A federal judge in Seattle said that the way President Donald Trump speaks fuels threats against other federal judges. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik, appointed by former President Bill Clinton ...

Scott MacFarlane is CBS News' Justice correspondent. He has covered Washington for two decades, earning 20 Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards. His reporting has resulted directly in the passage of ...

A Northern California federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from its mass firing of probationary federal employees, a group that represents some of the newest hires.

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco has found that the mass firings of probationary government employees were likely unlawful, granting temporary relief to a coalition of labor ...