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President Trump, the first self-proclaimed billionaire to occupy the White House, has long asserted that he is one of the world’s best businessmen and investors. But these days, as stocks tumble because of the coronavirus outbreak, he’s losing money like everyone else. Mr. Trump doesn’t have a lot of his wealth in the stock or […]

The list below is part of a broad examination in The New York Times of President Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary. 2nd Circuit (Connecticut, New York, Vermont) Joseph F. Bianco, U.S. District Court judge. Born in 1966 in Flushing, N.Y. Graduated from Columbia Law and Seminary of the Immaculate Conception. Spent nearly a decade

The coronavirus outbreak is inflicting new disruptions on the 2020 presidential campaign by the day, but few compare to Louisiana’s decision on Friday to reschedule its upcoming primary election. It was a highly unusual development in an American political campaign, though not an entirely unprecedented one. So how much disruption can voters expect in the

We know you probably didn’t come to a politics roundup for more news about the coronavirus. But it has upended the Democratic primary, Washington and politics writ large just as it has upended sports, culture and the rest of society. So let’s get you caught up on that and the rest of the week in

President Trump made overhauling the federal judiciary one of his top priorities, moving with particular speed to infuse the highly influential appeals courts with reliably conservative judges. Working with his Republican allies in the Senate, he installed 51 judges in just three years — appointing more than a quarter of the appellate bench at a

For the first time in the long Democratic primary campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will meet in a one-on-one debate, facing off Sunday night as Mr. Sanders fights for the future of his candidacy against a rival who has taken a commanding position in the race.

“Emergency orders I’m issuing today will also confer broad new authority to the secretary of health and human services. The secretary of H.H.S. will be able to immediately waive provisions of applicable laws and regulations to give doctors and all hospitals and health care providers maximum flexibility to respond to the virus and care for

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department this week hosted training for its lawyers on religious liberty laws as part of Attorney General William P. Barr’s push to prioritize religious freedom cases, but the workshops prompted concern among some career lawyers that they were being educated on ways to blunt civil rights protections for gay and transgender

WASHINGTON — The entire federal appeals court in Washington said on Friday that it would take up two cases that raised the question of whether and when Congress may sue to resolve a dispute with the president, setting up a double-barreled test for establishing when the judicial branch can resolve disputes over separation of powers.

One night this week an urgent appeal went out to a Facebook group of emergency room doctors. “If you were in charge of the Federal response to the Pandemic what would your recommendations be?” asked Dr. Kurt Kloss, a physician based in New York. The question was hardly theoretical. “I have direct channel,” he added,