Federal judge articles
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Federal Judge Directs His Scorn At Trump’s Courtroom Behavior
You may have missed the withering treatment Donald Trump received from the federal judge in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.
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Some North Carolina Abortion Pill Restrictions Are Unlawful, Federal Judge Says
Some of North Carolina government's restrictions on dispensing abortion pills are unlawful because they frustrate the goal of Congress to use federal regulators to ensure the drug is distributed safely, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
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Federal judge orders Alameda County to review death penalty cases
Dozens of death penalty convictions in Alameda County must be reviewed after prosecutors there were found to have intentionally excluded Black and Jewish jurors during a murder trial in 1995, a federal judge ordered. Handwritten notes from prosecutors in the decades-old case suggests the attorneys were involved in "serious misconduct," but Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price on Monday said additional evidence suggests more death penalty cases may have been tainted by prosecutors trying to...