Trump demands loyalty from his judicial nominees. As Emil Bove demonstrated on Tuesday, his nominees are very comfortable ...

The Trump administration published a proposed rule on Monday that would redefine the term “waters of the United States” as Congress used it in the Clean Water Act. The change would revoke the federal ...

Over the past several months, the Trump administration has launched some two dozen airstrikes in the Caribbean Sea against small boats suspected of involvement in drug trafficking, resulting in at ...

Seven years ago, Hamilton County prosecutors and Nichols’s lawyers reached a deal to re-sentence him to life in prison. The judge refused to accept it.

On Thursday, a federal district judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s mass cancellation of grants related to “diversity” to move forward, rejecting the Trump administration ...

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 ...

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed at 10 AM today as punishment for a murder he did not commit. At 9:59, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt instructed the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to call ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in three cases about the conditions under which federal judges can reduce a prison sentence. As a general rule, judges may not modify a term of ...

Just before Labor Day, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals set the stage for what may be the most consequential labor law confrontation in a generation. In its opinion in SpaceX v. National Labor ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made waves earlier this month when she used her perch to offer a vision of racial equality that stands at odds with how the Supreme Court often treats matters of race.

The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...