The U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump administration free rein to gut the Department of Education on Monday — voting 6-3 to ...

Democrat-led states say Trump’s sweeping staff cuts at the Department of Education are already disrupting school funding ...

May 26, 2009— -- As President Obama's pick to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor seems, in many ways, tailor-made for President Obama as a Supreme ...

Supreme Court justices Jackson and Sotomayor disagree over Trump's federal workforce reduction plan in an 8-1 ruling that ...

Obama very likely was interested in Sotomayor's personal story, since he didn't know her, but in view of his 12 years teaching constitutional law, ...

In Sotomayor, Obama has chosen a nominee who will greatly please two powerful constituencies in his own party — women and Hispanics — that had openly lobbied for one of their own to replace ...

President Barack Obama introduced his first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court with much praise. "It's a measure of her qualities and her qualifications that Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the U ...

Throughout the weeks leading up to the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, one often heard it said that President Obama was thinking in threes. He wasn’t just seating this one ...

President Obama on Tuesday announced he will nominate U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. She would be the first Hispanic on the high court if confirmed.

President Barack Obama called Judge Sonia Sotomayor at 9 p.m. on Memorial Day to say she was his pick for the Supreme Court. Obama showed he was willing to pick a fight with his choice ...

As a senator, Obama voted against Justices Roberts and Alito on the basis of their ideology, Republicans say. Why can't we do the same? they ask.

Obama had said he was looking for a nominee who demonstrates empathy and "intellectual fire power," as well as possesses the "common touch." The president on Tuesday described Sotomayor, a judge ...