"No, there's not a mechanism. And, the reason is, because cases get dismissed for a number of reasons," Judge Michelle ...

The speech functioned as victory lap after he emerged legally and politically unscathed from two federal prosecutions that ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

The White House sees few, if any, limits on President Trump’s executive powers in his second term, but the federal court system is much less sure. Trump’s mass firings and ...

But the hard truth for those looking to the courts to rein in the Trump administration is that the Constitution gives judges no power to compel compliance with their rulings — it is the executive ...

People in the federal court system don't have the same kind of job protections enshrined in law that most other Americans do. The courts largely police themselves. That's because judicial independence ...

So, the big question for defense lawyers is whether — and to what extent — prosecuting federal criminal cases in a Donald Trump administration may be different. The post The Justice Department under ...

The United States Federal Courthouse in Austin on June 9, 2023. Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune ...

The federal courts system is generally made up of three levels ... filed in U.S. district courts were civil lawsuits rather than criminal lawsuits. Lawsuits can take years to move through federal ...

On February 13, a federal criminal court in Argentina under universal jurisdiction ordered ... and we are confident that the legal system in Argentina will provide a fair process, including the ...

I recently took a class called “Punishment & Inequality” where we talked about the deeply rooted flaws of the American criminal justice system. As a criminology major, I’ve learned much about law ...