LIVE: USPS unveils postal stamp honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The U.S. Postal Service will hold a first-day-of-issue ceremony to unveil a stamp honoring late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. USPS says the new Forever stamp honoring Ginsburg celebrates her "her groundbreaking contributions to justice, gender equality and the rule of law." Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp with a portrait by Michael J. Deas based on a photograph by Philip Bermingham.
Abortion rights backers rally in anger over post-Roe future
Abortion rights supporters are demonstrating at hundreds of marches and rallies where they're expressing their outrage that the Supreme Court appears prepared to scrap the constitutional right to abortion that has endured for nearly a half-century.
Dems renew questions about FBI background check of Kavanaugh
Senate Democrats are raising new concerns about the thoroughness of the FBIโs background investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI revealed that it had received thousands of tips and had provided โall relevantโ ones to the White House counselโs office.
43 years ago, Sandra Day OโConnor blazed a historic trail for women in the legal profession
Sandra Day OโConnor not only had a degree from one of the most prestigious universities in the world -- Stanford University in California -- but also a law degree she earned from the same institution in just two years.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers 1st opinion
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett has delivered her first opinion. Barrett wrote for the court that certain draft documents do not have to be disclosed under FOIA. The 11-page opinion comes in the first case Barrett heard after joining the court in late October following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)WASHINGTON โ Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered her first opinion Thursday, ruling against an environmental group that had sought access to government records.
Inauguration fashion: Purple, pearls, American designers
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)Joe Biden and Kamala Harris showcased American designers at their inauguration Wednesday, and Harris gave a nod to women's suffrage, Shirley Chisholm and her beloved sorority in pearls and purple. Pearls had a strong fashion showing, in line with a social media campaign that had inauguration watchers donning strands in support and celebration of Harris. โIf thereโs a message to be taken from todayโs inauguration fashion, itโs that those who attended are signaling faith in unity and bipartisanship, as well as restoring truth and trust,โ Torgerson said. Another inauguration fashion star on Twitter was Nikolas Ajagu, the husband of Harris' niece, Meena Harris. It was updated on January 21, 2021, to correct the fact that Meena Harris is Vice President Kamala Harrisโ niece, not her sister.
Biden to name Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
President-elect Joe Biden is set to name Garland as Attorney General. Biden is expected to announce Garlandโs appointment on Thursday, along with other senior leaders of the department, including former homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco as deputy attorney general and former Justice Department civil rights chief Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general, the No. Garland was selected over other finalists including former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. At the time of the bombing, Garland was 42 and principal associate deputy attorney general, a top lieutenant to Attorney General Janet Reno. Eric Holder, President Barack Obamaโs first attorney general, had also previously been a Superior Court judge in the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court won't get involved in Louisiana pastor's case
WASHINGTON โ The Supreme Court is for now staying out of a dispute involving the state of Louisiana and a Baton Rouge-area pastor charged with violating state coronavirus restrictions by repeatedly holding large church services. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday evening turned away a request from Life Tabernacle Church pastor Tony Spell to get involved in the dispute. Alito denied the request himself, without asking Louisiana officials to respond and without referring the matter to the full court as often happens when a case is particularly significant or contentious. Spell sued state and local officials in May after being charged with violating state restrictions. Lower courts ruled against him.
After criticism, Feinstein to step down as top Judiciary Dem
WASHINGTON โ California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Monday she will step down from her role as the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving up the powerful spot after public criticism of her bipartisan outreach and her handling of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings. Feinstein, 87, said in a statement that she would not seek the position in the next Congress. 2 Democrat, said he will seek to replace Feinstein as the committee's top Democrat. He led daily news conferences during breaks in the hearings with the other Democrats on the panel while Feinstein usually did not appear. โItโs time for Sen. Feinstein to step down from her leadership position on the Senate Judiciary Committee,โ said Brian Fallon, the executive director of Demand Justice, which opposes conservative nominees to the courts.
Girl Scouts tweet, then delete post about Amy Coney Barrett
A tweet by the Girl Scouts congratulating new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett drew such outrage from Barrettโs critics that the youth organization swiftly deleted it โ only to draw a new backlash from Barrettโs supporters. As the online criticism mounted, the Girl Scouts deleted their original tweet and posted a new statement. Girl Scouts of the USA is a nonpolitical, nonpartisan organization. There was no immediate reply from the Girl Scouts' media spokeswoman to an Associated Press request for additional comment and for any details on whether Barrett had been in the Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts, along with the Boy Scouts of America and other youth organizations, have experienced membership declines in recent years, for reasons ranging from busy family schedules to the lure of online games and social media.
Organizers exhort women to vote for change at US rallies
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - With the U.S Capitol in the back ground demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. She talked about the power of women to end Trumpโs presidency. โHis presidency began with women marching and now itโs going to end with woman voting. โVote for your daughter's future,โ read one message in the sea of signs carried by demonstrators. โPeople need to get out and vote,โ Palmer told those at the event.
Barrett cites 'Ginsburg rule' that Ginsburg didn't follow
FILE - In this Aug. 10, 1993, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes the court oath from Chief Justice William Rehnquist, right, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)WASHINGTON โ Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett invoked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday in refusing to discuss her view of gay rights and the Constitution. โJustice Ginsburg with her characteristic pithiness used this to describe how a nominee should comport herself at a hearing. But everybody calls it the Ginsburg rule because she stated it so concisely,โ Barrett said of the woman whose seat she would take if confirmed.
Justice Ginsburg buried at Arlington in private ceremony
(Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)ARLINGTON, Va. โ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, laid to rest beside her husband and near some of her former colleagues on the court. Ginsburgโs husband Martin Ginsburg was buried at Arlington in 2010 following his death from cancer. Nine other justices are buried in that section, including three that Ginsburg served with. The last justice to be buried at the cemetery was retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who died in 2019 at the age of 99. In addition to Stevens, the other justices Ginsburg served with who are buried at the cemetery are Blackmun and Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
โDissentersโ pay tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, call for pause on replacement
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. โ Dozens of activists gathered Saturday on the steps of the Duval County Courthouse to pay tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and speak in opposition to her seat being filled before the election. Itโs disheartening.โThe rally also included Judge-elect Rhonda Peoples Waters, the first Black woman to be elected to a county court seat in Duval County. โI thought it was important for me to be here to honor RBG and what she has done for so many of us and especially me,โ Peoples Waters said. Senate Republicans are readying for confirmation hearings in two weeks, with a vote in the full chamber now expected before Election Day. The move has sparked an outcry, particularly among Democrats, who believe a pick should not be confirmed until after the election.
Ginsburg makes history at Capitol amid replacement turmoil
Ginsburg died at the age of 87 on Sept. 18 and is the first women to lie in state at the Capitol. Mourners gathered to honor Ginsburg under coronavirus distancing restrictions with the nation in political turmoil. Spectators booed and chanted โvote him outโ as the president stood silently near Ginsburgโs casket at the top of the courtโs front steps. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the first Jewish person to lie in state at the Capitol. As visitors paid tribute at Ginsburgโs casket, resting atop the catafalque used for Abraham Lincoln, the Bidens quietly joined.
High court fight adds to pile of issues weighing on voters
Several polls ahead of the 2016 presidential election suggested Trump supporters were at least somewhat more likely to say Supreme Court nominations mattered to them. But more recent polling shows the gap between Trump and Biden voters has narrowed โ or even reversed. And an August CNN poll found 47% of Biden supporters, but just 32% of Trump supporters, labeled nominations as โextremelyโ important to them. But with a Supreme Court vacancy, he again is swallowing hard to support Biden in November. But many Trump supporters backed the presidentโs push to fill the seat now, hypocrisy be damned.
Trump, Biden fight to define campaign's most pressing issues
Since Ginsburg's death on Friday sparked a battle over the future of the Supreme Court, Trump and Biden have fought to define the lens through which voters view the 2020 contest. Biden wants the election to be a referendum on Trump and his failure to control a pandemic that has killed 200,000 Americans or address the nation's larger health care issues. Trump wants to focus on the court fight to unite the party and energize the GOP's base. Those close to the Trump campaign privately acknowledge it's helpful mostly because it shifts the conversation away from Trump's divisive leadership. His next Supreme Court nomination would be his third.
The Latest: Trump boasts about how many court picks he's had
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, on Sept. 18, 2020, the Supreme Court announced. ___HEREโS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT VACANCYโ President Donald Trump says he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday. โ Kamala Harris is poised to become a leading figure in the Democratic opposition to Trumpโs Supreme Court pick. โ The body of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court this week. ___Follow APโs Supreme Court coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/ruth-bader-ginsburg___7:40 p.m.A Republican senator in a tough reelection race will consider President Donald Trumpโs nominee to the Supreme Court.
The Latest: WH leaves it to McConnell to decide vote timing
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON โ The Latest on the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Donald Trump's effort to appoint a successor (all times local):2:25 p.m. But Short tells CNNโs โState of the Unionโ that the White House is leaving the confirmation timetable up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have publicly indicated they would not support a confirmation vote before Election Day. Murkowski joins Maine Sen. Susan Collins among Republicans opposed to confirming a successor to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has pledged to move forward but hasnโt set a timetable.
Media celebrates Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life, legacy
NEW YORK โ Across television and streaming services, the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was already front and center Saturday, a day after her death at 87. โFor so many of us, Justice Ginsburg was a real-life superhero: a beacon of hope, a warrior for justice, a robed crusader who saved the day time and again," McKinnon said. On MSNBC, a past profile, โJustice Ginsburg,โ was re-broadcast as word of her death spread. Joining the live coverage will be Chris Scalia, a son of Ginsburg's close friend and colleague, late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Fox News Channel will present a one hour special on the life and legacy of Ginsburg on Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern, anchored by Shannon Bream.
'We (Heart) You RBG': NY celebrates Ginsburg, homegrown icon
Leroy McCarthy carries a self-made road sign which honors Brooklyn born Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and rapper Christopher Wallace or "The Notorious B.I.G." on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. McCarthy placed the sign in front of the childhood home of Ginsburg who died Sept. 18. A legal trailblazer and champion of womenโs rights, she became the high courtโs second female justice in 1993. Ginsburg first gained fame as a litigator for the Womenโs Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union before her appointment to the high court.
How Ginsburg's death could reshape the presidential campaign
The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)NEW YORK โ A presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nationโs most searing divides has been jolted by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, potentially reshaping the election at a moment when some Americans were beginning to cast ballots. That decision cast a long political shadow, prompting Pete Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor who mounted a spirited bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, to make expansion of the Supreme Court a centerpiece of his campaign. Some Democrats privately concede that the Supreme Court vacancy could shift attention away from the virus, which has been a central element of Biden's campaign. The president, seeking to build the same type of energy that surrounded his 2016 bid, released another list of potential Supreme Court nominees this month.
Hundreds gather at Supreme Court to mourn Ginsburg's death
People gather at the Supreme Court Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in Washington, after the Supreme Court announced that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)WASHINGTON โ Hundreds of people gathered Friday night outside the Supreme Court, singing in a candlelight vigil and weeping together as they mourned the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The large group of mourners packed the high courtโs steps and the street across from the U.S. Capitol in a nighttime memorial. Jennifer Berger, 37, said she felt compelled to join the large crowd that gathered to pay tribute to Ginsburgโs life. Supreme Court police officers stood alongside the crowd and the man eventually left the area.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
FILE - In this July 31, 2014, file photo, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen in her chambers in at the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court says Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)WASHINGTON โ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering womenโs rights champion who became the courtโs second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. โRuth Bader Ginsburg does not need a seat on the Supreme Court to earn her place in the American history books,โ Clinton said at the time of her appointment.
Justice Ginsburg treated in hospital for possible infection
FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019, file photo Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks with author Jeffrey Rosen at the National Constitution Center Americas Town Hall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Can a Supreme Court Justice be impeached?
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in to the Supreme Court about a year ago, but a newly investigated allegation in a New York Times report has people calling for his impeachment. Democratic leadership has brought up impeachment proceedings on President Trump multiple times, and two presidents have been impeached in America's history, but can the government actually impeach a Supreme Court justice who holds a lifetime position? The process of impeaching a Supreme Court justice is very similar to impeaching a president. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. https://t.co/Yg1eh0CkNl Julin Castro (@JulianCastro) September 15, 2019This new allegation and additional corroborating evidence adds to a long list of reasons why Brett Kavanaugh should not be a Supreme Court justice.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during the Cinema Cafe with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Nina Totenberg during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival at Filmmaker Lodge on January 21, 2018 inWASHINGTON (CNN) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday. "The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the court said. She was treated for early stages of pancreatic cancer in 2009. The oldest Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg leads the liberal wing on the court which is currently outnumbered 5-4 by conservatives. Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is getting a Sam Adams beer brewed after her
If you love the smell of beer and the sweet smell of justice, then Sam Adams' new brew named after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is right up your ally. The Boston-based brewery made a special beer dedicated to Notorious RBG (her nickname that millennials lovingly call her) that will only be available on March 29 at the Sam Adams brewery, reports Boston.com. Tickets to the special tasting event are $20. Hop-maker Yakima Chief brewed this special batch of beer, and $5 from every ticket sold to the beer tasting event will go back to the Pink Boots Society. We are just a tad jealous that we won't be able to taste this RBG-themed beer in person, but fingers crossed that Sam Adams bottles the beer so everyone can try it.