Members of Congress, the Supreme Court and other dignitaries will gather at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday for a lying-in-state ceremony for former President Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter, who served a single full presidential term without the chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, nonetheless left behind an incomparable judicial legacy. He was the first president ...

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson attends the state funeral of former President ...

One of Carter's little-known reforms as president was to name more women to judicial nominating committees, and they gave him more female candidates ...

Supreme Court impact Speaking to NBC News’s Brian ... "Women weren’t on the bench in numbers, on the federal bench, until Jimmy Carter became president," Ginsburg said in a 2015 speech at ...

Former President Jimmy Carter was remembered Thursday with ... We got Stephen Breyer confirmed by the Senate, on his way to the Supreme Court. We got the Superfund bill for chemical waste passed.