Supreme Court Justice

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has its first Black justice.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate.  Democrats on the committee boycotted the session in protest.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is gone but far from forgotten.

The Senate will vote on the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court on Oct. 22, 2020.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faces a final day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee as Republicans set the stage for a final confirmation vote in two weeks.

Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett chose not to answer questions posed to her by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., during Wednesday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett for her view on if a president can pardon themself. Judge Barrett refused to offer an opinion on the matter, but did agree with Leahy’s assertion that “no one is above the law.”

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was pressed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., about how she would rule on a potential voter intimidation case if it came before her while serving on the court. Judge Barrett refused to forecast how she would rule even though Sen. Klobuchar was able to provide the exact statute making voter intimidation illegal.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., spoke at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to confirm the Supreme Court justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Monday, remembering the legacy of the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose seat the conservative nominee would fill.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., made the case for delaying the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court until after the elections, saying, “What is going on in America today, in the midst of a deadly pandemic, in an ongoing election, having a rushed Supreme Court nomination hearing is not normal and we cannot normalize it.”

Ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., said “healthcare coverage for millions of Americans is at stake” in the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, because President Donald Trump has promised to appoint justices who will vote to undo the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett graduated in 1994 with honors from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. But more than 1,500 alumni of the small liberal arts school have made it known they are not proud of their ties to the conservative lawyer and judge. Barrett graduated magna cum laude with an undergraduate degree in English. She was a…

Roman Catholics account for a bit more than 20% of the U.S. population

The Senate is ready to move quickly on a Supreme Court nominee.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer, Bryant Johnson, honored the late justice with a set of pushups at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

Chief Justice John Roberts remembered his colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as tough, brave and honest during a private ceremony in the court’s Great Hall.

President Donald Trump is urging the Republican-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Her death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle over whether President Donald Trump should...

Across television and streaming services, the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already front and center.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has left the Supreme Court shorthanded during a polarizing presidential campaign.