"We are here today because the United States Supreme Court is broken ... Pelosi said: "I have no plans to bring it to the floor." The House speaker added: "I support the president's commission ...

I have spent the past couple of days looking through the papers of Justices Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland and Harlan Fiske Stone for my article on Justice Pierce Butler for Vanderbilt Law ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear Thursday that she does not currently support a bill pushed by some Democrats to expand the court and does not intend to bring it to the House floor for a vote.