Conservative opposition is expected in the U.S. Senate.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has canceled an appearance at a judicial conference set to begin on Thursday after a draft decision he wrote indicating the high court would overturn its...

He has emerged as an important justice with a distinctive interpretive method that is pragmatic yet rooted in originalism and textualism.

A prominent Republican-appointed federal judge on Thursday took the rare step of arguing that U.S. Supreme Court justices should be subject to an ethics code, saying the judiciary has done an...

Legislation that would subject U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges to tougher disclosure requirements for their financial holdings and stock trades passed the House of Representatives on...

A federal judicial rules-making panel on Tuesday agreed to examine whether to curtail "judge shopping" by state attorneys general and activists who file lawsuits challenging government policies in...

A federal appeals court judge on Wednesday argued his judicial peers too often succumb to a "judges gone wild" mentality of writing "show off" opinions that may trend on Twitter but risk alienating...

A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by a group of gun manufacturers, distributors and retailers challenging the constitutionality of a New York law that allows the state and people...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday moved to further diversify the federal bench in terms of demographics and job experience with five new judicial nominees, including two women with backgrounds as...

Suspense over Senate control came as it remained unknown which party will hold the majority in the House. Republicans continued to have an edge, but returns were still flowing in for several races,...

Deutsche Bank AG agreed to pay $26.25 million to settle a U.S. shareholder lawsuit accusing the German bank of lax oversight while doing business with risky, ultra-rich clients like Jeffrey Epstein...

A federal appeals court judge appointed by former Republican President Donald Trump argued jurists "must not be afraid of being booed" by issuing rulings unpopular with "cultural elites" and people...

A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that...

President Joe Biden's nominees to the federal bench are winning U.S. Senate confirmation at a pace not seen in half a century, as Democrats race to put their stamp on the increasingly conservative...

Elon Musk says George Soros hates humanity without any explanation why.

The U.S. Senate on Monday signed-off on President Joe Biden's sixth appointment to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, as Democrats speed up the pace of judicial confirmations ahead of the...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson has selected a diverse set of lawyers to serve as her first four law clerks, including one who has advocated for the judiciary to do more to...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated five new federal judges, but did not at this time move forward with a plan opposed by a growing number of Democrats and progressives to appoint a...

A U.S. scientific publisher has retracted two studies, largely due to their methodology, that a Texas judge cited last year in his ruling suspending federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone...

A Christian minister-turned-judge who promised to establish prayer in his Texas courtroom during his campaign can continue opening his court each day with a ceremony that includes a prayer from a...

A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday advanced a bipartisan bill that would overhaul the federal judiciary's PACER electronic court record system and make the downloading of filings free for the public...

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A federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked enforcement of new regulations adopted during the Biden administration that sought to overhaul how lenders extend loans and other services to low- and...

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A former employee of a federal prison in Massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to secretly accepting thousands of dollars from Raj Rajaratnam while the Galleon Group hedge fund founder was serving...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has made a rare move to rule against an opioid firm before a civil trial over its role in the epidemic, saying there was a “coordinated strategy” by the...

A federal court in Texas that has become a favored destination for conservatives suing to block President Joe Biden's agenda has decided not to follow a policy adopted by the judiciary's top policy...

A Republican-appointed federal appeals court judge is calling a decision by a fellow conservative jurist on his court to boycott the hiring of law clerks from Yale Law School "regrettable" and is...

A federal appeals court judge appointed by former Republican President Donald Trump on Friday said Stanford Law School in California owed him an apology after dozens of student protesters including...

Fresh off of securing Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, Senate Democrats are preparing to push through as many lower-court judicial nominees as President Joe...

The Nixon administration veteran has died at 86

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the first Black female judge to ever serve on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving Democratic President Joe Biden his first appointee to a conservative...

U.S. appeals judge Pauline Newman has committed "serious misconduct" by refusing to cooperate with a mental fitness probe and should be suspended from hearing new cases for one year or until she...

A federal judge on Tuesday barred two reporters from his courtroom in Cleveland, right as he was set to hold a conference on issues pertaining to an upcoming trial involving drug companies over the...

Facebook Inc fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by U.S. President Donald Trump this month, citing his tweet...

A federal court in Texas that has become a favored destination for conservatives suing to block President Joe Biden's agenda on Monday adopted a new rule that would automatically pause decisions by...

A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday refused to transfer to another court a lawsuit by Republican states challenging a Biden administration rule allowing socially conscious investing by retirement...

Administrators who promote intolerance don’t belong in legal education. And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession.

A federal judge in a Texas court that has become a favorite for conservative challenges to Biden administration policies transferred a lawsuit challenging a rule curbing credit card late fees to a...

Democratic lawmakers on the U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee urged the federal judiciary on Wednesday to investigate the conduct of two Republican-appointed federal judges who have...

A federal appeals court on Monday blocked the Biden administration from proceeding with another piece of its student debt relief agenda, a rule that would make it easier for people who are defrauded...

A federal appeals court judge appointed by former Republican President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, which he said was plagued by "cancel culture"...

U.S. Circuit Judge Judith Rogers plans to step down from active service on the influential federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., giving President Joe Biden a vacancy to fill on a key court seen...

Senate Democrats plan to make confirming President Joe Biden's judicial nominees a top agenda item when they return from the holidays, after helping him put more judges on the bench than his predec...

U.S. Circuit Judge Ilana Rovner, the first woman to serve on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said on Friday she plans to step down from active service, creating a new vacancy on the Chicago-...

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday threw its support behind a lawsuit by three graduate students accusing Harvard University of ignoring sexual harassment by a professor who they said...

A judicial reform advocacy group on Tuesday filed a complaint accusing a Texas federal judge of engaging in misconduct by taking the "strange" step of requiring three attorneys for Southwest Airlines...

AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.

U.S. lawmakers have left a proposal to make the federal judiciary's PACER online court records system free out of a sprawling, $1.66 trillion spending measure unveiled on Tuesday, a setback for...

President Joe Biden on Monday unveiled his first new judicial nominees in nearly a month, as he moved to appoint four new federal judges in three states.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday appeared open to siding with convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his latest bid to reverse his death sentence for his role in the 2013 attack...