Houghton will take the bench Aug. 16 and stand for election in 2026. He succeeds Kristina Bogardus, who retired in June.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated taxes on the transfer of certain weapons, possibly eliminating the constitutional basis for registering those weapons.

One longtime conservative federal judge is not mincing words about President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, and is arguing that they present a severe threat to both the U.S. Constitution and the rule ...

Sex trafficker fights DOJ move to unseal grand jury records - Maxwell’s attorneys say she wants to keep grand jury transcripts from public view as she continues her appeal to the Supreme Court and to ...

On July 31, 2025, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an opinion vacating the wire fraud and ...

A woman who fled domestic violence in El Salvador successfully revived her case seeking refugee status after adequately pleading her risk of harm to a federal appeals court.

A federal judge blocked an Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in schools. The law is one of three being ...

A federal judge on Monday decided to halt an Arkansas law that mandated the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, barring four of the state’s largest school districts from ...

Miller’s behavior, outlined in the lawsuit, included showing pornography to employees against their will, repeatedly ...

Pacific Legal Foundation plaintiff does not appeal court decision in dangerous lawsuit seeking to gut longstanding “Swampbuster” protections ...

Texas can require people applying to vote by mail to submit identification numbers that match state records, a federal ...

Democratic U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is raising the alarm about an appeals court's handling of allegations that Trump administration officials violated a judge's order stopping flights carrying ...