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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joined President Joe Biden at the White House Thursday to formally announce his retirement, kicking off a rush to confirm a new member of the court to replace the oldest serving justice (view full…

For just the third time in seven years, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate (view full article).

Donald Anthony Grant was pronounced dead by lethal…

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring at the end of the current term after serving more than two decades on the nation's highest court, according to people familiar with his thinking (…

President Biden two historic federal judgeship nominations in Georgia, Victoria Marie Calvert and Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, . If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Calvert would become the second black female judge to serve that court,…

Shane Lee Brown is suing the police departments in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nev., and several officers after they jailed him for six days, instead of a white man with a similar name who is taller, nearly twice as old and a convicted felon (…

Prosecutors and defense attorneys made their opening statements this morning in the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers who are charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights. Floyd was killed in May of 2020 in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than…

President Joe Biden could potentially double the number of Black women ever confirmed to federal appellate courts, a key stepping stone to the U.S. Supreme Court (…

Less than two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v. Oklahoma held that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma, which was reserved for the Creek Nation in the 19th century, remains a…

Georgia sheriff began a policy in 2018 of putting signs in the yards of all 57 registered sex offenders in the county that read, "STOP" and "NO TRICK-OR-TREAT AT THIS ADDRESS." District court: That's fine. Eleventh…

The Supreme Court on Thursday in Hemphill v. New York sided with a criminal defendant who said his Sixth Amendment rights were violated at a trial during which he was convicted of murder.

The issue is whether…