For the second year, half of Supreme Court cases involve the federal government as respondents or petitioners, a novel trend ...

Court order exposes, reverses 20 year old opinion that exempted part-time judges from normal prohibitions on making campaign ...

State legislators argue the opposite in the resolution, claiming the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling upholding same-sex marriage was made “in complete contravention of their own state ...

Through the sometimes blinding storm of executive orders and memorandums in the opening days of President Trump’s new ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department ...

Former senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for operating what prosecutors called one of the most brazen ...

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Federal prosecutors said earlier this month that they would seek to send the former senator to prison for the next 15 years.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

The Federal Reserve kicked off its second Trump era right where it left off: Doing exactly what it wanted to do, ignoring President Donald Trump’s demands that it lower rates.

Menendez was found guilty in a corruption case involving tens of thousands in cash and gold and charges of conspiring to work ...