An increasingly influential group of conservative scholars has some drastic ideas about the president’s power.

Courts have become Democrats' best chance of thwarting President Donald Trump's efforts to significantly downsize and reshape the federal government.

For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second ...

Charles Smiley, a 12-year judge of the Alameda County Superior Court, will serve as a justice on the First District Court of ...

Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...

Trump’s executive orders and firings sparked lawsuits over presidential authority. Experts are saying he is renewing founding ...