When judges have to ask if one ruling is a “safer choice for their family” than another, is it still justice? Judge Esther Salas explains how political attacks have threatened the foundation of the U....

There was a spike in threats against the judiciary in the early months of 2025, Marshals Service data shows.

There was a spike in threats against the judiciary in the early months of 2025, Marshals Service data shows.

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

Two former federal judges discuss how courts are handling the enormous stress being put on the legal system.

After a day of sentencing criminal defendants, Judge Lee Yeakel made a ritual of replaying each hearing in his head and worry whether he’d gotten them right.

More than 100 former California judges and almost 50 former federal judges have denounced what they described as widespread and unjustified attacks on the judiciary.

Ensuring the safety of federal judges falls to the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency within the Justice Department. But as President Trump increasingly lashes out at the courts, empowering judges to ov...

Judge Boasberg's role overseeing a new case that challenges the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador has cast an even brighter light on the longtime judge.

Conservative allies of President Donald Trump called Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett “evil,” a “closet Democrat” and a “DEI hire.”

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Once again, an incoming Trump White House is likely to clash with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But the court in San Francisco has changed since 2017.

Some experts and Democratic lawmakers say a phone call between the president-elect and Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was ethically problematic.

Judge Juan M. Merchan has few alternatives but to hand President-elect Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Sonoma County is among the larger California counties with more women on the bench. Experts say it’s a growing trend as more women become attorneys.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. presented an annual year-end report on the state of the judiciary.

Judicial nominees largely succeeded other like-minded judges, failing to offset Trump’s conservative legal inroads.

The center has already scanned more than 140,000 pages of manuscript.

A bipartisan bill that would have added 63 federal judgeships over 10 years, 21 of them in California, has hit a political brick wall.

With the TikTok ban, will the U.S. government for the first time in history outlaw a form of communication?

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