Justice Kennedy announces retirement, setting Trump up to reshape the Supreme Court for years to come

With Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, the US will join Syria and Nicaragua as the only non-signatories

Here’s where Trump’s Supreme Court pick Gorsuch likely stands on controversial issues

Where does President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, stand on the liberal to conservative spectrum, compared to the other Supreme Court justices on the bench?

Researchers Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, and Kevin Quinn conducted an analysis of Trump’s potential Supreme Court picks back in December, which we first saw in The New York Times, to answer that very question. Since judges are notoriously close-lipped about their political leanings or how they might rule on potential cases, the researchers used an equation taking into account the political affiliations of the senators from their home states and the president appointing them.

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The Republican presidential contest has devolved into an all-out brawl ahead of a the Thursday-night debate