Meanwhile, in the House, Republicans reelected Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina to lead the National Republican ...

After Republicans secured the 218 votes needed for a majority in the House, Donald Trump has Republican majorities in all of ...

As the Senate’s lame-duck session begins, Biden and Democrats race to confirm judicial nominees before Republicans take ...

The 70-year-old liberal justice plans to stay on the bench, as Donald Trump accuses Democrats of rushing to appoint judges.

The liberal minority on the U.S. Supreme Court may face an even tougher battle under a second Trump administration.One of ...

The use of recess appointments to install members of Donald Trump's Cabinet would circumvent a key Senate process, ...

The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President ...

Despite pressure from some liberal activists urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down so Democrats can fill her seat before political power shifts in January, sources close to the justice say she ...

Immigration advocates say they’re ready this time for Donald Trump and his efforts for mass deportations. Organizations ...

Born six years after the U.S. Civil Rights Act hastened desegregation, Brown became a debate champion and class president at her mostly white high school. In her college applications she declared ...

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