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UPDATED with latest: The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue its Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT at the Hart Senate Office Building at the U.S. Capitol. It is the last of four scheduled days of hearings by the Republican-led Senate panel to confirm…

Kate McKinnon’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a fixture on Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update. Tonight, during SNL‘s first show since Ginsburg’s death, the show paid tribute the the iconic Supreme Court justice with one (possible) final cameo of McKinnon as Ginsburg. At the end of Weekend Update during the season premiere…

Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels “doubts” that the longrunning sketch show has seen the last of Kate McKinnon’s popular Ruth Bader Ginsburg character. In a New York Times interview today, Michaels was asked whether the death of the beloved Supreme Court Justice will mean the end of McKinnon’s recurring…

The president and the first lady visited the casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Tuesday, and all did not go as planned. They were booed and then met by chants of “Vote Him Out.” It set off conflicting choruses of pro and con responses. White House Press Secretary Kaley McEnany called the boos “appalling.” Nancy…

Focus Features and Magnolia Pictures said Tuesday that they will rerelease their respective Ruth Bader Ginsburg features On the Basis of Sex and the documentary RBG, in tribute to the late Supreme Court justice. Both pics will play in 1,000 theaters this Friday, and also be available on-demand, with net proceeds from…

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said on Tuesday that he will support a vote this year on a Supreme Court vacancy, making it all the more likely that President Donald Trump will be able to secure a vote for his nominee. “My decision regarding a Supreme Court nomination is not the result of a subjective test of ‘fairness…

“He doesn’t have a lot of respect for women. We might as well be handmaids.” That was the feeling among of a group of Orange County residents who, as they gathered to mourn the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also found themselves in shock and fearful of how Donald Trump might fill her seat. In that…

Donald Trump, offering no evidence, said that he thinks that Democrats wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish that the next president choose her successor. Appearing again on Fox & Friends on Monday, co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked Trump about the statement, characterizing it as a dying wish that she “allegedly&#8221…

"These are the strangest of days," Catherine O'Hara said Sunday night when the Schitt's Creek star grabbed the Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. That's putting it politely, as Canadians so often do. The SCTV alum was standing in a masked and socially distanced Toronto viewing party with her castmates…

Following her supporting actress Emmy win for the FX limited series Mrs. America, Uzo Aduba took the opportunity to pay tribute to the late, great Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calling the Supreme Court justice’s recent passing “absolutely devastating.” Speaking in the Emmys virtual press room Sunday night following her third…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s bench chair and the bench directly in front of it were draped in black wool crepe, a tradition that dates back almost 150 years. But outside the Supreme Court, the grounds have been turned into dozens of makeshift memorials for the justice. “Dear RBG. You gave many women the confidence…

Maya Rudolph has gone from zero to two Emmys in just three days. On Saturday night she snagged her second trophy of the week-long Creative Arts Emmys virtual ceremony—this time for her turn as Kamala Harris in Saturday Night Live, hosted by Eddie Murphy. And just this past Thursday, Rudolph took home her very first Emm…