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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…

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 (…