President-elect Joe Biden announced on Dec. 10 that he will appoint Katherine Tai, a Taiwanese American, as U.S. trade representative, a position that is subject to Senate confirmation. According to the Biden-Harris transition team, “Katherine Tai is a dedicated, deeply respected public servant and veteran international trade expert who has spent her career working toRead More

The World Trade Organization has released a new report that offers recommendations to world governments on how to stimulate innovation in digital economies. Regrettably, the policy recommendations are heavy on big government intervention, and ignore a fundamental principal of free-market economics: that governments should first and foremost get out of the way of competitive entrepreneurial activity.

Fixing the global trading system means first coming to grips with why it is broken

Some liberals are eager for President-elect Joe Biden to nominate the first Black woman to the court.

Mitch McConnell has informed senators that without unanimous consent, January 20 is likely the earliest a trial could begin, overshadowing start of Biden administration

A combination of the Georgia Senate races, arcane rules of committee procedure, and the political climate are delaying what has been a decades-long tradition of presidents having their national security team in place on Inauguration Day.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson received her commission as a United States District Judge in March of 2013. Until December of 2014, she also served as a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission.

Immediately before joining the court, Justice Kruger served in the United States Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. From 2007 to 2013, she served in the Department as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and as Acting Deputy Solicitor General. During her tenure in the Office of the Solicitor General, she argued 12 cases in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government. In 2013 and in 2014, she received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the Department’s highest award for employee performance.

NY Democrat Gregory Meeks rules out conditioning defense aid to Israel on accepting a Palestinian state, but indicates Congress will support efforts to reenter Iran nuclear deal

Bob Menendez is poised to become the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee following Democratic pickups of two U.S. Senate seats in