Former Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer were also in attendance. Like every justice who has taken the oath since 1972, Jackson began the ceremony by sitting in the chair used by Chief ...

Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate’s responsibility to vet nominees were ...

Some conservatives have already warned about consequences. Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond has sued ...

Despite the facile comments that the president is “entitled” to have the Cabinet secretaries and of his own choosing, the ...

Congress has the sole constitutional power to declare war, even if presidents frequently usurp that authority. It can fire ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump, who moved the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically rightward in his first term, may get a chance to rejuvenate its 6-3 conservative majority by ...

With President-elect Donald Trump having made some highly controversial picks for his incoming cabinet — among them, former ...

"I think it likely that one or both of Justices Thomas and Alito step down in the next presidential term, and perhaps the chief justice ... her predecessor Stephen Breyer was a fellow liberal.

There is no meaningful question about whether Trump’s scheme violates the spirit of the Constitution. Advice and consent ...

The only word on this is from Breyer’s opinion in NLRB v. Canning. But the Supreme Court’s newer conservative members may not ...