Justice Clarence Thomas became emotional during a speech at his college alma mater on Thursday as he remembered the time he had dropped out of the seminary and got kicked…
A man who spent 21 years on Ohio’s death row before his conviction was overturned in 2008 has been charged with leaving a threatening telephone message for the judge who…
A death row inmate in North Carolina has written a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper in which he gloats about his life in prison and dares the state to…
A suspended Michigan judge wearily spent hours on the witness stand today during a legal ethics trial, answering questions about hundreds of checks showing questionable expenditures ranging from “independent contractor”…
The Louisiana Supreme Court has censured a state-court judge for using the power and prestige of his office to help a niece get a protective order, from another judge, against…
A beleaguered Tennessee judge is facing an ethics complaint alleging he kept money he collected for a Ten Commandments display and billed the state for attorney work in cases he…
An unemployed man admittedly wasn’t paying attention when an Indiana judge last month told a pool of potential jurors that they had to return to Lake County Superior Court after…
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a motion for oral argument time by a political advocacy group that argued Justice Elena Kagan should be disqualified from the constitutional challenge to…
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman has decided there was no need to recuse himself in a controversial 4-3 ruling last year upholding an anti-union law, even though a law…
Marking the two-year anniversary of a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision that opened the door to so-called Super PACs, former Justice John Paul Stevens appeared last night on comedian Stephen…
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