Former Justice David Souter’s perceived turn to the “left” changed the future of Supreme Court nominations, with ...

The late justice was picked to be a reliable conservative vote on the court. But he drifted left—and the right has never ...

More than any decision he authored, the justice’s legacy was how he surprised legal conservatives, galvanizing a movement to ...

Souter was never supposed to be a hard-right ideologue. That distinction would go to Bush’s next appointment, Clarence Thomas ...

Clarence Thomas was chosen for the Supreme Court because he was Black, while Amy Coney Barrett was chosen due to her gender, ...

Trump made his first judicial nomination of his 2nd term, naming TN litigator and ex-Princeton Basketball co-captain Whitney ...

Progressive groups warned that Whitney Hermandorfer is proof that Trump wants judicial nominees willing to put personal ...

This is the first judicial nomination of Trump's second ... She also clerked for both Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court, as well as for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh ...

His nomination came at a pivotal time in ... Modern legal conservatism, as I noted in a profile of Justice Amy Coney Barrett earlier this year, is replete with constant ideological checks and ...