"I chose a serious man and exemplary judge, Merrick Garland," President Obama said from the Rose Garden on March 16. Find the NLJ's continuing coverage here. “I chose a serious man and exemplary judge ...

In theory, that decision holds weight. The appointment of a Supreme Court justice has an effect for decades, and their ...

This post was updated at 2:55 p.m. on March 16, 2016. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) called on Senate Republicans to hold a prompt confirmation vote on President Barack Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, ...

On Wednesday President Barack Obama named his nomination to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy: Merrick Garland. Here are five things you should know about the nominee: He sold his comic books to pay ...

President Obama nominated federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland for a seat on the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, setting up an epic political battle over the replacement of Justice Antonin ...

Democrats are making inching progress in their battle to win confirmation for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Although Republican leaders still insist they won’t give a hearing to the respected ...

The Justice Department on Thursday said it would take the fight over an abortion pill to the Supreme Court after an appeals court ruling that would restrict access to the widely-used abortion pill ...

Merrick Garland, President Obama’s pick to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court, is a moderate judge from the D.C. Circuit Court. What else do we know about him, as a justice and as a ...

Obama returned to where he once taught law to talk about Merrick Garland. — -- President Obama hopped a flight today to his old stomping grounds at the University of Chicago Law School, where he ...