THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

Can Trump pardon himself? Would the courts reject the move?

The Justice Department has previously taken the view that the Constitution does not allow a sitting president to be indicted, but a former ...

US Supreme Court clears way for execution of only woman on federal death row

Challenges were fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow execution of Montgomery, 52, who had initially been scheduled to ...

Analysis: A GOP reckoning after turning blind eye to Donald Trump

At the heart of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was a lie, one that was allowed to fester and flourish by many of the same Rep...

How Donald Trump made the fantasy real

Throughout the Donald Trump era there has been a debate among his critics about whether to regard this presidency as a mortal threat to the...

Now it can be told: How Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Sheehan got the Pentagon papers

From the moment he secured the 7,000 pages of classified government documents on the Vietnam War for The New York Times, until his death Th...

Joe Biden to introduce Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general

The four lawyers are to be introduced by Biden at an event Thursday afternoon in Wilmington, Delaware.

The warning from acting U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen comes days after the Sindh High Court in Pakistan's south overturned a governme...

Right of being represented through lawyer is part of due process clause, says Supreme Court

"In case the advocate representing the cause of the accused, for one reason or the other was not available, it was open to the court to app...

Donald Trump's court appointments will leave decades-long imprint

Donald Trump used the promise of conservative judicial appointments to win over Republican skeptics as a candidate. Then as president, he r...

Trump returns to court in Wisconsin as time running out

Trump was pushing to overturn Joe Biden's narrow win in Wisconsin with both a state and federal lawsuit in courts there and as part of a br...

Even in defeat, Donald Trump tightens grip on state GOP lawmakers

The extraordinary intervention by the president, and the willingness of some top party leaders to abet his effort to subvert an election, d...

Biden says he hopes Supreme Court rejects Trump bid on 2020 census count

The court heard arguments on Tuesday in the administration's bid to fend off a legal challenge to the plan, which is one of Trump's hardlin...

Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump's census plan

The census already is facing novel questions over deadlines, data quality and politics, including whether the incoming Biden administration...

Trump expresses doubt on whether Supreme Court will hear election cases

Trump said he would still continue to fight the results of election, which was won by Democratic President-elect Joe Biden. "My mind will n...

'Calling vote unfair doesn't make it so': US court rejects Trump's Pennsylvania election case

"Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make i...

Judge calls Trump claim challenging Biden win in Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster'

U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, described the case as "strained legal arguments without merit and speculat...

Donald Trump's appointee Amy Coney Barrett takes part in first Supreme Court arguments

Although Barrett officially started work last Tuesday, she did not participate in Friday's private conference in which the justices discuss...