Updated: Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, expected to be nominated today to the U.S. Supreme Court, was selected from a short list…
If Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm is nominated and confirmed to become a Supreme Court justice, she would be the seventh member of the court who wasn’t born in the United…
A California legal publication is reporting that two more judges on the so-called U.S. Supreme Court short list—Sonia Sotomayor and Carlos Moreno—are in contact with the administration as part of…
There are two front-runners on President Barack Obama’s almost all-female short list of potential candidates to fill Justice David Souter’s soon-to-be-vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the…
Some conservative groups aren’t waiting for President Obama to announce his choice to fill the seat of retiring Justice David H. Souter. They are taking aim at three potential Supreme…
A federal judge has told a Colorado newspaper that she was approached by people in contact with the White House about her interest in a U.S. Supreme Court nomination.
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