At 70 years old, Sotomayor is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on the Court, which has a 6-3 conservative supermajority.

Americans in an array of states sent a message to the incoming Trump administration and other elected officials: They won't ...

Yet those checks by Congress and the Supreme Court will hardly be a check at all once Trump is ... (The House majority won’t ...

A New York judge is set to decide this week whether President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction on charges involving ...

If ever a U.S. president needed the checks and balances that the founders established, it’s law-breaking, oath-violating ...

Experts say President-elect Trump will reliably fall back on previous judicial philosophies and original appellate appointees ...

Some liberal activists have called for the 70-year-old Obama appointee to retire political power changes hands in January.

Barrett, the youngest justice on the Supreme Court, has shown signs of being willing to work across the aisle.

Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an “impeccably ...

Abortion and reproductive rights have been a divisive issue in the United States since Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022 and figured heavily in the election campaign.

Trump would also face a potentially steep decline in the stock market if he appeared to seriously threaten the independence of the Fed, some experts said. Bank executives and other business leaders ...

President-elect Donald Trump pledged to follow though with mass deportations, in an interview with NBC News. USA TODAY ...