Sesame Street” debuted on this day in 1969. Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been on the program to settle a dispute between characters and talk about what it means to have […] ...

Reagan-appointed federal Judge Mark Wolf resigned his lifetime appointment to publicly criticize what he calls President Donald Trump's "assault" on judicial independence and the rule of law.

A federal appeals court in Boston left the full benefits order in place late on Sunday, though a Supreme Court order ensures ...

Courts around the country and U.S. officials found no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome of the election.

One of Minnesota’s most polarizing courtroom moments involved a 65-year-old mother. Julie Louise Myhre-Schnell was sentenced ...

The death penalty is a travesty when it is used against anyone. It is called the ultimate penalty for a reason. In the American legal tradition, it is only to be imposed after a careful weighing ...

President Donald Trump has depended on the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority to uphold his broad use of executive ...

I n 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed me as a federal judge. I was 38 years old. At the time, I looked forward to ...

The ability of the government to track our movements has started to raise really important privacy issues,” says one expert.