Skip to content
RollCall logo

Staff

Todd Ruger

The Latest From Todd Ruger
President Joe Biden boards Marine One en route to Philadelphia on the South Lawn of the White House on May 29.

Biden withdrawal could prompt legal fights over ballots

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 21, 2024 at 6:23pm
Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., at a House hearing in 2019.

Federal judge approves redrawn Georgia congressional districts

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 28, 2023 at 2:47pm, Updated December 29, 2023 at 9:09am
Capitol Police seen on the East Front plaza of the Capitol in 2022.

Capitol Police arrest man who had knife and machete

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 27, 2023 at 4:51pm
John L. “Jack” Smith, special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump, after making a public statement in June.

Special counsel seeks to limit ‘political’ issues at Trump trial

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 27, 2023 at 12:35pm
The 2022 conviction of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., was overturned by a federal appeals court that ruled he should not have been tried in California on charges of lying to investigators in a probe into illegal foreign campaign contributions.

Appeals court tosses convictions of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 26, 2023 at 3:03pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has requested documents from the executive branch and local prosecutors that have raised questions about the separation of powers.

Worlds collide: Separation-of-powers fights heat up

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted March 31, 2023 at 9:09am
A police officer is seen outside the Supreme Court in October.

Supreme Court unable to identify leaker in abortion opinion probe

By Todd Ruger and Michael Macagnone
Posted January 19, 2023 at 3:31pm, Updated at 4:09pm
Jaime Sigaran of American Rivers and his sister Bethsaida attend a rally to call for protection of the Clean Water Act outside the Supreme Court as it began its new term on Oct. 3.

Supreme Court keeps on truckin’

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted October 12, 2022 at 1:18pm
Comedian and activist Jon Stewart speaks during a rally on Aug. 1 to call on the Senate to pass a bill to expand health care benefits for veterans sickened due to toxic exposure, including to burn pits, they experienced while deployed. It would also allow victims of poisoning at Camp Lejeune to sue the government for compensation, the subject of this week's Political Theater podcast.

Camp Lejeune tragedy moves closer to justice

By Todd Ruger and Mike Magner
Posted August 5, 2022 at 9:00am
A worker with the Nuisance Abatement Graffiti Team power washes messages, including one that reads “our rights,” written in chalk on 1st Street Northeast in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on May 9, 2022.

Cruel summer: The Supreme Court’s lengthy break in the spotlight

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted July 7, 2022 at 1:37pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., questions Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, on the second day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on March 22.

Panel vote likely split on Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 31, 2022 at 3:20pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in her office on March 8.

Sen. Susan Collins backs Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 30, 2022 at 10:02am
The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in December 2021.

Supreme Court raises concerns over veteran work protections

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 29, 2022 at 2:30pm
Chairman Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., center, looks on, as ranking member Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, makes an opening statement during last week's confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court.

Committee sets vote for Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 28, 2022 at 4:48pm
John Eastman, who advised President Donald Trump about a path to rejecting the electoral counts from states as part of a plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election, speaks in Colorado in April 2021.

Judge: Trump ‘more likely than not’ committed crimes related to Jan. 6 attack

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 28, 2022 at 1:50pm, Updated at 6:56pm
Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., speaks during a May 2021 news conference about legislation to expand benefits and improve care for veterans suffering from toxic exposure to burn pits and other hazards.

Supreme Court to hear battle over War Powers and servicemember lawsuits

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 28, 2022 at 7:00am
From left, Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn talk before Cruz’s questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, on Wednesday.

Supreme Court hearing gets heated, as the end is in sight

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 23, 2022 at 6:39pm, Updated at 7:45pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson outlines approach to sentencing defendants

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 23, 2022 at 12:40pm
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, references a page from the children's book "Antiracist Baby" while questioning Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing veers into hot-button topics

By Todd Ruger and Jim Saksa
Posted March 22, 2022 at 6:45pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, arrives with her husband Patrick Jackson for day two of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing the in Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

Question and answer phase begins for Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearing

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 22, 2022 at 11:11am
Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, is sworn in before delivering her opening statement at her Senate confirmation hearing Monday.

‘We have never had this moment before’: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 21, 2022 at 5:00pm
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, delivers his opening statement Monday during the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court.

It’s Jackson’s SCOTUS hearing. But GOP can’t stop talking about Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett

By Jim Saksa and Todd Ruger
Posted March 21, 2022 at 3:39pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, is greeted by ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and chairman Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., as she arrives for her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Monday.

Democrats, Republicans draw lines at opening of Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearing

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 21, 2022 at 12:06pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court, met earlier this month with senators.

Supreme Court confirmation hearing starts with historic mark

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 21, 2022 at 6:30am
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is one of the backers of legislation to increase transparency for judicial financial disclosure reports.

Federal courts streamline path for judicial financial reports

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 15, 2022 at 3:20pm
Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 1, 2021 as arguments begin about the Texas abortion law by the court.

Texas Supreme Court rules against abortion providers

By Sandhya Raman and Todd Ruger
Posted March 11, 2022 at 2:57pm
Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa., backed a previous version of a spending bill that included provisions to overhaul policing.

Policing overhaul provisions not hitching a ride on omnibus spending bill

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 10, 2022 at 1:36pm
Chairman Richard J. Durbin attends a Senate Judiciary markup last month.

Senator floats reexamination of baseball’s antitrust exemption

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 10, 2022 at 12:24pm
Dan Coats, then director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats testifies during a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats" in 2018.

Former Sen. Dan Coats dishes on Supreme Court, Ukraine, Trump

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 10, 2022 at 6:00am
Senate Democrats will hold their issues conference at Howard University, Vice President Kamala Harris' alma mater.

Amid congressional focus on HBCUs, Senate Democrats to huddle at Howard University

By Niels Lesniewski and Todd Ruger
Posted March 9, 2022 at 5:00am
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee for associate justice to the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in the Hart Senate Office Building on March 2.

Senate Judiciary leaders spar over Supreme Court confirmation hearing timeline

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 7, 2022 at 4:44pm
A CodePink member in an orange jumpsuit, similar to those worn by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, kneels in front of the Supreme Court as oral arguments over the rights of detainees in 2007.

Supreme Court blocks Gitmo detainee’s search for testimony about CIA torture

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 3, 2022 at 12:46pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, is seen inside the Mike Mansfield Room at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson takes historic first steps toward Supreme Court

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 2, 2022 at 3:44pm
Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 28, 2021.

Supreme Court nominee heads to Senate for confirmation process

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 1, 2022 at 2:31pm
Sunset light illuminates the U.S. Supreme Court building in December.

Supreme Court debates government power to regulate greenhouse gases

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 28, 2022 at 3:09pm
Ketanji Brown Jackson, a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, speaks after President Joe Biden introduced her as his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.

Seeking court that looks ‘like America,’ Biden picks Ketanji Brown Jackson

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 25, 2022 at 3:20pm
Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be President Joe Biden's nominee to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Biden Supreme Court pick Jackson brings criminal justice experience to the bench

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 25, 2022 at 9:02am
An attorney for Texas told the state’s highest court it could decide the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong when it gave abortion providers a narrow legal pathway to challenge a Texas abortion law. Above, the U.S. Supreme Court.

Texas Supreme Court hears abortion ban challenge

By Sandhya Raman and Todd Ruger
Posted February 24, 2022 at 2:04pm
An immigration activist is seen in front of the Supreme Court during a march last May.

Supreme Court hears arguments over ‘public charge’ rule

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 23, 2022 at 3:08pm
Marriage equality supporters hold up balloons that spell "LOVE" outside the Supreme Court as they wait for the court's decision on marriage equality in 2015.

Supreme Court to decide case on designer’s right to not create same-sex marriage websites

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 22, 2022 at 12:57pm
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., seen at a press conference last month, is pressing a lawsuit to hold Donald Trump personally responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Judge allows lawmaker Jan. 6 lawsuits against Trump to proceed

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 18, 2022 at 5:21pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., introduces Nina Morrison, nominee to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday.

How do you solve a problem like a Republican boycott?

By Caitlin Reilly and Todd Ruger
Posted February 17, 2022 at 5:00am, Updated at 11:57am
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, center right, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles E. Grassley, left, and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conduct a news conference Thursday after the Senate passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. Carlson received a settlement after suing Fox News founder Roger Ailes for sexual harassment in 2016.

Bombshell: Congress sends Biden bill to end forced arbitration in harassment cases

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 10, 2022 at 2:57pm
President Joe Biden recommitted to selecting a Black woman for a vacancy created by the upcoming retirement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer, announced last month at the White House.

Biden’s Supreme Court pledge opens another avenue for talk about equality

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 10, 2022 at 5:00am
A demonstrator holds a sign at a Jan. 19 rally outside the U.S. Capitol to urge the Senate to pass voting rights legislation.

Supreme Court signals few map changes before midterms

By Todd Ruger and Michael Macagnone
Posted February 8, 2022 at 1:21pm
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, left, speaks with Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Republicans stress process for Supreme Court confirmation will be one of ‘respect’

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 3, 2022 at 3:06pm
President Joe Biden hosted a White House meeting about reducing gun violence in July.

Biden heads to New York City to urge funding to combat gun violence

By Todd Ruger
Posted February 3, 2022 at 5:00am
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, talk with reporters on Jan. 20 about voting rights.

Senators look to break logjam on elections overhaul

By Todd Ruger and Chris Cioffi
Posted February 1, 2022 at 3:40pm
President Joe Biden listens Thursday at the White House as Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer holds up a pocket Constitution and speaks about his coming retirement.

Biden plans to announce pick for Supreme Court in February

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 27, 2022 at 2:22pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., here speaking to reporters last year, said a Supreme Court nominee would get a speedy confirmation process.

Democrats hold advantages in Supreme Court confirmation

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 26, 2022 at 4:39pm
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring.

Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 26, 2022 at 12:36pm
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a news conference last week.

Supreme Court won’t review House COVID-19 proxy voting

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 24, 2022 at 12:30pm, Updated at 5:18pm
Germaine T. Leftwich, 67, receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot from Dr. Tiffany Taliaferro at the Safeway on Capitol Hill in October.

Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 21, 2022 at 2:16pm
Reproductive rights activists hold cut out photos of the Supreme Court justices as oral arguments are held in December on the constitutionality of Mississippi's restrictive ban on abortion after 15 weeks.

Supreme Court won’t hear new issue in Texas abortion law fight

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 20, 2022 at 5:30pm
A lawyer for a spokesman for former President Donald Trump in part argued that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seen here Wednesday, did not follow House rules when appointing members to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Judge rejects effort to stop Jan. 6 panel from using bank records

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 20, 2022 at 12:27pm
President Donald Trump speaks at a Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the Ellipse behind the White House before supporters stormed the Capitol.

Supreme Court allows release of Trump’s Jan. 6 documents to Congress

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 19, 2022 at 7:30pm
An immigration activist attends a rally outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 17, 2021.

Reshaping society, the Supreme Court way

By Jason Dick, Todd Ruger and Evan Campbell
Posted January 19, 2022 at 5:45pm
Sen. Ted Cruz is seen in the Capitol during a series of votes last year.

Ted Cruz: Litigious hot coffee spiller or civil rights champion?

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 19, 2022 at 2:13pm
Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell shakes hands with Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in 2020.

Supreme Court to hear Ted Cruz challenge to campaign finance law

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 18, 2022 at 2:04pm
President Joe Biden speaks to reporters Thursday after attending a Senate Democratic lunch to discuss ending the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.

What’s in the new voting bill the Senate is trying to take up

By Kate Ackley and Todd Ruger
Posted January 13, 2022 at 5:26pm, Updated at 10:03pm
The Supreme Court building is seen at dusk.

Supreme Court blocks vaccine-or-mask mandate for larger employers

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 13, 2022 at 3:49pm, Updated at 4:02pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., arrives for a hearing in July.

Republicans stung by a change they made on judicial picks

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 12, 2022 at 11:08am
Rep. Mo Brooks, seen in November, argued at a remote hearing Monday to be removed as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Rep. Eric Swalwell about the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol.

Lawmaker lawsuits over Jan. 6 tested in Trump push to dismiss

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 10, 2022 at 6:45pm
Sunset light illuminates the U.S. Supreme Court building in December.

Supreme Court weighs COVID mandates as virus surges

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 7, 2022 at 3:30pm
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, here in November after a hearing on contempt of Congress charges for failing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee, is set for trial in July.

Congress faces delays in speedy push for Jan. 6 accountability

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 6, 2022 at 5:00am
Former President Donald Trump has appealed his case challenging the authority of the select Jan. 6 committee to the Supreme Court.

Trump appeals case challenging Jan. 6 committee to Supreme Court

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 23, 2021 at 5:02pm
Sunset light illuminates the U.S. Supreme Court building this month.

Veteran’s case brings War Powers to Supreme Court

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 15, 2021 at 12:46pm
Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol last month.

Judge rules House committee can get Trump’s tax returns

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 14, 2021 at 7:12pm
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announces during a news conference outside the Capitol he has filed a lawsuit against the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

DC files lawsuit against two groups for costs of Jan. 6 response

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 14, 2021 at 2:38pm
Marine One carries President Donald Trump past the Trump International Hotel after he departed the White House in January before Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president.

Appeals court questions scope of House request for Trump records

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 13, 2021 at 4:06pm
Protesters rally outside as the Supreme Court hears two challenges to Texas' new abortion law on Nov. 1, 2021. On Friday, the court issued its ruling in the case.

Supreme Court allows narrow challenge to Texas abortion law

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 10, 2021 at 11:34am, Updated at 3:12pm
Members of the House Jan. 6 select committee, including Chairperson Bennie Thompson, right, address reporters after a hearing in July. Also appearing, from left, are Reps. Elaine Luria, Adam B. Schiff, Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, Zoe Lofgren, Pete Aguilar and Adam Kinzinger.

Appeals court sides with House on access to White House records

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 9, 2021 at 5:51pm
Sens. Patrick J. Leahy, center, and Charles E. Grassley, here leading the procession of senators to the ceremony for former Sen. Bob Dole to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday, had earlier discussed the Justice Department response to information requests at a committee hearing.

Senators float tougher stance to get info from Justice Department

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 9, 2021 at 12:38pm
Mark Meadows talks with the media during a break in the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett on October 12, 2020.

Meadows sues Jan. 6 panel as contempt charges imminent

By Todd Ruger and Chris Marquette
Posted December 8, 2021 at 7:01pm
The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in Washington on Thursday.

Commission sends Biden report on Supreme Court overhauls

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 7, 2021 at 5:44pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin has pressed the Biden administration about closing the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba.

Afghanistan complicates new push to close Guantánamo Bay

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 7, 2021 at 3:49pm
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, shown in October, on Monday called on Congress to update the Voting Rights Act.

Justice Department challenges new Texas congressional map

By Michael Macagnone and Todd Ruger
Posted December 6, 2021 at 3:59pm
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, seen in the Capitol in October, offered an amendment to protect lawmaker information online.

Senators weigh online protections for lawmakers’ personal info

By Todd Ruger and Megan Mineiro
Posted December 2, 2021 at 3:48pm
Abortion rights activists hold photos of the Supreme Court justices as oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization are held Wednesday. The case considers the constitutionality of Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks.

Supreme Court sounds ready to let states curb abortion access

By Todd Ruger
Posted December 1, 2021 at 2:20pm
Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, is seen in the Capitol Visitor Center in July after a news conference to introduce members of the committee.

Appeals court weighs Trump’s push to block Jan. 6 records

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 30, 2021 at 4:35pm
Protesters rally outside as the Supreme Court hears two challenges to a Texas abortion law on Nov. 1.

Abortion case tests Supreme Court’s rightward shift after Trump

By Todd Ruger and Sandhya Raman
Posted November 29, 2021 at 12:33pm, Updated December 1, 2021 at 2:09pm
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., addresses the media after the House Jan. 6 select committee hearing in July to examine the January 2021 attack on the Capitol. Also appearing from left are, Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.

House expresses urgent need for White House records on Jan. 6

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 22, 2021 at 1:46pm, Updated at 4:29pm
Reporters question chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., as he leaves the House Democrats caucus meeting last month.

Judge questions flip on House request for Trump tax records

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 16, 2021 at 5:55pm
Supporters of then-President Donald Trump stand on a U.S. Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump warns of ‘new weapon’ from Jan. 6 panel records request

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 16, 2021 at 2:07pm
House Jan. 6 select committee Chairperson Bennie Thompson says his panel is considering “pursuing contempt or other proceedings to enforce the subpoena” against Mark Meadows.

Stephen Bannon indicted for refusing to comply with congressional subpoena

By Chris Marquette and Todd Ruger
Posted November 12, 2021 at 5:41pm, Updated at 5:48pm
Then-President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from the Ellipse at the White House on Jan. 6 as Congress prepared to certify Electoral College making Joe Biden winner of the 2020 election.

Court puts release of White House Jan. 6 records on hold

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 11, 2021 at 4:52pm
From left, Reps. Elaine Luria, D-Va., Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., address the media in July after the House Jan. 6 select committee hearing to examine the January attack on the Capitol.

Judge rejects Trump effort to block records from House’s Jan. 6 panel

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 10, 2021 at 8:26am, Updated at 8:39am
Supreme Court justices will issue a decision in the case before the end of their term in late June. A decision that requires the U.S. to include Puerto Rico residents in the SSI benefits program could cost an additional $23 billion over the next decade.

Supreme Court appears likely to defer to Congress on Puerto Rico benefits

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 9, 2021 at 1:56pm
Storm clouds hang over the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.

Supreme Court mulls if judges should review secret spy evidence

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 8, 2021 at 5:38pm
From left, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García conduct a news conference in September related to hurricane aid for Puerto Rico.

Supreme Court to weigh how Congress treats Puerto Rico

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 8, 2021 at 11:03am
Members of the House Jan. 6 select committee — including, from left, Liz Cheney, Zoe Lofgren, Adam Kinzinger and Bennie Thompson — address the media in July after a panel hearing to examine the attack on the Capitol.

Judge questions Trump push to block records from Jan. 6 panel

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 4, 2021 at 3:11pm
The Supreme Court is seen at sunrise on Sept. 29. Justices are expected to issue an opinion on the case involving a New York state gun law before the end of the court’s term next June.

Supreme Court sounds sour on New York concealed carry law

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 3, 2021 at 2:47pm
Gun safety advocates arrive holding letters spelling gun safety in front of the Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in a different Second Amendment case in 2019.

Capitol attack could loom over Supreme Court gun case

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 2, 2021 at 11:12am
Protesters rally outside as the Supreme Court hears two challenges to a Texas abortion law on Monday.

Key justices skeptical of Texas abortion law structure

By Todd Ruger
Posted November 1, 2021 at 4:18pm
Storm clouds hang over the Supreme Court building in Washington on Sept. 23, 2021.

Texas abortion law model could spread to guns, free speech, Supreme Court is told

By Todd Ruger
Posted October 28, 2021 at 5:00am
The Supreme Court is seen at sunrise last month.

Supreme Court takes on cases about Texas abortion law

By Todd Ruger
Posted October 22, 2021 at 2:29pm
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland arrives for the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing for the Justice Department in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday.

Democrats nudge attorney general on contempt of Congress decision

By Todd Ruger
Posted October 21, 2021 at 4:16pm
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairs the House Select Committee to Investigate Jan. 6 markup Tuesday to vote on recommending that Stephen Bannon be held in criminal contempt of Congress.

Bannon contempt vote threatens to erode congressional investigative power

By Todd Ruger and Chris Marquette
Posted October 21, 2021 at 11:26am
The House Jan. 6 panel, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, right, won’t find it easy getting information from former President Donald Trump and his ex-adviser, Stephen Bannon.

Trump, Bannon delays could impede Jan. 6 probe

By Chris Marquette and Todd Ruger
Posted October 19, 2021 at 7:15pm, Updated at 8:11pm
Anti-abortion protesters hold signs and chant in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 12, 2021.

Justice Department asks Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law

By Todd Ruger
Posted October 18, 2021 at 3:15pm