There are two front-runners on President Barack Obama’s almost all-female short list of potential candidates to fill Justice David Souter’s soon-to-be-vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the…
Some conservative groups aren’t waiting for President Obama to announce his choice to fill the seat of retiring Justice David H. Souter. They are taking aim at three potential Supreme…
Justice David H. Souter has in the past avoided the limelight. But in a speech yesterday at Georgetown Law Center decrying Americans’ lack of civic knowledge, the retiring justice demonstrated…
A former Florida judge who made headlines when he presided over custody hearings concerning Anna Nicole Smith’s infant daughter has been cleared once again in a second state agency investigation…
A retired federal judge renowned for his kindness, hard work and fairness in the courtroom died yesterday after a long illness. David Winder, a former chief judge of the U.S.…
The presiding judge of the Los Angeles county courts is jumping ahead of a statewide proposal to shut down courts one day a month with his own court closing order.
As a trial began yesterday over an alleged gang slaying, Seattle police knew that a suspect being sought on a warrant was likely to be in the courtroom. So they…
A federal judge has told a Colorado newspaper that she was approached by people in contact with the White House about her interest in a U.S. Supreme Court nomination.