Philip Ewing
Philip Ewing is an election security editor with NPR's Washington Desk. He helps oversee coverage of election security, voting, disinformation, active measures and other issues. Ewing joined the Washington Desk from his previous role as NPR's national security editor, in which he helped direct coverage of the military, intelligence community, counterterrorism, veterans and more. He came to NPR in 2015 from Politico, where he was a Pentagon correspondent and defense editor. Previously, he served as managing editor of Military.com, and before that he covered the U.S. Navy for the Military Times newspapers.
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The Idaho senator sought to puncture what he called Democrats' caricature of Amy Coney Barrett as someone who, despite her claims, would bring an activist mindset to the Supreme Court.
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The Rhode Island senator followed a day of connection-making with a plea for Amy Coney Barrett to consider and possibly act against practices Whitehouse called bad for the high court.
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The Supreme Court nominee discussed voting laws, rights and practices with her Democratic questioners on her third day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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President Trump suggested the 2020 election could wind up as a case before the Supreme Court, but his nominee said Tuesday she does not view herself as his justice and would treat the matter fairly.
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When majority Republicans don't need to make a case to sell their candidate, they're free to ask her broader, gentler and, sometimes, random questions.
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The Supreme Court nominee didn't say she would recuse and didn't say she wouldn't in the event a Trump election case came before the high court, but she agreed to evaluate the matter on its merits.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member is trying to pin down Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on policy and legal questions — and she is trying to avoid committing to nearly anything.
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Assured about the likelihood of victory in confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the Judiciary Committee majority stressed the importance of the government's separate powers.
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GOP members on the Senate Judiciary Committee decry what they call inappropriate questioning about Amy Coney Barrett's Catholic faith and call it un-American persecution of her religion.
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Minority members on the Senate Judiciary Committee are alluding frequently to the pending election — and in at least one case, asking that the Supreme Court nominee agree to keep out of it.