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President Joe Biden speaks after Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden hails Breyer, retiring liberal justice, as ‘model public servant’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., speaks to the media after senate democrats luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Biden is meeting privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party's long-stalled voting and elections legislation. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Manchin says his vote for liberal nominee to Supreme Court is possible

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Barriers to separate activists are set up outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021, ahead of arguments on abortion at the court in Washington. President Biden was thrown a lifeline this week with a chance to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, giving him a chance to make up for a string of unfulfilled promises on the racial justice front. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden ready for rare racial justice win with Supreme Court pick

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, left, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden to name a Black woman for Supreme Court by end of February

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to a reporter at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) **FILE**

McConnell urges Biden to ignore radical left in picking new justice

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing to review the FY 2016 budget request of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23, 2015. Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer set to retire

By Haris Alic and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this April 28, 2021, file photo, Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate is expected to narrowly confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson for the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She is widely expected to land on President Joe Biden's short list should a Supreme Court vacancy arise. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Biden eyes long list of Black female candidates to fill Supreme Court vacancy

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Then California State Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks to California Democrats at the California Democrats State Convention in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday, May 16, 2015. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer's retirement could pave the way for President Biden to put Vice President Kamala Harris on the nation's highest court. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Is VP Harris on Biden’s short list for the Supreme Court?

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Psaki: Biden stands by pledge to nominate first Black woman to Supreme Court

By Jeff Mordock and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Supreme Court to hear challenge to race in college admissions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

People march alongside the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before a rally against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Judges say Biden vaccine mandates lack congressionally approved authority

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin visits Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and speaks with reporters after signing an executive order regarding healthcare workers Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, in Roanoke, Va. (Scott P. Yates/The Roanoke Times via AP)

Virginia governor seeks dismissal of suit over school masks

By Denise Lavoie - Associated Press

The Supreme Court is shown, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request from abortion clinics to speed up action on a case in lower courts challenging Texas's new law restricting abortions after about 6 weeks of pregnancy, and allowing private citizens to enforce the law by lawsuit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Supreme Court denies bid to force faster ruling on Texas abortion law

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, left, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, gather with other justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for an official group portrait, June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Both justices deny an earlier media report that they were at odds over the wearing of masks in court during the recent surge in coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Supreme Court rebuts claims that maskless Gorsuch chased Sotomayor from the bench

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Anti-death penalty group to rally in Washington, press Biden to end federal executions

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy poses on the field at Bremerton Memorial Stadium in Bremerton, Wash. (Larry Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP, File)

Supreme Court to hear case of high school football coach who was sacked for praying on field

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

This artist sketch depicts lawyer Scott Keller standing to argue on behalf of more than two dozen business groups seeking an immediate order from the Supreme Court to halt a Biden administration order to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation's large employers during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, is seated at right. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Supreme Court blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate on big businesses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during a panel discussion celebrating Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to be a Supreme Court Justice at the Library of Congress in Washington. Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court's liberal minority, Sotomayor on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, encouraged citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, like a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Sotomayor boosts Biden’s ‘vax’ campaign

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

First responders, health care workers and law enforcement personnel line up outside of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, to receive their first dose of the Moderna vaccine to combat the coronavirus. Gillette Stadium opened last week as the first mass vaccination site in Massachusetts. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP) ** FILE **

COVID-19 stats finally take turn to truth

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Meadows pushes for speedy Supreme Court decision on Trump’s executive privilege suit

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times