Judiciary

A Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) worker is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the union dues he was forced to pay must be returned, thanks to the 2018 ...

Federal judges in Georgia and Tennessee on Monday blocked two of the country's strictest laws on abortion. In ...

The first federal execution in the United States in nearly 20 years took place on Tuesday after the ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—The Trump administration was moving ahead early Tuesday with the execution of the first federal prison ...

A coalition of states and Washington are suing the Trump administration over its rule that prevents international students ...

A federal judge ordered a new delay on federal executions, just hours before the first lethal injection was ...

The Supreme Court agreed to review a First Amendment lawsuit in which a Georgia college belatedly expanded free ...

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed an emergency motion with a federal appeals court on Saturday seeking to move forward ...

The federal appeals court for the District of Columbia has put on hold its decision to order a ...

The federal judge presiding over the case of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former adviser to President Donald Trump, ...

The Justice Department has told a federal appeals court that it supports a lower court's decision that orders ...

Attorney General William Barr said he believes that there is a "widespread phenomenon" in which African American males ...

President Donald Trump vowed to fight on after the Supreme Court rejected his claim that he enjoys immunity ...

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sued the Trump administration in a federal court on Wednesday ...

The Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exempts religious organizations from employment discrimination lawsuits ...

WASHINGTON—Chief Justice John Roberts spent a night in a hospital last month after he fell and injured his ...

The U.S. Senate held a hearing on June 23 to discuss whether changes to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities ...

A federal judge has denied an emergency request to delay the process of shutting down the Dakota Access ...

The Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling and allowed a slew of pipeline projects to move forward ...

A federal appeals court on July 6 upheld a lower court's decision to block a Trump administration rule that ...

A federal judge on July 6 ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline to be shut down and emptied while ...

The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of “faithless elector” laws that allow states to fine or remove ...

The Supreme Court on July 4 denied an emergency request from Illinois Republicans seeking to block a state measure ...

Two charges have been dropped against doomsday book author and alleged cult member Lori Vallow, but two new ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Attorney General William Barr and other ...

A union that represents hundreds of immigration judges has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department's Executive Office for ...

The Supreme Court agreed July 2 to consider the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court’s decision compelling ...