WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack​ Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of​ sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the​ next fo...

Bush wants the Senate to vote on filling 34​ judicial vacancies in the federal circuit and​ distric courts

Lawmakers backing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appealed​ a judge's refusal to block the state​ Legislature's investigation into her firing​ of the s...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A panel of federal appeals​ court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on​ Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to​ Intern...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Justice​ Department officials who improperly used political​ criteria in hiring decisions for career lawyers​ and immigr...

Justice Department officials committed no crime by​ letting improper political considerations drive​ hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and​ othe...

Attorney General Michael Mukasey says former​ Justice Department officials will not face​ prosecution for letting improper political​ considerations driv...

State judge is preparing to rule on the settling​ of finances of former governor, who came out after​ a gay affair was exposed, and his estranged wife.

A U.S. appeals court is comparing a military​ decision at Guantanamo Bay to a nonsensical​ 19th-century poem by Lewis Carroll.