There are skeptics who say the American Constitution Society has long been resistant to change and that the legal left is overly fixated on anti-Trumpism. Phil Brest is hopeful the group not only help...

Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit plans to step away from active status, handing President Donald Trump a rare appellate vacancy to fill as judges have been s...

President Donald Trump plans to nominate his personal attorney, Justin Smith, to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, along with three trial court picks for Kansas.

A Washington judge who preserved legal protections for Haitian immigrants received graphic and violent messages in response to her ruling last week.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate a former prosecutor for a federal judgeship in South Carolina, one of only a few Black women he’s tapped for the federal bench across his two presidential term...

The Senate has stepped up confirmations of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, as just a handful now remain in the pipeline with the administration slow to announce new picks.

A federal appeals court judge appointed by President Donald Trump advised her uncle, who faced sexual misconduct allegations, prior to her judicial appointment, according to materials released related...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has recommended a former assistant US attorney and longtime congressional aide to be the first Black woman nominated for a federal judgeship in President Donald Trump’s second ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a US district court nominee who was pressed by a Republican member for on past religious sermons and teachings he gave.

A Senate Judiciary Committee Republican questioned one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees about his religious views based on sermons and teachings he gave as a church elder that covered top...

References to the late Justice Antonin Scalia spiked during Supreme Court oral arguments this year, highlighting his lasting influence on how the court interprets the law.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has adopted a more tepid response to a White House that has aggressively asserted its power, stretched the law, and fired many of the watchdogs Gras...

Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has adopted a more tepid response to a White House that has aggressively asserted its power, stretched the law, and fired many of the watchdogs Gras...

A Senate Judiciary Committee Republican questioned one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees about his religious views based on sermons and teachings he gave as a church elder that covered top...

Alaska’s Republican senators are agreeing to disagree on the best approach for vetting contenders seeking to fill emergency vacancies on the state’s federal trial court.

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A progressive advocacy group is spending over $1 million to expand its offensive against Senate Democrats who vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees.

A Trump-appointed trial judge and a senior Justice Department official are included on a White House list of candidates interviewing for a federal appeals court seat in Missouri, a person familiar wit...

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nominations of two Trump district court nominees from Mississippi whose progress in the chamber was stalled for months by a lone member of the panel.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has kept President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees in Mississippi from advancing as he seeks to compel federal recognition for an indigenous group as a tribe in his state.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has kept President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees in Mississippi from advancing as he seeks to compel federal recognition for an indigenous group as a tribe in his state.

President Donald Trump’s nominees for federal judgeships and chief prosecutors in Mississippi are caught up in a dispute between a key Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the state’s senators.

The Senate Judiciary Committee again delayed votes on two nominees for federal judgeships in Mississippi who’ve struggled for over a month to advance out of the Republican-led panel.

Two Trump judicial nominees are struggling to reach a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance their nominations to federal courts in Mississippi, the panel’s chair said.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin opposed Rebecca Taibleson’s bid for an appellate seat as the Wisconsin Democrat faced angering progressives or rejecting the bipartisan process that yielded the nomination.

President Donald Trump’s pick for a federal judgeship in Alabama won a broad margin of bipartisan support in a procedural Senate floor vote to advance his nomination.

Judges appointed by President Ronald Reagan are emerging as vocal critics of the Trump administration’s efforts to circumvent court orders or challenge the law in unprecedented ways, backed by decades...

A progressive advocacy group expanded a media blitz against selected Senate Democrats for supporting President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees.

The Senate confirmed Jennifer Mascott, a Trump White House lawyer and administrative law scholar, to an appeals court judgeship in Delaware despite criticism of her limited ties to the state.

President Donald Trump’s pick for a federal appeals judgeship in Delaware is staying active in the public eye, an unusual move for judicial nominees who typically assume a lower profile during nominat...

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) is reserving her judgment on President Donald Trump’s appeals court pick to serve in her state.

Conservatives are divided on whether President Donald Trump’s recent nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is conservative enough to earn an appointment to the federal bench.

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) came under pressure from a leading progressive advocacy group after becoming the first Democrat to support a Donald Trump judicial nominee in the president’s second term.

The pace of federal judges announcing their retirements is picking up after a lull in the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

President Donald Trump was expected to seek a different kind of judicial nominee this term: fewer establishment Federalist Society types and more “bold and fearless” conservatives who’ve signaled pers...

A federal appeals court nominee faced questions about her views on Supreme Court precedent at the center of Donald Trump’s efforts to expand presidential authority over the firing of independent agency officials.

US District Judge David Godbey of the Northern District of Texas will take senior status next month, handing President Donald Trump another seat to fill on the Dallas-based court.

President Donald Trump returned to a favorite source of battle tested conservative lawyers to fill judicial vacancies in picking the first nominee of his second term: the ranks of state attorneys and ...