The judiciary (also known as the judicial system or court system) is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state. The judiciary also provides a mechanism for the ...

A polite but no less pointed controversy has broken out over control of televised broadcasts of proceedings in federal civil courts, as part of the dispute over public viewing of the San Francisco ...

For new lawyers, clerking for a federal judge is a dream job. These prestigious positions offer a behind-the-scenes view of the judicial process, where senior members of their profession mentor young ...

Justice Clarence Thomas, in the court's latest decision upholding a GOP-drawn redistricting map in South Carolina, took aim at a key, decades-old civil rights decision, calling it an "extravagant [use ...

Montana lawmakers are pushing to limit courts’ authority to decide constitutionality. Kansas legislators want to change how state Supreme Court justices are selected. Oklahoma and other states are ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa Senator Charles Grassley introduced a proposal he says would rein in judicial injunctions like the ones that have blocked several of President Donald Trump’s actions.

Question: Why can one judge stop policy actions by Congress or the president? Answer: Federal judges at any level are very powerful figures whose authority to interpret laws and the U.S. Constitution ...

A grave threat to democracy was revealed during the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term. But it does not emanate from the White House. Judges, acting in coordination with left-wing ...

What started as a challenge to the Trump administration’s deportation policy has morphed into a battle over executive and judicial power. A federal judge said there is probable cause to hold the ...

In February 1958, a distinguished liberal jurist named Learned Hand told a distinguished liberal audience something that it did not want to hear. The U.S. Supreme Court's celebrated power of judicial ...