The convicted sex offender is raising an important legal question—about whether an agreement by one federal prosecutor binds ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please ...

Weeks after the Supreme Court said judges should scale back nationwide injunctions, four lower courts have maintained or ...

The administration says lower courts put its law enforcement in California in a “straitjacket.” Or was it the Constitution?

A divided federal appeals court ruled on Friday that US District Court Judge James Boasberg cannot move ahead with criminal ...

The Trump administration argued that a lower court ruling poses a significant barrier to enforcing federal immigration laws.

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

Trump officials asked the justices to immediately halt the order from U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong in Los Angeles.

In response, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to lift the block and let the roundups begin again. And ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court order that barred U.S.

Lawyers for immigrants’ rights groups, U.S. citizens, and undocumented immigrants challenging the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts in the Los Angeles area urged the Supreme Court ...

The Justice Department called a lower-court order that limited the raids “a straitjacket" for law enforcement.