in a bid to win over moderate Republicans in the general election.
President Donald Trump seemed to get into arguments with reporters at the past few coronavirus task force briefings.