U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a lower court ordered him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in the state.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she’ll vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
Facing Republican senators’ pointed questions, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is forcefully defending her record as a federal judge. She’s telling senators she will rule “from a position of neutrality” if she is confirmed as the first Black woman on the high court.
Clyburn is making a forceful case for his preferred choice, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, a jurist from his native South Carolina.
Two sources tell The Associated Press that liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court.
The conservative-dominated Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 on the agenda.
The United States Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments in challenges to President Biden’s vaccine mandates for large employers and certain healthcare workers for January 7.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett expressed concerns Sunday that the public may increasingly see the court as a partisan institution. Justices must be “hyper vigilant to make sure they’re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too,” Barrett said at a lecture hosted by the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center.
Governor McMaster announced that he is leading a coalition of 11 other governors urging the Supreme Court to overturn their previous decisions in multiple landmark cases regarding abortion.
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Justice Department’s case against the Boston Marathon bomber. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother set bombs off at the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and injuring hundreds.
