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

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

Amy St. Pé and Jennifer Schloegel will compete in a runoff election on Nov. 26 for an open seat on the Mississippi Court of ...

President-elect Donald Trump may soon further cement a Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority, shaping the federal ...

Deciding how to share or divvy up rights to children, pets and embryos can be one of the most emotionally-charged issues in a ...

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 ...

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

Incumbent high court Justice Dawn Beam was defeated by David Sullivan. A Court of Appeals race remains too close to call, ...

His second term will cement that legacy, likely locking in the Supreme ... the court for the foreseeable future. And on and on it goes. The upshot is simple: These two judges share Trump’s ...

Donald Trump's critics warn that he will have "no guardrails" in a second term, but his agenda and his personal impulses won’t proceed entirely unchecked.