Coaxing aging Supreme Court justices to give up their power and status during a window of political opportunity can be a ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda could face pushback from an institution he has done much to shape: the ...

Former President Donald Trump’s return to power is setting off a flurry of speculation and interparty bickering about potential retirements on the Supreme Court, underscoring how even a single ...

Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate Magazine, talks with Alex Wagner about how Chief Justice John Roberts came to ...

Lawyer suspects Trump may try to convince Justice Clarence Thomas to retire to make sure the conservative supermajority continues.

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

President-elect Donald Trump may soon further cement a Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority, shaping the federal ...

The two eldest justices — Clarence Thomas, 76, and Samuel Alito, 74 — could consider stepping down knowing that Trump, a ...

There's no indication of an impending court vacancy. But with Trump's win, Republicans will be in the driver's seat in making ...

Every presidential election is about control of the Supreme Court, even if many Americans don’t consciously realize it. By re-electing former President Donald Trump on Tuesday and turning over the ...

This election could reshape the Supreme Court — or not, depending on retirements, deaths or other unforeseen events. The only ...

The ruling does well to point out that the role of the court is not to lay down economic policy, but to facilitate the ...