Ginsburg remembered, heralded at Augusta vigil

Speakers included state Sen. Shenna Bellows D-Manchester, executive director of the The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta; state Sen. Cathy Breen, D-Falmouth; Maeghan Maloney, district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties; and activist Betsy Sweet.

Conservative appeals court judge emerges as favorite to be Trump’s nominee

The president met Monday with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was a strong contender for the Supreme Court seat that eventually went to Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

Donald Trump attacks Susan Collins over Supreme Court nomination timeline

Speaking on Fox News on Monday morning, the president said Maine's Republican senator is "very badly hurt," by suggesting whomever wins the presidential election on Nov. 3 should decide on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of women’s rights, dies at 87

Ginsburg spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing and became something of a rock star to her admirers, particularly young women.

How Maine’s Supreme Court is a different case study than that of the nation’s

Roberts court draws partisan fire-and rising public acclaim

Critiques from the left and right are bolstering an image of independence Chief Justice John Roberts has long sought to foster for the Supreme Court.

When Supreme Court justices defy expectations

Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of a pattern of justices setting aside ideology to address historic injustices.

Maine Supreme Court questions Melville Fuller statue outside Kennebec courthouse

The monument honors the Augusta-born former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was part of the majority in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation with the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine.

Despite Supreme Court ruling, Trump administration rejects new DACA applications

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program grants protection from deportation to so-called Dreamers brought to the United States as children.

Trump’s justices give him a boost but high court’s balance holds

Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh pulled the court to the right, in a move only partly offset by Chief Justice John Roberts' tack to the left.