Supreme Court justices call for civility: ‘Let’s stop this nonsense’

President Trump's call for unity and bipartisanship during his State of the Union on Tuesday wasn't the only appeal for a break from the hyper-partisan atmosphere that has engulfed Washington, D.C. Along with the president, justices on the Supreme Court on at least two separate and unrelated occasions in as many weeks spoke to the need for civility. Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, during a speech at Stockton University in New Jersey last week, and again by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who sits on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum from Gorsuch, in two different events.

South Carolina train crash leaves 2 dead, nearly 90 hurt

The father of three of Larry Nassar's victims has apologized to a judge after he tried to attack the former sports doctor who has admitted to sexually assaulting girls under the guise of medical treatment. The father of three of Larry Nassar's victims has apologized to a judge after he tried to attack the former sports doctor who has admitted to sexually assaulting girls under the guise of medical treatment.

US is an outlier on death penalty attitudes in North America, ACLU attorney says

Cassandra Stubbs, director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, speaks during the session, "A North American Perspective on the Death Penalty: The American, Mexican and Canadian Experiences," on Friday during the ABA Midyear Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. . When it comes to imposing the death penalty, the United States has long outpaced North American neighbors Canada and Mexico, according to the director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project.

Pennsylvania Republicans ask Supreme Court to weigh in on gerrymandering decision

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts , Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan listen to President Trump's State of the Union address. CREDIT: Win McNamee/Getty Images Republicans are taking the "unprecedented" step of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling leading to new congressional maps.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she will serve as long as she has ‘steam’

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a Jewish audience that she would serve on the Supreme Court as long as she felt up to it. Ginsburg, appearing Thursday at a Forward event at Adas Israel synagogue in Washington DC, appeared to confirm recent reports that she plans on serving through Donald Trump's presidency.

Dallas man to die for killing daughters while mom listened

A former Dallas accountant condemned for fatally shooting his two young daughters while their mother listened helplessly on the phone is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life. John David Battaglia is set for execution Thursday evening for the May 2001 killings of his 9-year-old daughter, Faith, and her 6-year-old sister, Liberty.

After legal setbacks, Trump administration races to Supreme Court

When President Donald Trump's administration took its fight to end a controversial immigration program directly to the U.S. Supreme Court last month, skipping over a California federal appeals court in the process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said it was a "rare step" to ensure a quick and fair resolution. But the fast trip to the nation's highest judicial body was not the first time the administration took the unusual route of circumventing liberal-leaning lower courts and heading straight to the conservative-majority Supreme Court for relief from legal setbacks.

Ginsburg voices judiciary partisan fears, skips Trump speech

One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday. Ginsburg skipped President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, instead speaking at Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island.

Texas inmate asking federal courts to keep him alive

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas Hall in Dallas. This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas Hall in Dallas.

All hail Mitch McConnell, the stone-cold legislative assassin who keeps Trump afloat

In March of 2014, America first became aware of a practice soon come to be known as "McConnelling" - candidates posting hokey stock videos of themselves online that Super PACs could then pilfer and use in their own ads. At the time, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky uploaded an awkward reel of himself accomplishing several mundane tasks, including giving speeches, hanging out with his wife and flashing a million-dollar smile while staring deeply into voters' souls.

Dallas man set to die for 2nd murder while on parole for 1st

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas Hall in Dallas. less This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas ... more HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Carol Lynn Thomas Hall knew William Rayford had spent time in prison for killing his estranged wife but defended her own relationship with him, telling relatives she believed it was her Christian duty to give the parolee a second chance.

Emergency services crews often unprepared for diabetic crises

Controversial "heat-not-burn" tobacco devices might only get limited marketing in the United States, based on recommendations issued Thursday by an influential government panel. Controversial "heat-not-burn" tobacco devices might only get limited marketing in the United States, based on recommendations issued Thursday by an influential government panel.