Leading the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc, Ginsburg was a legal pioneer who backed affirmative action and defended abortion rights.
The Senate leader, who blocked former president Barack Obama’s nominee for much of 2016, is pressing ahead within weeks of the Nov. 3 election.
- 9:39AMFirst lady calls Ginsburg’s death an ‘immense loss’
- 9:38AMMcEnany declines comment on timing of a Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg
- 9:00AM'A giant of constitutional law’: Legal experts mourn Ginsburg
- 8:48AM‘How many people get to say they worked for their idol?’: Women in law remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s profound impact
- 8:37AMKamala Harris on Ginsburg: ‘We fight for her legacy’
Top Republicans signaled a push to vote on a new justice nominated by Trump, while Joe Biden and other Democrats said the decision should be delayed until after Inauguration Day.
The crowds began arriving at the steps of the Court plaza minutes after the news of Ginsburg’s death hit social media. By 9:30 p.m., the crowd had swelled to at least 1,000 people.
Election 2020The former vice president is increasingly taking aim at working-class voters who swung in 2016 to President Trump, targeting his political arguments at more rural pockets in the industrial Midwest as he casts the incumbent as an out-of-touch billionaire.
Early voting for the November election kicked off Friday in four states as voters showed up in person to cast their ballots, driven by a sense of urgency about the divisive presidential election. Many voters said they were unlikely to change their minds before Election Day and were eager for their votes to count.
The announcement marks a sharp reversal from the president’s past approach toward disaster aid for the U.S. territory, assistance that Trump and his administration had held up even as the island struggled to recover from hurricane Maria, which ravaged it in September 2017.
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It’s the first such government-backed commission created to confront a jurisdiction’s brutal history of lynchings and increase the public’s understanding of the practice.
Police departments have reported a spate of retirements and say recruitment is increasingly difficult. Officers were further shaken by the Sept. 12 ambush shooting of two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies as they sat in a police car.
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Crowds gather at Supreme Court to mourn Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgPeople gathered in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 18 to hold a vigil for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the steps of the Supreme Court.
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