Justice Clarence Thomas is the “intellectual godfather” of the tea party movement, according to one of his former law clerks, University of California at Berkeley law professor John Yoo.
A power outage in South Florida’s busy Broward County forced court clerks, sheriff’s deputies and lawyers, among others, to work in practically prehistoric conditions without computers or email for at…
Six out of eight candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are backing limits on the federal judiciary, ranging from an end to lifetime tenure to impeachment to curbs on jurisdiction.
More than half of federal appeals judges took one or more sponsored trips in 2010, and nearly 10 percent of those who traveled went to foreign destinations.
Three Pennsylvania state senate computer hard drives were seized in Harrisburg today concerning a probe of what a judge called doctored evidence when he declared a mistrial earlier this year…
The former chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court says states may be able to preserve more marriages by passing a uniform law that imposes a one-year wait for divorce.
Crediting those who came before her, including her parents, for her new role as the first black woman on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Bernice Donald was…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called a news conference on Tuesday to blast a ruling that judges are exempt from a state law requiring state employees to pay more for…
In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, constitutional scholars have done a lot of thinking about what would happen if a catastrophic strike took out top federal…
Told that actress Lindsay Lohan had decided she didn’t want to perform community service at a women’s detention center because the work wasn’t “fulfilling,” an angry Los Angeles judge today…