But on Monday, NPR revealed that the initiative had an enthusiastic cheerleader at an even earlier stage in its development: ...

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed at 10 AM today as punishment for a murder he did not commit. At 9:59, Oklahoma ...

Interesting to which issues prompt judges to get worked up about other judges deciding cases in line with their personal ideological agendas.

Over the last seven weeks, Senate Republicans have picked up the pace in confirming judges whose unifying characteristic is their desperation to demonstrate their loyalty to President Donald Trump ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of someone you’d probably forgotten about until right now: Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who became a national news story in 2015 ...

Generally, a common-law principle known as sovereign immunity prevents the federal government from being sued, unless the government chooses to waive that privilege. In 1946, Congress laid out a few ...

Late last month, Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred a long-running suit seeking to roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone to a different federal district ...

On Monday, a divided federal appeals court lifted an order which had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. Trump has sought to use the ...

The technical questions in Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court will decide sometime next year, sound mostly like gibberish to people who are not already intimately familiar with several ...

On Wednesday, November 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a pair of cases about President Donald Trump’s unilateral imposition of sweeping tariffs on dozens of “countries” he claims are a ...