Conservative Supreme Court justices were the subject of protests, some at their homes, after the May leak of the court's decision that ultimately stripped away constitutional protections for abortion.
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Chief Justice John Roberts privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save the constitutional right to abortion down to the bitter end, but May's unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made the effort all but impossible.
With the swearing in of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, these are the current members of the U.S. Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a tuition assistance program that allows parents to use vouche…
The court's moves are unprecedented and the most striking development to date in the investigation into who might have provided Politico with the draft opinion it published on May 2.
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Update: Biden blasts 'radical' draft opinion on abortion; Roberts orders probe into 'egregious' leak
Chief Justice John Roberts has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and orders a probe into the "egregious" leak.
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Since his first job as a young lawyer in Washington, John Roberts' work has been entangled with Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that gave women…
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In Pennsylvania, the state Democratic Party and its allies had sought an extension of the Election Day deadline to count mailed ballots. The court next weighs a similar issue in Wisconsin.
Even if Democrats are fighting a losing battle to stop Barrett's confirmation, the public attention on the Supreme Court hearings gives them an opportunity to push a health care message that helped them win the House in 2018 — and they hope will help take back the Senate and White House next month.
President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court in a flag-bedecked ceremony at the White House Rose Garden.
These are the current members of the U.S. Supreme Court:
These are the current members of the U.S. Supreme Court:
These are the current members of the U.S. Supreme Court:
TRUMP: “These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts ... Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?” — tweets Thursday.
On Monday, an alliance of world leaders hosted by the European Union held a virtual summit on vaccine research, pledging to give 7.4 billion euros ($8 billion). The U.S. was notably absent.
The impeachment trial of President Trump quickly burst into a partisan fight. The Senate rejected a number of amendments to impeachment rules; votes and debate continued past midnight Eastern time.
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In 1999, the House managers walked silently across the Capitol to the Senate, where the sergeant-at-arms escorted them to the well of the chamber, and Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., then the House Judiciary Committee chairman, read the impeachment articles aloud. When he finished, Hyde said, "That concludes the exposition of the articles of impeachment against William Jefferson Clinton. The managers request that the Senate take order for the trial."
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John Paul Stevens, who served on the Supreme Court for nearly 35 years before retiring in 2010, has died. He was 99.
Chief Justice John Roberts is showing a new willingness to side with the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing after the divisive confirmation fight over Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
WASHINGTON — Late-night rulings that touched on abortion, the death penalty and religious rights provided new insight into the alliances on the reconstituted Supreme Court and showed that even when justices try to avoid controversy, controversy finds them.
'Maybe I didn't return her phone call': Trump ridicules Coulter, slams Fox News in fallout over wall
WASHINGTON — Macbeth suffered from hubris, Hamlet from self-doubt. The fatal flaw that some conservative pundits fear could lead President Donald Trump, otherwise their hero, to his downfall is his failure to keep his promise to build the wall. But is this winter's tale about the southern border a tragedy or a farce? "The course of true love never did run smooth," observes a star-crossed lover in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."