Chief Justice Nathan Hecht leaves a legacy of legal wisdom, low-income litigant advocacy and a blueprint for judicial ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has revealed the Democratic Party’s secret weapon in fighting a rearguard action against ...

A holiday blowup over immigration between Trump's tech advisers and the GOP base suggests the road may be littered with obstacles.

The problem has been percolating for a while. It’s been subterranean. Lurking underneath the surface. Not necessarily perceptible. Except to those who follow Congress closely. But the issue has ...

The president of San Jose, José Raúl Mulino rejected that notion as an affront to his country’s sovereignty. Along with ...

Sports betting is legal in 38 states and the District of Columbia, with Missouri set to become the 39th state next year.

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind ...

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...

The Clinton-era law created a separate, unequal justice system for prisoners, placing obstacles in their way before civil ...

Biden commutes the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in prison, just weeks before Trump, a proponent of ...

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be ...

Norris Holder and Billie Allen were both convicted in the 1997 St. Louis bank robbery killing of security guard Richard ...