The Wall Street Journal published an editorial discussing recent calls by House Republicans to end the Senate's filibuster. "A GOP Senate majority," the piece concludes, "should refuse to let Democrats filibuster a conservative Supreme Court nominee. But giving up the filibuster over policy now would be a futile gesture that liberals would exploit to expand government in the future."
Tony Mauro writes in the National Law Journal about the increasingly prominent role that the future of the Supreme Court is playing in the 2016 presidential race. Certain Republican candidates, he says, say they will require nominees with a longer "paper trail" of proven judicial philosophy. Democratic candidates have focused on selecting justices opposed to the Citizens United decision.
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz discussed the divergent records of Democratic and Republican administrations on Supreme Court nominations. While Democrats are "batting almost 1.000" in selecting "radical leftist nutcase[s]," he asserted, Republican nominees have been split evenly between those who uphold their oath to defend the Constitution and "screaming train wreck disasters." Read more at Politico.
Volkswagen AG has suspended sales of some diesel-powered car models in the United States in response to allegations that the company used software to make the cars' emissions appear lower for regulators. The EPA claims the violations could lead to over $18 billion in statutory fines. Read more at the Wall Street Journal.
Google continues its legal battle against French regulators, who have refused to drop a case demanding the internet giant comply with Europe's "right to be forgotten." Respecting "right to be forgotten" requests from European citizens would force Google to remove information from search results that the individuals assert to be "out of date, irrelevant or inflammatory." Read more at the New York Times.
