Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the bench's ideological conservative known for his fiery comments in and out of the courtroom, has died. He was 79. Scalia was "a brilliant legal mind with a pugnacious style, incisive wit, and colorful opinions," President Barack Obama said Saturday ...
From left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chief Justice John Roberts participate in a moment of silence during a private ceremony in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court in where the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul ...
The replacement for Scalia, who was a fierce conservative on the court, would be President Barack Obama's third Supreme Court nomination, CBS News reported. Former President Ronald Reagan nominated Scalia to the court in 1986. Many current and former political officials — in...
–Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in oral arguments last week over the Obama Administration’s health care reform law. The Court is expected to announce its final ruling in June. Personally, I support Obama on many issues, including the health care...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering Supreme Court justice who became the second female on the nation's highest court, the leader of its liberal wing and a pop culture icon known as Notorious R.B.G., died Friday night. She was 87. Ginsburg died surrounded by her family at her home in ...
Conservative justices have a lengthy history of addressing the annual Washington meeting of the organization. Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016, spoke on several occasions, as have Thomas and Alito. Gorsuch showed up at the dinner when he was new to the court in 2017, embracing Leonard...
26 when Trump introduced Barrett as his nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last month. Other attendees at that event - many of whom did not wear protective face coverings - have also tested positive. Trump was taken to Walter Reed National Mi...
Mr Obama’s pick will trigger a confrontation with Republicans who have refused to consider his nomination in a presidential election year. The judge would take the seat of conservative judge Antonin Scalia, who died last month, leaving behind a seat that could tip the ideological balance of pow...
Gorsuch will be filling in a year-long vacancy left by late Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016. Former President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to succeed Scalia before his tenure ended, but the Republican-controlled Congress refused to consider the proposal, drawing...
after president obama talked to judge sotomayor, he picked her to be a justice. however, the president doesn't decide who becomes a justice on his own. a maiority of the u.s. senate must agree with his choice. the judiciary committee ...