Some of Judge Aileen Cannon’s decisions in Trump's Florida classified documents case have baffled one former judge, who gives her assessment of the case so far.
The Supreme Court has struck down the federal ban on bump stocks, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices.
House Republicans held the attorney general in contempt for defying a subpoena, but prosecutors said he enjoys a legal shield because the president claimed executive privilege over tapes they sought.
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected a challenge to the FDA's rules for the abortion pill mifepristone. NPR readers share the best advice their dads have given.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling upholds access to mifepristone, a drug used in more than 60% of abortions. The decision shocked some doctors and abortion rights advocates.
A judge is expected to tell Jones to sell off assets. But the families are likely to get only a tiny fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion in damages Jones owes for lies about the 2012 school shooting.
Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, according to a sweeping federal civil rights investigation.
The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.
The decision was a loss for part-time Democratic activist Steve Elster, who contended that the living-person exception to the trademark law violated his right of free speech.
Prosecutors in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump are seeking to continue their effort. They are asking the dismissal of an appeal of a ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue her prosecution of the former president and others.
President Biden is using new executive actions to block migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border. The ACLU says this goes against U.S. asylum laws.
A lawsuit filed in Brunswick which includes Georgia accuses the Department of Labor of overstepping by extending organizing protections to migrant farm workers.
This was the first of two cases against Hunter Biden brought by a Justice Department special counsel. Biden also faces tax charges in a separate prosecution scheduled to go to trial in September.