Capping an action-packed appellate week for the Illinois courts, Chicago election officials and a well-known city mayoral candidate, the state’s top court has just ruled—little more than 48 hours after…
Updated: A researcher who gained attention in 1998 by claiming to have found the perhaps last document executed by President Abraham Lincoln prior to his assassination in 1865 has now…
In 1996, when Mark Weston was tried for the murder of a 30-year-old mother who was attacked while walking the family dog, he was acquitted in 50 minutes. Afterward, the…
Born to a teenage single mother in Ohio who worked two jobs to provide for the family, Yvette McGee Brown has soared far above what might have been predicted for…
The Senate has convicted U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous on four articles of impeachment, making him the eighth judge to be removed from office through impeachment.
In the first time in 27 years that the House of Representatives has decided to rebuke a fellow member in this manner, it voted today to censure Rep. Charles Rangel…
An award-winning, barrier-breaking federal district court judge has been nominated by President Barack Obama for a seat on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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