NPR's Michel Martin talks with law professor Joan Williams of the University of California-Hastings College of Law about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an icon for working mothers.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with David Kaplan, former legal affairs editor for Newsweek and author of The Most Dangerous Branch, about the political fight to fill Justice Ginsburg's vacant seat.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with John Malcolm of the conservative Heritage Foundation about the process of filling the Supreme Court vacancy after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death Friday night, mourners have gathered at the Supreme Court to honor her life and legacy. They also await a political fallout.
Before he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, the South Carolina senator said a Supreme Court vacancy shouldn't be filled during an election year. His position has changed.
The president has said that his Supreme Court nominees will come from among a list of names that he first released as a candidate and has since updated.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is vowing a vote for a potential Trump nominee will take place on the Senate floor despite McConnell not even holding a hearing for Obama's 2016 nominee.
The Democratic presidential nominee said Friday he thought voters should have a say in the makeup of the high court through their choice for president — the position taken by the GOP in 2016.
The process is shrouded in secrecy, but the president's flair for the dramatic has introduced a sense of showmanship to the highly choreographed roll out.
NPR's Nina Totenberg first encountered law professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1971. They became close friends after Ginsburg moved to Washington to serve on the federal appeals court.
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.
