'It Only Takes 4': Durbin Hopes Some Republicans Break Ranks To Block A Trump Nominee The Illinois Democrat, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told NPR's Weekend Edition he hopes some Republicans decline to fill the Ruth Bader Ginsburg vacancy before the election. Matthew S. Schwartz
Patrick Leahy Says A Vote Now To Replace Ginsburg Would Be 'Political Hypocrisy' The Vermont Democrat said a vote before Election Day would break with the position Republicans embraced in 2016 when they refused to consider the nomination of Obama nominee Merrick Garland. Jason Slotkin
Mourners Gather At Supreme Court To Honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice, sent mourners flocking to the Supreme Court for an impromptu vigil.
In A Tribute To Justice Ginsburg, Obama Calls On Senate To Delay Naming A Successor The former president says Republicans should "apply rules with consistency, and not based on what's convenient or advantageous in the moment." Suzanne Nuyen
Trump And GOP Look To Cap Record Throughput Of Judges With 3rd High Court Pick President Trump and Republicans already have remade the federal judiciary in their own image. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg puts a rare third Supreme Court pick within their grasp. Philip Ewing
Trump Has Detailed His Supreme Court List. Will Biden Release One? Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't unveiled a list of names about who he could nominate to the Supreme Court. That issue has taken on a new urgency. Philip Ewing
Lawmakers React to Death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg The feminist icon's death left a vacancy in the court just 46 days before the Nov. 3 general election. Alana Wise
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Impact On The U.S. Legal System NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University and the author of book Conversations with RBG, about Justice Ginsburg's impact on the legal system.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87 Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her. Nina Totenberg
Watchdog To Review Non-Lethal Tactics Against Protesters, Including 'Heat Ray' Request The Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan government watchdog, will review the federal government's use of non-lethal weapons and the tactics it wielded against protesters this summer. Dina Temple-Raston