Outgoing president says will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20th

How Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst, lost his sweetest gig

Justices' decision abruptly ends what Trump had earlier touted as best hope for overturning election

US will be ‘back in the game’, president-elect tells world leaders in round of calls

Election of California senator will send compelling message about what is possible for women and people of colour

With Trump threatening legal action, supreme court could end up playing role in deciding outcome of election

The 45th US president: 2017-2020 timeline

Postal voting and drop boxes targeted as electoral process becomes a partisan issue

America Letter: Threats from Trump only add to country’s struggle to count votes

US president has now nominated three conservative-leaning justices to the nine-member court

Joe Biden leads the election polls nationally, but in Florida the race is razor-tight

America Letter: Reshaping judiciary one of few promises kept by incumbent president

President tells crowd he is not a Washington politician as election day looms

Donald Trump’s nominee personifies a rising Christian conservative legal movement

Confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to begin in US Senate this afternoon

Judiciary committee will hold four days of hearings set to involve ethical clash

US vice-presidential debate: On coronavirus record, Pence tries to defend the indefensible

Trump’s biggest political achievement is his alliance with Catholic America

Process to begin on October 12th and full vote in House to take place a week before election

Judge will replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg if approved by Republican-led senate

Barrett’s appointment would create 6-3 conservative majority in the supreme court

America Letter: Virus presents problem for candidate whose greatest strength is as a retail politician who can connect with people

Democrats had hoped Mitt Romney and others would stymie the US president’s attempts to appoint a successor to the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg

In wake of McConnell speech, appointment of supreme court justice just matter of timing

The US president to select late Ginsburg’s replacement amid controversy on action ahead of election

The Trump campaign has a battle on its hands as its confronts a Biden-Harris ticket

Alpha bully boy and US president sees his demise in Biden’s ‘nasty’ running mate

‘Every American should be wearing a mask when outside for the next three months’

Joe Biden’s running mate known for tough questioning of Trump administration officials

The US president calls Joe Biden’s running mate ‘nasty’ – a word he often applied to his opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016

Judges rule against Trump-backed law requiring doctors to have ‘admitting privileges’

‘Believe women’ is a trite, reductive slogan that is equally offensive to everyone

America Letter: Appointment of judge with no experience shows importance of issue in election

US Democrats always set standards that come back and bite them

America Letter: Trump campaign to ramp up digital ad attack strategy on Democrat

Former director of key health agency says refusal to embrace hydroxychloroquine led to departure

State a must-win for Bernie Sanders as a resurgent Joe Biden closes in

I was once besotted with what went on in Washington DC. Now I find myself out of the loop

US president welcomes film producer’s conviction for sex crimes as ‘a great victory’ for women

Iowa caucuses: Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg takes lead ahead of Bernie Sanders