President Donald Trump named three justices in his first term, establishing a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court ...
Trump may ultimately defy judges and the rule of law, but at first he’ll bid for Supreme Court recognition of vastly expanded ...
The former Senate leader's 2016 move to block Merrick Garland's nomination was a "total concoction to give the gloss of authority." ...
While it was once rare for an administration to change its position in cases before the high court, Trump did so in his first ...
The court has likewise narrowed the scope of criminal laws targeting public corruption, holding that bribery laws require an ...
While the Constitution does not specify who must administer oaths, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to swear in Donald Trump on Monday, continuing a two-century-old tradition.
Jill Barton, University of Miami (THE CONVERSATION) The current Supreme Court has upended historic precedent ... Gorsuch’s predecessor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, was known as a gifted, dramatic ...
When the Supreme Court justices first shared ... In January 2017, the justices numbered only eight. Justice Antonin Scalia had died on February 13, 2016, and Senate Republicans had blocked any ...
How are justices appointed ... Casey at the Bat & the Supreme Court Yes, the Supreme Court has many relationships with baseball. George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School professor ...
The specter of a federal prosecutor putting a city’s mayor or a state’s governor in jail raises constitutional questions.