An NPR investigation finds federal judges have enormous influence with few checks on their power. Law clerks and other judicial employees are vulnerable to mistreatment and have few job protections.

President Donald Trump’s order threatening to block federal funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth is now indefinitely on hold under a Seattle judge’s order late ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of his hardline ...

A federal appeals court has revived legal action in the Kendrick Johnson case, allowing his parents to sue individual ...

Nels S.D. Peterson was unanimously elected to become the next chief justice, and Sarah Hawkins Warren will be the next presiding justice.

Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should overrule or limit a 75-year-old ruling in a dissent published on Monday ...

The dispute before the high court is one of several legal challenges that have arisen after Trump issued numerous executive ...

There is just one appeals court for the entire U.S. immigration system — the Board of Immigration Appeals, in Falls Church, ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of Virginia drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was not entitled to reimbursement of their attorney’s fees even though a federal district cour ...

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump ...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday night paused a lower court-imposed midnight deadline to restart $2 ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment ...