Todd Ruger

March 1, 2021 at 12:05 pm

Voting rights take center stage on Capitol Hill and at Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — To get a sense of the partisan and unsettled future of election laws in the United States, look no further than the debates...

December 3, 2020 at 6:18 pm

Trump allies file emergency petition at Supreme Court over 2020 election

Election experts have called the lawsuit, which seeks to throw out all Pennsylvania mail-in ballots in the 2020 election, ridiculous. The dispute could not by...

October 25, 2020 at 10:51 am

Senate cuts off debate on Barrett nomination, moves to final vote on Monday

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Senate dispensed with a key procedural hurdle Sunday on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, as Republicans race...

Nation & World

October 5, 2020 at 10:49 am

Supreme Court goes to work in the midst of COVID-19 chaos on first day of new term

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. started the Supreme Court’s new term Monday with a brief tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose...

April 27, 2020 at 10:45 am

Justices ask if House-Trump subpoena showdown is appropriate for courts

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court made a request Monday that hinted the justices might want to back out of the legal showdown over President Donald...

Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) talks with reporters before the start of the day’s Senate impeachment trial at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times) XNYT90 XNYT90

January 30, 2020 at 5:08 am

View from the gallery: Whispers, snacks, a sleeping senator

On the eighth day in the chamber for the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history, the 100 senators strategized and huddled about how to...

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, arrives as defense arguments by the Republicans resume in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) DCSA114 DCSA114

January 28, 2020 at 4:21 pm

Romney’s chocolate milk, Cipollone’s joke and other scenes from the impeachment trial

It was the seventh day in the chamber for the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history, and the 100 senators had a shorter day...

Nation & World

January 27, 2020 at 7:27 pm