How four reporters are examining the most secretive branch of government — and the nine justices who shape the law.

This Article traces vacatur from English and early American practice to the Supreme Court’s modern uses. Historically used for docket management, ...

Seven people were arrested in connection with a a shot fired within a food court at a mall in Passaic County, according to the Wayne Police Department. Wayne police responded to reports of a fight and ...

A routine case takes an unexpected turn on The People’s Court when a defendant reveals a head covering invention that actually stops the courtroom cold. Judge Marilyn Milian leans in, asks the right ...

"Hearing her voice always warms my heart and reminds me how blessed I was to have been loved so deeply," she tells PEOPLE Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

BEIJING, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A Chinese court imposed jail sentences and fines on Tuesday on 27 people for shipping antimony ingots out of the country without export licences, in a ruling that ...

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Donald Trump’s recent turn as host of the Kennedy Center Honors, a first for any president, was the culmination of his purge, earlier this year, of half the center’s bipartisan board. Like other ...

Justices to consider how to determine if a person is "intellectually disabled." More than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of intellectually disabled people convicted of capital ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh used an interesting choice of phrase when describing the constitutional issues in Trump v. Slaughter, the vividly named case on the president’s ability to remove certain ...

Credit card debt is brutally expensive. The national average interest rate sits north of 21%, which means every $1,000 of debt ends up costing roughly $210 a year in interest alone. That's why 0% ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people who are intellectually disabled. Next week, on Wednesday ...