Antonin Scalia

Congressional Democrats plan to unveil legislation expanding the size of the Supreme Court on Thursday, according to three congressional sources familiar with the closely held measure. The bill would add four seats to the high court.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is considered a candidate for the Supreme Court after Biden promised to name a black woman for the first time in history.

The flashing lights went on. A policeman stuck his foot under the door. Now, the Supreme Court will decide if a warrantless search was constitutional.

As the attorney general nomination hearing opens, Grassley offers no remorse about 2016, when Obama tried to fill Scalia's seat with Garland.

Merrick Garland, President Biden's nominee to be attorney general, gathered valuable lessons from his experience overseeing the investigation of the Oklahoma...

"You don't really need to go to law school to get what's wrong with that argument," said Rep. Jamie Raskin.

Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland would need to restore the Justice Department's integrity — and oversee a sedition investigation. Is he right for it?

With a conservative 6-3 majority, observers say Associate Justice Samuel Alito is in a pivotal position as he marks 15 years on the Supreme Court.

Trump will go down in history as the Republican president who fulfilled his party's perhaps greatest agenda, one that was thirty years in the making

It is not too late to enforce norms, to make a clear statement about the limits of presidential behavior. It's too risky to simply wait for Joe Biden.

In striking language Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden excoriated President Donald Trump for "inciting a mob" to attack the U.S. Capitol, calling it one of...

Presidentelect Joe Biden has announced Merrick Garland as his pick for attorney general, saying the federal appeals court judge and three others he has...

President-elect Joe Biden has announced Merrick Garland as his pick for attorney general, saying the federal appeals court judge and three others he has...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the...

The former federal judge and law school professor joined the court amid a pandemic, a hotly contested election and an avalanche of high-profile cases.

Blindly obeying every rule strips us of our humane and caring instincts. Coronavirus restrictions are there to protect us, but we must look to our hearts...

WASHINGTON — Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated as President...

Rudy Giuliani learned through experience that Trump is a danger to our health. Think of Covid-19 as a feature, not a bug, for those in the president's orbit ...

Texas surpassed 9,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients Tuesday for the first time since a deadly summer outbreak as the pandemic's spread threatened the Big...