US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said his withdrawal from a high-stakes climate change case involving the oil and gas industry was a “difficult judgment call” he made even after the court’s legal office said he didn’t have to disqualify himself.

The Justice Department accused Minnesota federal judges of misconduct by speaking to the New York Times about government lawyers violating court orders during the Trump administration’s immigration su...

Federal prosecutors in Boston are under mounting pressure to imminently charge a military veteran for allegedly making threatening phone calls to Stephen Miller’s wife, despite internal evidentiary co...

President Donald Trump will have another opportunity to appoint a judge to the influential US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

FBI co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey has resigned following a brief and tumultuous tenure sharing the duties as No. 2 to Kash Patel, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller’s wife, said thr...

A trio of Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices landed invitations to a state dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping, including two of President Donald Trump’s picks he’s sharply criticize...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the Supreme Court’s recent approach to its emergency docket has had a corrosive effect on litigation practices and strained the court’s relationship with the lower c...

The Justice Department is enlisting military attorneys as temporary prosecutors supporting law enforcement surges in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, according to a Defense Department email rev...

The Trump administration says it has identified a replacement for an immigrant detention case that had been set for argument but then dismissed by the US Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump is invoking a familiar legal tactic to justify plans to build a triumphal arch in Washington: claiming the proposed monument is necessary to protect US national security.

Several career Justice Department prosecutors recently confronted Attorney General Todd Blanche about politically motivated firings and low morale during a closed-door meet-and-greet in Atlanta, highl...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to weigh in on President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Supreme Court, even as he revived his sharp criticisms of her and his other appointees.

President Donald Trump has nominated far fewer Asian Americans or Pacific Islanders as judges so far in his second term compared to his first, while continuing to appoint fewer members of other minori...

Donald Trump appointees to the US Supreme Court appeared to stay consistent with past positions they’ve staked out on the bench as the court rejected the president’s effort to reshape mail-in voting, ...

The Justice Department’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.

Judge Indira Talwani, who again paused President Donald Trump’s mail-ballot rule last week, is the only judge on a Boston bench flooded with challenges to the administration to have one of those rulin...

Justice Department leaders are pressing prosecutors nationwide to boost noncitizen voting charges before the midterms, relying on a rarely-used statute that some officials acknowledge presents evident...

The Supreme Court’s decision allowing construction to continue on a White House ballroom could hinder legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s other efforts to leave his mark on Washington’s histo...

The Justice Department is preparing to activate a long-dormant maritime war court to streamline military capture of Iranian oil tankers as US prizes, according to three people familiar with the plans.

Justice Clarence Thomas says his experience working a farm as a young child has underpinned his characteristic skepticism on the Supreme Court toward deferring to precedents that he believes were wron...

The Justice Department’s new overseer of executive branch FOIA records disclosures brings a right-wing background working to expose alleged Democratic wrongdoing to a formerly apolitical position.

Republican attorneys general and the Trump Justice Department are teaming up in court to quickly block laws that cut against their agenda.

President Donald Trump put forward a new batch of nominees for district court judgeships, largely clearing the backlog of red state vacancies as time dwindles for the Senate to process his picks.

Don Berthiaume outlined plans for vigorous yet restrained Justice Department oversight shortly after his swearing-in as inspector general, highlighting the delicate balancing act he must perform as a ...

President Donald Trump will nominate an Arkansas federal trial court judge to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

The top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles hired his former senior state legislative aide who faces potential imminent jail time for violating a drunk-driving probation due to new battery and grand the...

Jennifer Mascott’s tenure at public affairs firm Adfero sparked questions around conflicts of interest and partisanship.

FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to shrink his legal advisory office, deepening divisions with his general counsel as outside lawsuits challenge prior staff terminations, said people familiar with ...

In the weeks that followed President Trump’s order last August to send the National Guard into Washington, federal prosecutors filed more than two dozen cases charging people with assaults on federal ...

Trump’s 11 appointees to the 29-seat Ninth District have written separate opinions at a higher rate than their colleagues, with several cited by the Supreme Court in major decisions this year.

The Justice Department is overstating the extent to which the Nevada US attorney’s office has increased criminal charges and indictments while losing prosecutors during President Trump’s second term, ...

The Justice Department is overstating the extent to which the Nevada US attorney’s office has increased criminal charges and indictments while losing prosecutors during President Trump’s second term, ...

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President Donald Trump announced he plans to nominate Anna St. John to a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Four Supreme Court justices reported a combined income of roughly $2.4 million from recently authored books, further demonstrating how lucrative the publishing world is for members of the court.

The Defense Department is planning to begin involuntarily activating military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and to represent the government in cases involving detained migrant children, accor...

The Justice Department watchdog recently bypassed its own disclosure rules by providing Senate Republicans with highly-sensitive interview transcripts scrutinizing DOJ’s probe into Russian 2016 electi...

The Supreme Court’s decision allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants from Haiti and Syria again exposed a sharp divide over how the justices assess President Donald Tru...

White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based ca...

White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation.

A conservative federal judge in Texas on Monday ruled against a Biden-era rule codifying immigration judges’ authority to close migrants’ removal proceedings—hours after the state filed a lawsuit chal...

Several prominent conservative leaning judges are seen as auditioning to become President Trump’s next pick for the Supreme Court.

The Justice Department’s top civil rights enforcer can extend the anti-DEI approach she’s championed under President Donald Trump as the Education Department offloads key responsibilities.

A flood of challenges by immigrants seeking to be freed from detention facilities are delaying civil cases, forcing courts to hire more employees, and prompting some judges to share concerns directly ...

An Atlanta federal judge who had an affair in her chambers sent her former clerks revised apology letters Thursday, hours after a media report that she sent three-line letters that didn’t address her ...