At a confirmation hearing, the nominees, two of whom have been Trump defense lawyers, offered little to assuage Democrats’ ...

Prosecutors' errors violated the constitutional rights of Richard Glossip when he was tried and convicted of murder, so he ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other allies of President Trump won't state a plain fact about the war. Politics has a way ...

Solicitor general nominee D. John Sauer, who was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing.

Defense secretary's contempt for Black military leaders has roots in his religion's defense of white supremacy ...

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has announced that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to ...

Two of President Donald Trump’s nominees for senior Justice Department positions – including his former personal attorney – ...

Jonathan McKernan, President Trump’s pick to lead the embattled Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is set to testify ...

The debate, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, unfolded as three nominees testified during a confirmation hearing to join the upper ranks of the Justice Department. Two of the nominees ...

Sauer, 50, was a law clerk to conservative justice Antonin Scalia and a college ... This story will be updated during Sauer’s confirmation hearing.

San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, emphasized her career in defending vulnerable populations at a U.S.