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Leilani V. Lujan has been selected as the next federal public defender for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (access announcement).  

Lujan began her four-year term Nov. 17,…

The Supreme Court on Monday morning granted cert in Erlinger v. United States, where the justices will return to a familiar statute: the Armed Career Criminal Act, which imposes an enhanced sentence for unlawful…

President Joe Biden will announce his intention Wednesday to nominate an attorney whose Senate confirmation would make him the first Muslim American judge to serve on a federal appeals court (…

The Senate passed a continuing resolution, or "CR," that would fund the government through early next year. The vote came late tonight, just a day after it passed the House (…

The U.S. Army is overturning the convictions of 110 Black soldiers — 19 of whom were executed — for a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century ago, an effort to atone for imposing harsh punishments linked to Jim Crow-era racism (…

Today the U.S. Sentencing Commission published the 2023 Demographic Differences in Federal Sentencing Report. The report updated research on…

The U.S. Supreme Court is adopting a code of ethics for its justices — a first — amid mounting criticism of gifts and trips from wealthy benefactors to certain justices (…

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the question: What is a "machinegun"? This week, the Fifth Circuit considers the even more basic question: What is a "firearm"?…

Former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby was found guilty on Thursday of two counts of perjury by a federal jury in Maryland (access full article).  

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President Joe Biden hit a milestone on Tuesday that he’ll certainly be touting on the campaign trail: He’s put 150 people into lifetime federal judgeships – and of those, 100 are women and 98 are people of color (…