U.S. Supreme Court

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to put a hold on a court ruling in the battleground state that extends the deadline in November’s election to receive and count mailed-in ballots. In Monday’s filing, Republicans argue that the three-day extension violates federal law that sets Election Day as the first Tuesday in November and that...

President Donald Trump isn’t providing all the facts when he promises that people with preexisting medical problems will always be covered by health insurance if “Obamacare” is ruled unconstitutional.

The Republican National Committee is putting Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation fight front and center with voters just weeks before Election Day

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor and current judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, says she is a firm supporter of the Constitution

Connecticut leaders are reacting to the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, said she was “truly humbled” by the nomination and quickly aligned herself with Scalia’s conservative approach to the law, saying that his “judicial philosophy is mine, too.” Barrett, 48, was joined in the...

The casket of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrived at the Supreme Court Wednesday morning for the start of two days of public viewing

Jimmy Fallon addresses the Republican Senate voting to fill the empty Supreme Court seat prior to the president announcing his nominee.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a towering advocate of liberal causes on the U.S. Supreme Court and her death leaves a void that President Trump is likely to seek to fill with an ideological opposite. David Corn of Mother Jones and former U.S. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal joined LX News to explain how health insurance and reproductive rights for...

Democrats are accusing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of blatant hypocrisy after he pledged a Senate vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Republicans rushing to fill the Supreme Court seat left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, who endorsed waiting eight months until after the 2016 election to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, has not said whether he will support Senate consideration of a nominee in the weeks before November’s election.

After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday, impromptu memorials sprang up around the nation’s capital and across the country as people celebrated her legacy and mourned her death.

As dozens gathered for a vigil in Stamford on Sunday, many remembered the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “She’s affected the lives of so many people in our country,” said Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz. House Republican Leader Themis Klarides tweeted: “She was a legal pioneer, true role model for women of all ages, and a...

Dozens gathered for a vigil for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Stamford on Sunday as the fight over filling her seat on the court begins to gear up.

While many are remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s accomplishments, the fight over filling her seat on the court is already heating up.

If Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly wins a seat in the U.S. Senate, he could take office as early as Nov. 30

“Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague,” said Chief Justice John Roberts

After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday from metastatic pancreatic cancer, politicians from both sides of the aisle took to social media to offer their condolences.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the U.S. Supreme Court justice who broke gender barriers, told her granddaughter before she died that her wish was not to have seat filled until a new president is elected. “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ruth Bader Ginsburg told her granddaughter, Clara Spera, in the days before her death,...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dedication to the law was perhaps best illustrated by the fact that she always kept a “pocket Constitution” in her handbag. Ginsburg died Friday evening, at the age of 87.  Her notable rulings as a Supreme Court justice included: The 1996 landmark United States v. Virginia, in which she wrote the majority opinion striking down Virginia Military Institute’s traditional...