U.S. Supreme Court

The "independent state legislature" theory could change the future of all elections in Wisconsin and around the nation.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is assigned to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was the one who received the emergency application brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group.

The vote on the historic nomination was 53 to 47, with three Republicans voting with Democrats. When sworn in this summer, Jackson will be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

The first Black woman judge on Wisconsin’s courts of appeals, Maxine White, talks about the significance of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Biden announced Judge Jackson, 51, will be his nominee to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman to serve on the high court.

Last week, Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement after serving 28 years in the U.S. Supreme Court. Marquette University's Paul Nolette discusses Breyer's tenure and what's next.

At a White House event with Breyer, President Biden said it was his intention is to name a nominee to replace him by the end of February.

Behind the scenes, Breyer, 83, pushed and prodded his fellow justices for consensus. His decision gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court.

The right to abortion in the U.S. has faced a lot of recent challenges. But for the first time in decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a case that will directly challenge the ruling in its landmark case on abortion: Roe V. Wade. At the same time, the court has taken up another case on abortion rights, which could directly challenge how we exercise any constitutional right in the U.S.

Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday it’s unlikely he would sign into law any maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature that are based on the current ones, boundary lines that solidified GOP majorities over the past decade.