When the Louisiana Supreme Court kicked Orleans Parish District Court Judge C. Hunter King from the bench in 2003, there was hardly any dispute that he was unfit for the robe. Among other violations, ...

After my post on judicial restraint – and the lack thereof – in Texas v. EPA, the opinion issued last week by Judge Robert Chambers, in Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. United States Army Corps ...

In his Oct. 29 column (“Take time to cast informed vote”) Will Wood states that “the biggest example of ‘judicial activism’ we have ever witnessed was the recent decision by the current, ...

Welcome back for another week of What's Next, where we report on the intersection of law and technology. Here's what we've got for you today. >> Fourth Circuit judges split on whether the court ...

A federal judge has dismissed charges that former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents, but the decision had nothing to do with the merits of the case. Instead, Judge Aileen Cannon ...

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, last week outlined his views on judicial appointments and cited a well-known case over school-led recitations of the ...

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WASHINGTON – Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on Tuesday in an unusually urgent and somber year-end report on the state of the federal ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his opposition to gay marriage yesterday while blasting the Supreme Court ruling boosting it as an example of judicial overreach. Christie, considered a shoo-in ...

An “investiture” is a ceremony to bestow a high rank upon an individual, like an inauguration or some military award ceremonies. In the United States, the investiture is often associated with the ...