The specter of a federal prosecutor putting a city’s mayor or a state’s governor in jail raises constitutional questions.

The former Senate leader's 2016 move to block Merrick Garland's nomination was a "total concoction to give the gloss of ...

A Supreme Court Justice dubbed by the New York Times as Donald Trump's "judicial hero" once rejected a plan similar to the ...

If Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney, agrees to drop the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams, the decision could ...

Danielle Sassoon, who earlier in her career was a law clerk for conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, was appointed to the powerful perch Monday afternoon.

Discover how the current Supreme Court has broken with tradition, not only in its rulings but also in its approach to ...

While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more ...

Most federal agency leaders and similar officials can be fired at will by the president. But federal law provides that members of the NLRB, like top officials at a number of similar agencies, may be ...