USA | Law & Courts

Is a judge unsealing the 165-page brief from special counsel Jack Smith a politically timed move? It comes in the final weeks of an election campaign, but the case itself has been going on for months.

Supreme Court justices are set to grapple with cases involving transgender rights, “ghost guns,” and fallout from the court’s decisions to weaken federal agencies. And then there’s the election.

After a term in which Chief Justice John Roberts wrote landmark opinions benefiting former President Donald Trump, some court watchers are reevaluating his institutionalist image.

Nebraska’s high court is ruling on whether a new law, letting those with felony convictions vote, is constitutional. How U.S. voting rights are shaking out.

Prosecuting a former and would-be leader may be the ultimate stress test of a nation’s justice system. Donald Trump’s criminal cases are all delayed.

A New York judge agreed to postpone the sentencing of former President Donald Trump in a criminal case involving falsified records on hush money.

President Biden had resisted calls to reform the Supreme Court. Then came the July decision offering former presidents immunity for any official act.

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed the Trump documents case, saying the special counsel leading the prosecution has no constitutional power to do so. Where does that leave independent investigations of presidents?

At a time when a majority of Americans believe the high court makes decisions based on ideology rather than on the law, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has quietly gone her own way, even on hot-button issues.

Portland became famous for a failed drug decriminalization measure. But the two sides found themselves doing something they rarely did: talking. Out of that, a promising program was born. Part 1 of a series.