Merrick Garland is President Obama's nominee for the third vacancy on the US Supreme Court during his term, but he will face a tough slog to get confirmed by the US Senate.
Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving Supreme Court justice and one of its most conservative members, was found dead at a Texas resort of apparent natural causes on Saturday. He was 79.
Erik Jensen was 17 when he witnessed a friend kill his mom. That led to a life sentence in prison — but now the US Supreme Court may have given Jensen a chance at eventual release.
"This is really setting a trend towards an international movement where 20, 30 years ago the notion that same-sex couples could marry seemed crazy in a lot of places,'' says BuzzFeed's J. Lester Feder.