Judicial Branch

FILE - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Aug. 22, 2007, in Washington. Judge Pauline Newman, a 96-year-old U.S. federal appeals court judge, has been barred from hearing cases for a year after a panel said she refused to undergo medical testing over concerns she's no longer mentally fit to serve on the bench. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

Appeals court extends suspension of 98-year-old judge over age concerns

Jack Birle · July 29, 2025 1:21 pm

Senate confirms Trump’s first judicial appointment of second term

Samantha-Jo Roth · July 14, 2025 6:13 pm

President Donald Trump says he's been freed from the "bad power" of district court judges.

White House says ‘every’ nationwide injunction to be revisited

Haisten Willis · July 2, 2025 5:00 am

Amy Coney Barrett dismisses Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent on nationwide injunction decision

David Zimmermann · June 27, 2025 1:43 pm

From left, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson listen as President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP)

Supreme Court racks up unanimous decisions as contentious cases loom

Jack Birle · June 13, 2025 5:00 am

James Comey.

Comey praises judiciary amid Trump administration threats: ‘Still have a leg on our stool’

Brady Knox · May 19, 2025 5:56 pm

Republicans uneasy over civil liberties backlash to Trump

Samantha-Jo Roth · May 5, 2025 7:00 am

Trump nominates first federal judge of his second term

Kaelan Deese · May 2, 2025 5:30 am

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) meets with reporters after President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan to prevent a Christmas government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

Jeffries calls for Supreme Court to hold Trump officials in contempt over deportation ruling

Brady Knox · April 14, 2025 11:15 pm

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is the latest Republican to war with anti-Trump district judges.

DeSantis suggests district judges defying Trump orders acting against Constitution

Haisten Willis · March 30, 2025 10:18 am

The Supreme Court Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington.

Democrats’ Trump resistance crisis spreads to the legal world

Mabinty Quarshie · March 26, 2025 7:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Friday, March 21, 2025.

Beltway Confidential

Trump urges the Supreme Court to stop the madness

Elizabeth Stauffer · March 24, 2025 7:00 am