Antonin scalia

To understand the late justice requires an understanding of his parents, his upbringing and his family's Catholicism.

Thomas may play a more powerful role on the court that now boasts a solid 6-3 conservative majority.

There are now foxes guarding the marble palace henhouse.

Sometimes the greatest compliment a devotee can pay a maestro is applying that maestro's teachings to correct his biggest mistake.

"Mostly, I'm looking for somebody that can interpret the Constitution as written," the president said.

It's obvious that Judge Barrett needs no special preferences. On character, temperament and intellect she is the top of the top—of any group.

Christopher Scalia said that his father, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, put an emphasis on his friendship with his colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg, even though the two differed on so many viewpoints.

Scalia, when not firing off some of the most interesting legal opinions in Supreme Court history, loved to travel the country teaching students—law school, college and high school students alike—about our nation's Founding document.

AR-15s and large-capacity magazines are beyond the scope of the Second Amendment and may be banned, the court ruled.

"THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED!" Trump tweeted, just a few weeks after he suggested seizing weapons without due process.

Trump drew two names from the short list of candidates that he released during his presidential campaign.

That disciplined network of operatives delivered for Trump his first major accomplishment as U.S. president: the confirmation of conservative Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court justice.

Red-state Democrats must join their Republican colleagues to confirm Gorsuch, the author writes.

If Democrats filibuster, Republicans—at Trump's urging—have threatened to lower the number of votes needed to confirm Gorsuch.

There are indications that Gorsuch supports the NRA's absolutist views on gun rights that even Justice Antonin Scalia rejected.

A Senate bill and newly emboldened Congress wants to make D.C. loosen its gun laws.

Gorsuch may be more conservative than Scalia. We won't know until he starts voting.

Trump's Supreme Court nominee is a flagship conservative and likely to be confirmed.

The president will announce his justice nominee Tuesday at 8 p.m.

The Colorado-based judge is known for his consistent conservatism, much like the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

The president is scheduled to discuss the Supreme Court with Senate leaders on Tuesday afternoon.

Sykes wrote an opinion that ruled for employers in the fight over Obamacare's contraceptive mandate.

Pryor is well known for the issue over a Ten Commandments monument in Alabama.

Originalism is a device for judges to use to mask personal judgments about what is best.

Trump ran a "law-and-order" campaign, but it so far is unclear whether this will translate to action in the White House.

There's little chance she would be able to live up to her campaign promises on the partisan issue.

A group of Republican senators is pushing to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court if Trump loses.

The big questions about how Americans buy and sell guns—including the controversial AR-15 rifle—are likely to be settled in the courts rather than in the still-paralyzed Congress.

The court splits over the president's plan to spare millions of immigrants in the country illegally from deportation and give them work permits.

Conservatives give Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees the thumbs-up but say they're not won over yet.