Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would schedule a vote to confirm Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after her death Friday, giving the president an opportunity to cement a rightward tilt of the Supreme Court for a generation.

Amy Coney Barrett swiftly emerged as an early front-runner to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court among allies of President Donald Trump, who are preparing to press forward with a hotly contested nomination battle on the eve of an election.

A conservative successor to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would move the U.S. Supreme Court closer to overturning the right to abortion, threaten the Affordable Care Act and, if confirmed quickly enough, strengthen President Donald Trump’s hand in legal disputes over the November election.

Tributes flooded in after the death Friday of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old Supreme Court justice and liberal icon, after a long battle with cancer.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday, was famous for her powerful dissents, but the “Notorious RBG” didn’t start out that way.

TikTok asked a federal judge in Washington to block the Trump administration from enacting a ban on the fast-growing social-media network.

A nationwide phone outage that struck federal courts has impacted some case proceedings, according to judges and the agency that oversees operations.