U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper on Friday blocked the order, saying that “[t]he Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections."

A federal court has dealt a major blow to President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order aimed at reshaping the nation’s election rules, ruling it unconstitutional and a clear overreach of presidential authority.

A Massachusetts federal judge Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring states to mandate voters in federal elections provide documents proving their citizenship, ruling the measure would cause a significant burden to states and potentially harm voters.

Latasha Anderson, of Lynn, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to 20 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for coercing two victims to engage in prostitution.

A federal judge ordered the detained Tufts University student's petition for her release to be transferred from Massachusetts to Vermont. U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper for Massachusetts ...

A breach of contract claim is moving forward against two engineering companies in connection to the $28 million rehabilitation of the Merrimack River Bridge in Haverhill, Massachusetts, after a ...