California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown did not set out to become the first black female nominated to the United ...

Sandra Day O'Connor was the last justice who held elective office, as a state senator in Arizona. In today's court, every ...

On VAWA’s 30th anniversary, it’s worth remembering how the justices struck down a provision in 2000 that let victims of ...

Stewart elected to the Alabama State Supreme Court in 2018. She was previously appointed by then-Gov. Bob Riley to the 13th ...

The state of North Dakota is asking a judge to pause his ruling from last week that struck down North Dakota's abortion ban ...

The day she demitted office as the chief justice of the Telangana High Court, she was promoted to the Supreme Court in 2021.

Iowa once had a nonpartisan judicial merit system for selecting judicial nominees at all levels. But in 2019, state Republicans politicized the selection process for appellate judges and Supreme Court ...

Justice Hima Kohli (retired), who has always been vocal about women's rights and is considered a tough judge, recently ...

James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court refused to hear Christa Pike's challenge to her death sentence, but another case won her more ...

That pool must expand. Till that happens, you can’t have more women coming into judiciary. The point is when it comes to high courts and the Supreme Court, the pool shrinks. It will take time ...

President Joe Biden commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act ... the Supreme Court’s role in curbing it. That happened in 2000, when the justices split 5-4 in the ...