The faltering prosecutions reveal the risks of stretching criminal law for political ends.

An appeals court previously ruled that a key 1935 precedent, long in the cross hairs of the conservative legal movement, ...

The administration is leaning on lightning rulings to bypass district court judges standing athwart its agenda.

Tennessee has executed Oscar Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad ...

In a term that was increasingly overshadowed by emergency requests related to President Trump’s swift executive actions, ...

The judge, Brian E. Murphy, said Wednesday that Trump officials had given the deportees “plainly insufficient” time to ...

The new Department of Justice "weaponization czar," Ed Martin, talked to Tucker Carlson hoaxes pushed by the Biden DOJ. ED ...

Prosecutors have long spoken only through court filings, to investigate crimes, not people. That’s changing as President ...

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Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve just over three ...

The Supreme Court ruled a Maine Republican state lawmaker censured for a post about a transgender athlete must be allowed to ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether the Catholic Church in Oklahoma can run the nation’s first religious charter school, a potentially major expansion of the use ...