Though not elected by their constituents, magistrates work in tandem with elected judges to handle both civil and criminal proceedings, easing the heavy burden brought on by increasing case filings ...

The three lawsuits that have been simmering in the federal court system for several years and were all vying for the attention of the United States Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of the ...

Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a powerful title. These are the people populating the nation's highest legal tribunal.

Trump is, in effect, creating a permission structure and legal system whereby right-wing violence has the special protection of the state.

The decision is the latest in which the court’s conservative majority sided with the president’s power to fire agency officials in violation of long-standing laws.

Under the bill, new Supreme Court justices would be nominated every two years, specifically in the first and third years following a presidential election.

The Department of Justice today asked the Supreme Court to block a ruling that requires DOGE to provide information about its government cost-cutting operations as part of court-ordered discovery ...

A federal judge seized control of New York City’s troubled jail system — ordering that an outside official be brought in to clean up Rikers Island and other lock-ups.

Paul Drutz-Hannahs, the federal court system’s AI pilot lead, said the federated nature of the judiciary is a strength for testing innovations.

More than 120 lawsuits are challenging Trump’s second-term agenda. Here’s how the federal court system works and how it’s become ground zero in the lawfare against his agenda.

More than 120 lawsuits are challenging Trump’s second-term agenda. Here’s how the federal court system works and how it’s become ground zero in the lawfare against his agenda.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday drew attention to Congress’s power over the federal judiciary as Republicans plot how to legislatively channel their outrage over district judges who have ...