Carrie Severino

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett, US president Donald Trump’s nominee for the supreme court, in Washington on October 1st. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/New York Times
Rooted in faith: Amy Coney Barrett’s path to the steps of the US supreme court
  • US
  • October 12, 2020, 18:10

On a winter afternoon in 2018, Judge Amy Coney Barrett rose to speak in Notre Dame Law School’s wood-panelled courtroom and thanked the people gathere(...)

US supreme court justice Neil Gorsuch: Liberal groups engaged in a fierce effort to keep him off the supreme court. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times
How Donald Trump’s supreme court pick became an unlikely gay rights ally
  • US
  • June 16, 2020, 11:48

Justice Neil Gorsuch is a profoundly conservative jurist and one of two appointments US president Donald Trump has made to the supreme court that Repu(...)

US president Donald Trump with supreme court judges Neil Gorsuch and Anthony Kennedy at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington last year. File photograph: Al Drago/The New York Times
Trump is reshaping US courts from the bottom up
  • US
  • July 1, 2018, 17:01

Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the supreme court has given US president Donald Trump an opportunity to shift America’s highest court to the right. (...)

US president Donald Trump (right) shakes hands with Neil Gorsuch after announcing the federal judge as his nominee for the Supreme Court. Photograph: EPA
Trump picks conservative Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

US president Donald Trump fulfilled another of his signature election promises by nominating judge Neil Gorsuch, a reliable conservative on a federal(...)