Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says he doesn’t blame U.S. Appeals Judge Jay Bybee for being a no-show at a congressional hearing yesterday on Justice Department memos approving harsh interrogation techniques…
The University Club’s discounted club memberships for federal judges—offered, apparently as a way around a federal ban on honorary club memberships worth more than $50—are also likely verboten.
Did a newspaper story earlier this week send a signal that President Obama may not name a Hispanic to the U.S. Supreme Court when he makes his first appointment?
As part of a $122 million renovation and security-enhancement project launched in 2003 at the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the public will someday no longer be allowed to enter…
Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has many accomplishments in his career, including solicitor general, federal judge and now dean of Pepperdine University School of Law. But there is one gap…
Sentenced yesterday to 33 months in federal prison for obstruction of justice in a case related to alleged sexual abuse of courthouse employees, a federal judge was in new trouble…
A Minnesota judge said he would have referred 19 divorce cases to Collins Buckley Sauntry & Haugh for mediation regardless of whether he personally benefitted, because the law firm does…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was his usual blunt self last month when he responded to a law student’s question on how to become “outrageously successful” despite a lack…
A federal judge described by his own lawyer as an alcoholic apologized to his family and the court staff today and described himself as “completely broken” before he was May 11, 2009 10:05 PM CDT