An NPR investigation finds federal judges have enormous influence with few checks on their power. Law clerks and other ...

Here’s how federal courts help determine the fate of controversial issues, such as immigration laws, in Texas and beyond.

A federal judge in San Francisco hears arguments in a case challenging the Trump administration's firings of thousands of ...

A former North Charleston City Council member became the first of four expected to enter guilty pleas to charges in a federal ...

A federal judge ruled that the terminations at agencies including the Department of Defense were probably illegal.

When lawyer Richard Gaines saw the executive order by President Donald Trump earlier this month pausing enforcement of the ...

A smart man knows when he is right; a wise man knows when he is wrong. Wisdom does not always find me, so I try to embrace it ...

A Grandview Heights man admitted in federal court Friday ... Court records say Rager messaged the woman from that account, threatening to "make an example" of her if she didn't reply to him.

A West Virginia judge ordered that a monitor be put in place to oversee state child protective services placements in hotels and camps after a 12-year-old boy in state care attempted suicide in a ...

Roberts' order came after the Trump administration sought emergency intervention by the high court after a panel of federal appeals ... to provide any specific examples of unfreezing funds ...