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Leaders of the House Judiciary Committee had asked U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to open an investigation into the Eleventh Circuit chief judge’s and a Northern District of Alabama federal district judge hiring of a law clerk with “a history of nakedly racist and hateful conduct…

President Joe Biden nominated a Muslim woman for a federal judgeship for the first time in U.S. history Wednesday as part of his administration's push to reshape the federal judiciary with diversity (…

Last week, the Department of Justice announced it would begin transferring thousands of people out of federal prisons as part of the First Step Act.

FAMM has published First Step Act Earned Time Credits…

The Justice Department will begin transferring thousands of people out of federal prisons this week as part of a sweeping criminal justice overhaul signed more than three years ago (…

A top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney appeared elated when a sitting Massachusetts judge was indicted in 2018 for helping an immigrant in the country illegally evade custody, asking in an email if it would be "the first of many" such arrests, according to records made public in…

The Eighth Circuit on Monday said the government can't collect inmates' prison wages to satisfy victim restitution orders, agreeing with two other appeals court opinions and vacating a lower…

Lani Guinier, the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School and a Clinton administration nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, died Friday. She was 71 (…

North Carolina single mother of two leaving the courtroom after attending her boyfriend's plea hearing exclaims "piece of shit!" as she leaves the courtroom. The magistrate judge calls her to the bench, immediately holds a two-minute hearing, declares her guilty of criminal contempt, and…

As the omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread across the U.S., more federal courts are restricting building access and pushing back trials.    

On Monday, the U.S. reported more than 1 million new coronavirus cases, as public health officials urge individuals to get…

Michael Carvajal, the director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons whose tenure at the agency was marred by scandals and pandemic-induced struggles, will resign after nearly two years in the top position amid heavy criticism of his leadership of the agency, the Justice Department said Wednesday (…