The race for the White House heated up Sunday with both sides galvanized by the battle to nominate a new Supreme Court justice and Donald Trump vowing to soon name his choice. The president said Saturday that he expected to announce his nominee in the coming week and that it "will be a woman - a very talented, very brilliant woman". He said he had
Reading Time: 3 minutes President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will nominate a woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, a move that would tip the court further to the right following the death of liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst The death of the most prominent liberal judge on the US Supreme Court – Ruth Bader Ginsburg – weeks before the US Presidential election has quickly led to political controversy as US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party eye an opportunity to tilt the ideological balance of the nine-member court further in their favour
US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Republican lawmakers to back his upcoming nomination for the Supreme Court "without delay" as the issue roiled the election campaign. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal stalwart, died Friday, opening a crucial vacancy on the court and setting off a fierce political battle before the November 3 vote. Trump
Renowned tenor Joseph Calleja has paid tribute to the late US Supreme Court Justice, and personal friend, Ruth Bade Ginsburg who passed away aged 87. “What horrible news to wake up to this morning,” he said in an Instagram eulogy. “More competent people will write a far better eulogy than me, but what an extraordinary woman she was. She was eons ahead
Reading Time: 2 minutes On a cool night in a heated political year in Washington, several hundred people clutching candles, flowers and signs quietly gathered on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to mark the death Friday of liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A little before midnight, a woman sang the mourners’ Kaddish, a traditional Jewish
Reading Time: < 1 minute Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993, died on Friday at age 87, the court said, giving President Donald Trump a chance to expand its conservative majority with a third appointment at a time of deep divisions in America with a presidential election looming. Ginsburg, a champion
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has died aged 87 of pancreatic cancer, was the second woman to sit on the supreme court of the United States. She served more than 27 years on the bench. Chief Justice, John Roberts called her, “a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks on the Main Stage of the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. The supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, has died of pancreatic cancer in Washington, the US court said on Friday. Ginsburg who served more than 27 years on the bench, was the second
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Her death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle over whether