The U.S. Supreme Court acts as the protector and interpreter of the Constitution. The nine Supreme Court justices remain the final arbiters of the law, charged with ensuring the American people ...

On Friday, a CT committee was asked to approve wrongful-conviction awards totaling $37.6 million for eight people.

During its first few weeks, the Trump Administration has unleashed a flurry of measures to radically reshape the federal ...

Lawyer Catalino Generillo Jr. asked the high court to issue a writ of mandamus so that senators will immediately constitute themselves into an impeachment court and “forthwith” conduct a public trial.

In 1828, gold was found in the Appalacian Mountains of Georgia on land that belonged to the Cherokee Nation. As word of the ...

For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second ...

Courts have become Democrats' best chance of thwarting President Donald Trump's efforts to significantly downsize and reshape the federal government.

When we asked you, readers of CNN.com and the What Matters newsletter, for your questions about the whirlwind of news that ...

An increasingly influential group of conservative scholars has some drastic ideas about the president’s power.

Richard Lee Tabler was executed by Texas for a 2004 double murder; he expressed remorse and had ended his legal appeals. His ...

The Department of Energy has paused the firings of hundreds of employees who work for a key agency maintaining the U.S.

A second federal judge on Friday paused President Donald Trump’s executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19. U.S. District ...