A former top official at the Department of Justice known for having blessed harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, for terrorism suspects has told congressional investigators that the CIA used techniques…
A Minnesota judicial ethics board is recommending reprimands for a Hennepin County judge accused of calling potential witnesses a “bunch of drunkards’ and joking about murderous urges in his marriage.
A former state supreme court chief justice who placed a monument to the Ten Commandments at the courthouse has lost a bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Alabama.
When Judith Sheindlin agreed in 1993 to allow a reporter for the Los Angeles Times to sit quietly in the back of the New York courtroom in which she worked…
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is declining to endorse Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing unanswered questions about her civil rights views.
As plans progressed to build a new $200 million family court building in Philadelphia, the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court brought in a lawyer who had formerly served…
As senators looked for weak points in follow-up questions submitted to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, a former editor wondered why no one asked about her “substandard” pronunciations.
The nephew of Justice Clarence Thomas says he was roughed up and shocked by hospital security personnel as he tried to leave the facility in the New Orleans area last…
The judge who sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 90 days in jail for violating probation attended Southwestern Law School, but she didn’t choose it for love of…