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The president met Thursday at the White House with Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but did not review specific women under consideration for the post.
The president has said he will choose a Black woman, prompting speculation about his picks — but there's one more contender who wants a chance.
President Biden said he's done a "deep dive" on about four potential candidates.
President Biden is expected to announce his Supreme Court nomination this month, and some left-leaning Democrats are wary of South Carolina judge Michelle Childs who has made the president's short list. Washington Post reporter David Weigel joined CBS News to discuss why there's been some pushback.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of a controversial Republican-drawn congressional map in Alabama, blocking the creation of a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. CBS News legal contributor and Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson explains the impact of the ruling.
A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.
"She's considered to be a fair-minded, highly gifted jurist. She is one of the most decent people I've ever met," the Republican senator said.
President Biden says he will nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court to fill Justice Stephen Breyer's seat after he retires later this year. Several prominent U.S. judges are reportedly already on the White House's short list. Retired U.S. judge for the Southern District of Texas Vanessa Gilmore joined CBS News to discuss.
President Biden has vowed to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court as Justice Stephen Breyer prepares to retire. Harvard Law professor Alan Jenkins joins CBS News to discuss who the potential nominees are and what the appointment will mean for the highest court in the country.
"It's long overdue, in my view," the president said, announcing the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.
Liberal or conservative, his fellow justices appear to have developed a warm friendship with Breyer over the years.
President Biden has vowed to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court if a seat were to open up.
President Biden says he expects to select a nominee to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in February. CBS News' Natalie Brand reports on Breyer's decision to step down, and senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe looks ahead to the confirmation process.
President Biden formally announced Justice Stephen Breyer's plans to retire at the White House on Wednesday. Kevin Russell, a partner at Goldstein and Russell, P.C, and former clerk for Justice Breyer, tels CBS News what it was like working for him and the legacy he'll leave on the high court.
President Biden is weighing his options for a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who plans to retire this year. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has more on the impact of Breyer's retirement, and CBS News senior White House correspondent breaks down the opportunity it presents for the Biden administration.
The 83-year-old associate justice's decision to step aside will give President Biden the opportunity to name his replacement.
It has been 49 years since the Supreme Court handed down the historic Roe v. Wade decision. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has more on the anniversary. Then, Columbia Law School professor Carol Sanger joins CBSN to discuss the future of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court has refused to expedite the latest challenge to the new restrictive abortion law in Texas, leaving it in place for now. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson and CBS News political reporter Melissa Quinn spoke with CBSN's Tanya Rivero about what the Supreme Court's decision could mean for the future of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that will soon see its 49th anniversary.
The move means the Texas ban is likely to remain in effect for the foreseeable future.
"While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends," Sotomayor and Gorsuch said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.
The order from the Supreme Court clears the way for the National Archives to turn over the records to House investigators.
"Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly."
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the Biden administration to enforce a nationwide COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers. But the court rejected a vaccine-or-test mandate for large companies. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson and CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford join Tony Dokoupil on CBSN to explain the rulings.
The Supreme Court said it will take up legal challenges to President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine requirements for health care workers and large businesses with at least 100 workers. Politico labor reporter Eleanor Mueller joins CBSN to discuss more.
President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Erika Kirk spoke at Sunday's memorial service for Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, at State Farm Stadium in Arizona.
Gary Cohn, IBM vice chair and director of the National Economic Council in the first Trump term, said for companies in a "very difficult environment," cutting down on the cost of labor is "the one lever they can pull."
Scientists hope genetically modified mice will curb the spread of Lyme disease. They headed to Nantucket — home to a large population of the mice, ticks and deer spreading Lyme — to pitch their idea.
In an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," the French president pushed back on criticism for recognizing a Palestinian state.
More than 140 countries have already taken that step and more are expected to do so at the U.N. General Assembly this week, including France.
President Trump is renewing his call to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram, even saying "we're talking now to Afghanistan" about the matter.
Gabrielle formed on Wednesday over the central Atlantic Ocean and became a hurricane on Sunday. It's the seventh named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
One person is dead and several people were wounded during a shooting Saturday night at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic said they have confiscated cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy.