Courts have become Democrats' best chance of thwarting President Donald Trump's efforts to significantly downsize and reshape the federal government.

Courtrooms across the country are hearing challenges to President Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal ...

Hagan Scotten told Justice Department officials that he would not be party to a political prosecution. He was the latest in a ...

Maya Sen argues that federal courts are unlikely to protect democracy from threats posed by Trump and Musk, as the ...

Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...

More than 40 lawsuits filed in recent days by state attorneys general, unions and nonprofits seek to erect a bulwark in the ...

Ballotpedia's Federal Judicial Vacancy Count tracks the vacancy levels in the federal courts for Article III judges. As of the monthly report for February 1, 2025, there were 42 vacancies across 870 ...

It was OPM that first created a government-wide email system and then blasted it with an offer to millions of federal workers giving ... with help from the Supreme Court, for the president to ...

A federal judge on Friday sided with a coalition of 22 states and temporarily blocked a federal aid funding freeze directed by the Trump administration — the second such order this week. U.S ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling that the federal law infringes on the Second Amendment rights of 18- to 20-year-olds. By Clarissa-Jan Lim A federal appeals court on Thursday ...

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Conner did not act on the residency dispute, but he ruled on Jan. 25, 2025, that the federal court had no jurisdiction in the matter and moved the case back to Wichita ...