John Dramani Mahama is the President of Ghana. He was first sworn into office in 2012 and served until 2016. Unlike some of ...

Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” have argued that Pope Francis violated the fundamental rights of ...

Switzerland's highest court has sent the case of Jordan Chiles' disputed bronze medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics back to ...

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

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Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. On Jan. 20, in what would be an otherwise […] The post Supreme Court ...

"[A] repetition of uncorroborated statements rarely supplies a basis for a valid misconduct complaint," Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote in an order ...

As the 250th anniversary of our independence approaches, let us linger over the most important sentence that James Madison ever wrote, and the most relevant to the current moment. “The accumulation of ...

Shanae Pickens, a former assistant state attorney, has been appointed as a circuit judge in Marion County. Pickens will ...

James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, recently defended the department’s policy and ...

President Trump, Gov. Newsom and other politicians pressured judges. Judges say they can’t bow to political or popular will, only to the law.

In New York, the Court of Appeals’ decisions are binding statewide. Appellate Division rulings bind trial courts within their department and, if the only decision on an issue, are also binding across ...