A Mississippi man’s capital conviction will have the Supreme Court confronting racial discrimination on juries in 2026.

Among the claims for his appeal is that the then-74-year-old attorney was physically unable to flee the attacker he ...

A notice on top of its website says "the well has run dry." The Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website warning that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits ...

A federal appeals court will rehear the case in February. A majority of judges on the full panel were appointed by Trump.

A federal judge has issued a blistering dissent after two other judges on the same panel blocked Texas' congressional redistricting map from taking effect next year. The case has major ramifications ...

“There’s the old joke: What’s the difference between God and a federal district judge?" Judge Jerry Smith wrote. "Answer: God doesn’t think he’s a federal judge.” In an unusually scathing dissent, ...

PIERRE, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - South Dakota Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven R. Jensen has appointed Judge Heidi L. Linngren as the new presiding judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, replacing ...

Then-Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown talks with legislators after the State of the Judiciary address at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Feb. 6, 2019. When Texas' new GOP-friendly congressional ...

CHICAGO — The 7 th Circuit Court of Appeals has halted a federal judge’s order restricting immigration agents’ use of force — including riot control weapons like tear gas and pepper balls — against ...

Judge Matthew E.P. Thornhill also talked about politics and played Elvis songs in court, a judicial commission said. By Christine Hauser and Michael Levenson Matthew E.P. Thornhill, the ...

This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. CHICAGO — The 7 th Circuit Court of Appeals has halted a federal judge’s order restricting immigration agents’ use of ...

The 104-page dissent authored by Judge Jerry Smith, who sits on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, criticized U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown’s 160-page majority ruling, and at times mocked his ...