Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a 1981 Reagan appointee who retired in 2006 and died last December, exemplified the phenomenon.

The US Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in a victory for President Donald Trump a week before the presidential election. Mr Trump's fellow Republicans voted 52-48 ...

As the most partisan justice on the court today, Alito does seem primed to retire under Trump, probably this summer, to ...

The Supreme Court doesn't have any vacancies, but Republicans are keeping a close eye on Justices Alito and Thomas for ...

Justice Clarence Thomas has made a strong case that the Supreme Court is too stubborn in sticking with mistaken precedents. Judge Barrett has not said that she agrees with him, that she thinks the ...

Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court performance is in "dramatic" contrast to conservative Samuel Alito, a legal analyst has told Newsweek. Although nominated by Donald Trump, Coney Barrett has taken a ...

Some liberals called for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before Donald Trump returns to the White House. But Democrats ...

Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson. There is no fixed term for Supreme Court justices. They serve until their death or retirement. They can also be stripped ...

The loss of the White House and the Senate majority will end Democrats’ ability to fill judicial vacancies come January. They ...

Democrats are in frantic talks to push out the most liberal Supreme Court justice so they can replace her before Donald Trump ...

Neither race was won Tuesday, with David P. Sullivan looking like a winner in MS Supreme Court race and the Court of Appeals ...

A CNN legal analyst suggested Vice President Kamala Harris could be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court.Attorney Bakari Sellers, who was a Democratic member of the South Carolina House of ...