Ginsburg warned against court packing, said it would make Supreme Court 'look partisan'

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come. Trump's choice to fill the vacancy of the late liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg potentially opens a new era of rulings on abortion, the Affordable Care Act and even his own election.

If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed for the Supreme Court, the credit will go to President Trump for nominating her and the GOP Senate for producing the votes. But Barrett will also owe a big thank you to Sen.

The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a GOP-led effort to block an extended period for counting ballots in the crucial presidential swing state of Pennsylvania.  Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the high court's three liberals, resulting in a 4-4 tie. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh sided with the state GOP.

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear two key cases related to President Trump's immigration policies. One case involves funding for the wall being constructed on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the other deals with the Trump administration's "remain in Mexico" asylum policy.

A Democratic senator from Delaware said Sunday that he is open to adding more justices to the Supreme Court should Democrats capture the White House and Senate in the November election. “Like Joe Biden, I’m not a fan of expanding the court but we have a few weeks here to see whether there are four Republicans who will step back from this precipice," Sen.

Scott Peterson's family is grateful the California Supreme Court ordered a second look at his conviction for killing his pregnant wife and unborn child, his sister-in-law told Fox News on Thursday. The court on Wednesday sent Peterson’s case back to San Mateo County Superior Court after determining that a juror committed "prejudicial misconduct.

The Supreme Court has become a major topic in the lead up to November's election, and in Colorado’s final Senate debate Tuesday night, Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper said the question of “packing the court” was “hypothetical.” Some Congressional Democrats have threatened to “pack the court” if the GOP-controlled Senate pushed through the likely confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett prior to the Nov. 3 election.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear a case on discrepancies among voter signatures on their mail-in ballots, just weeks before the Nov. 3 election.

A shirtless New York state Supreme Court justice was caught on police body cameras shoving a Buffalo cop and dropping his connections to officials during an altercation this summer. Justice Mark Grisanti and his wife, Maria, were handcuffed and placed in the back of police cruisers — though no charges were filed relating to the June 23 incident.

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an attempt by South Carolina Republican lawmakers to block public funding for Planned Parenthood. The case, which sought to omit abortion clinics from the state's Medicaid program, was one of the first reproductive rights cases reviewed by the court since the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

just as Vice President Mike Pence did last week during his televised debate with Sen.

The Michigan Supreme Court on Monday denied Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s request to extend emergency powers that she invoked to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the big ‘Stairway To Heaven’ copyright case, meaning that the most recent ruling in the Ninth Circuit appeals court – in Led Zeppelin’s favour – stands.It was the estate of the late Randy Wolfe, aka Randy California, who sued Led Zeppelin in 2014 claiming that the band’s 1971 track ‘Stairway To Heaven’ ripped off an earlier song called ‘Taurus’, which Wolfe had written for his band Spirit.The case went before a jury in 2016 who ruled that, while it may

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom announced Monday he nominated Martin J. Jenkins as the first openly gay and third Black man to serve as a justice on the California Supreme Court.“Anyone who knows me knows my identity has been as a gay man, perhaps the greatest challenge of my life,” said Jenkins.

John Oliver kicked off his main segment of Sunday's Last Week Tonight by addressing the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18 and President Trump's pick to replace her on the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett.

Amy Coney Barrett is said to be “hostile” to LGBTQ rights

conservative 7th Circuit appeals judge from Indiana who has been a federal judge for three years. Early in her career she also served on George W.

nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday, and Hollywood liberals were not happy about it.Cher tweeted her discontent about Barrett, calling her a “neocon judge” and fearing for the fate of Roe vs.