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Kevin Daley

Kevin Daley is an investigative journalist for The Daily Caller News Foundation. He focuses mostly on covering the Supreme Court. Follow him on Twitter @KevinDaleyDC.

Society

Supreme Court May Soon Decide On Transgender Bathrooms In Public Schools; Case Joins One of Several…

Kevin Daley Mar 15, 2019

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will decide whether it will hear a challenge to a Pennsylvania school district policy that allows transgender students to use locker room and restroom facilities that align with their stated gender…

Politics

Beto: Packing The Supreme Court Is “An Idea We Should Explore”

Kevin Daley Mar 14, 2019

IOWA - Democratic presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke said he is open to adding seats on the Supreme Court during a Thursday campaign stop. Speaking at a coffee shop in Burlington, Iowa, O’Rourke said adding six seats…

U.S. News

Chief Justice Roberts Votes With Liberal Justices in Recent Months on Cases Touching Abortion,…

Kevin Daley Mar 13, 2019

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John Roberts has made common cause with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc as late, breaking with his conservative colleagues on cases relating to abortion, the death penalty and President Donald Trump’s…

Politics

Senate Republicans Advance Neomi Rao Who Blamed Women For Date Rape; Lifetime Seat on U.S. Court of…

Kevin Daley Mar 13, 2019

WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Neomi Rao to succeed Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit early Wednesday afternoon. The 53-46 vote followed party lines. Rao overcame Democrats…

Politics

Adam Schiff Says Special Counsel Robert Mueller Should Seek President Donald Trump’s Sworn Testimony…

Kevin Daley Mar 10, 2019

WASHINGTON - Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff of California said special counsel Robert Mueller should seek President Donald Trump’s sworn testimony Sunday, but seemed to acknowledge that outcome was unlikely. Schiff, who chairs…

Business

President Trump Taps Seven of Justice Clarence Thomas’s Former Clerks for Appeals Court Nominations…

Kevin Daley Mar 10, 2019

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas participated in a discussion hosted by the Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program. During a sit down with Judge Gregory Maggs with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces,…

Society

Christian Baker Jack Phillips and Colorado Civil Rights Commission Have Resolved Legal Dispute Over…

Kevin Daley Mar 5, 2019

COLORADO - Christian baker Jack Phillips and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) have resolved a legal dispute that set Phillips’ religious beliefs against the state’s public accommodations law. The deal, announced Tuesday…

Business

Cancer Surgery Didn’t Slow Justice Ginsburg’s Work Down As She Delivers Two New Supreme Court Case…

Kevin Daley Mar 4, 2019

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion in two Supreme Court cases decided Monday, bringing her total output for the current term to four, higher than any of her colleagues. The justice continues to…

Religion

Supreme Court Justice’s See Discrimination Issues If Government Deny’s Historic…

Kevin Daley Mar 4, 2019

The Supreme Court justices gathered for a new photo with the addition of new Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch both joined the Kavanaugh opinion that they will need to decide whether governments may deny…

Politics

Jerry Nadler: It’s Very Clear That the President Obstructed Justice; We Will Be Issuing Document…

Kevin Daley Mar 3, 2019

NEW YORK - House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler said he believes that President Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice, though he stopped just short of calling for his impeachment. Speaking Sunday on ABC’s…

Politics

Nomination of Neomi Rao to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Exposed Oft-Ignored…

Kevin Daley Mar 2, 2019

WASHINGTON - The nomination of Neomi Rao to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit exposed oft-ignored fissures within the right-wing legal establishment, aggravating social conservatives who feel their priorities have been…

Politics

Graham: We’re Going to Process As Many Conservative Judges As We Can; Judges, More Judges, Then Some…

Kevin Daley Feb 28, 2019

MARYLAND - GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the newly-minted chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that his panel will move on judicial confirmations at an…

Religion

MONUMENTAL: Atheist Group Wants WWI Memorial In Shape of Cross Torn Down; Boys Of Peace Cross Fate…

Kevin Daley Feb 27, 2019

MARYLAND - A 40-foot Celtic cross sits in the center of a roundabout in Bladensburg, Maryland. On its pedestal are inscribed the names of 49 local boys killed in the First World War. That veterans memorial — known colloquially as…

Business

Journalist Groups Alarmed By Justice’s Call To Reconsider Free Press Ruling; New York Times v.…

Kevin Daley Feb 22, 2019

WASHINGTON - Professional journalism groups reacted with alarm after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged the high court Tuesday to reconsider a landmark freedom of the press decision called New York Times v. Sullivan. The…

Health

No Execution For Texas Inmate; Supreme Court Rules He Is Disabled

Kevin Daley Feb 19, 2019

TEXAS - The Supreme Court practically foreclosed the possibility that a Texas inmate named Bobby James Moore will be executed, finding Tuesday that Moore is intellectually disabled. Moore was convicted and sentenced to death in 1980…

U.S. News

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Returns To Supreme Court

Kevin Daley Feb 19, 2019

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the bench at the Supreme Court Tuesday, the first time she has heard arguments since her treatment for lung cancer in December 2018. The justice’s presence at Tuesday’s arguments was…

Legal

Becerra: State of California Will “Definitely and Imminently” File Lawsuit To Challenge…

Kevin Daley Feb 18, 2019

CALIFORNIA - California and a coalition of left-leaning states are expected to file a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration as soon as Monday. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra told ABC…

Crime

Weiner On The Loose: Disgraced Ex-Politician Leaves Jail For Halfway House in Brooklyn; Sentence…

Kevin Daley Feb 17, 2019

BROOKLYN - Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has been transferred from a federal detention facility in Devens, Massachusetts, to a residential reentry center in Brooklyn, New York, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Weiner…

Politics

Trump Sued Over National Emergency Declaration Within Six Hours

Kevin Daley Feb 16, 2019

WASHINGTON - Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer group, filed the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration concerning the southern border Friday night. The complaint, lodged in the…

Business

Former Justice of West Virginia Supreme Court Sentenced to Two-Year Prison Term for Fraud and Lying…

Kevin Daley Feb 15, 2019

WEST VIRGINIA - Allen Loughry, a former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, was sentenced to a two-year prison term Wednesday, following his conviction for fraud and lying to federal investigators. U.S. District…

Politics

Senate Votes to Confirm William Barr As New Attorney General

Kevin Daley Feb 14, 2019

WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed William Barr as the new attorney general Thursday afternoon, returning Barr for a second tour atop the Department of Justice. The confirmation vote largely followed party lines — GOP Sen. Rand Paul…

Health

Chris Christie Condemns Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris for Joking About Marijuana Legalization…

Kevin Daley Feb 12, 2019

NEW YORK - Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie condemned Democratic presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris on Fox News Monday night, after Harris endorsed the legalization of marijuana on a radio program earlier in…

Health

Forthcoming Biography of Chief Justice John Roberts Reveals New Details Of Roberts’s Obamacare…

Kevin Daley Feb 3, 2019

NEW YORK - A forthcoming biography of Chief Justice John Roberts contains the first account of the Supreme Court’s internal politicking over the 2012 NFIB v. Sebelius decision, in which Roberts joined with the Court’s four liberals to…

Society

Supreme Court Weighing Emergency Petition from Louisiana That Could Mark Beginning of Major Changes…

Kevin Daley Feb 1, 2019

BATON ROUGE - The Supreme Court is weighing an emergency petition from Louisiana that could mark the beginning of major changes to abortion jurisprudence. The application asks the justices to block implementation of a state law…

U.S. News

Trump Proposes Wall-for-DACA in Bid to End Shutdown; Extends Temporary Legal Status to 700,000…

Kevin Daley Jan 19, 2019

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump proposed an immigration deal to reopen the government Saturday, which included a three-year extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Trump’s overture to…