The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...

Judge Juan Merchan was scheduled to issue a decision Tuesday on whether the Supreme Court's broad presidential immunity ...

The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ appeal seeking to move to ...

The first vote the lame-duck Senate will take as it returns Tuesday will be on a nominee for a Chicago federal court, kicking ...

President-elect Trump’s White House victory has created tussles among conservatives and liberals alike over whether the ...

Donald Trump's critics warn that he will have "no guardrails" in a second term, but his agenda and his personal impulses won’t proceed entirely unchecked.

Thoams Creech, described by authorities as a serial killer who has “admitted to killing upwards of 40 people,” was sentenced ...

A liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris to replace US Supreme Court Justice ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Georgetown Law Professor Steve Vladeck about the role federal courts can play as a check on presidential power during a second Trump Administration.

Former President Donald Trump’s return to power is setting off a flurry of speculation and interparty bickering about ...