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Following his victory in the 2016 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump took office as president on January 20, 2017, and faced an immediate vacancy on the Supreme Court due to the February 2016 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. During the 2016 campaign, Trump had released two lists of potential nominees to the Supreme Court.
In terms of Article I courts, Trump made 26 appointments: 10 for the United States Court of Federal Claims, seven for the United States Tax Court, six for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, two for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and one for the United States Court of Military Commission Review ...
On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
Trump appointed a third of the current Supreme Court in just one term. "If I'm Clarence Thomas, I'm thinking now is a good time to retire," one expert told Business Insider.
The court is likely to weigh in on two important legal questions in the next few months: Whether Trump can be deemed ineligible to run for office over his role leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on ...
President-elect Donald Trump, who moved the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically rightward in his first term, may get a chance to rejuvenate its 6-3 conservative majority by replacing some or all of ...
At the same time, Trump’s team has been buoyed by recent decisions from the Supreme Court to prevent Colorado from barring the former president from its 2024 primary ballot for his role in the ...
Trump defeated Haley yesterday in the North Dakota ... The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states cannot kick Trump off the ballot over his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the ...