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Shane Lee Brown is suing the police departments in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nev., and several officers after they jailed him for six days, instead of a white man with a similar name who is taller, nearly twice as old and a convicted felon (…

President Biden two historic federal judgeship nominations in Georgia, Victoria Marie Calvert and Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, . If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Calvert would become the second black female judge to serve that court,…

Less than two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v. Oklahoma held that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma, which was reserved for the Creek Nation in the 19th century, remains a…

Prosecutors and defense attorneys made their opening statements this morning in the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers who are charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights. Floyd was killed in May of 2020 in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than…

President Joe Biden could potentially double the number of Black women ever confirmed to federal appellate courts, a key stepping stone to the U.S. Supreme Court (…

Georgia sheriff began a policy in 2018 of putting signs in the yards of all 57 registered sex offenders in the county that read, "STOP" and "NO TRICK-OR-TREAT AT THIS ADDRESS." District court: That's fine. Eleventh…

The Supreme Court on Thursday in Hemphill v. New York sided with a criminal defendant who said his Sixth Amendment rights were violated at a trial during which he was convicted of murder.

The issue is whether…

Utah is ready to abolish the death penalty, author and activist Bryan Stevenson told lawmakers on Wednesday (view full article).

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President Joe Biden has nominated a veteran public defender, Arianna J. Freeman, to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, where she would be the first woman of color to sit on an appellate bench that oversees cases for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands (…

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…