US Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday in an attempt to clarify his response to a question from Senator Al Franken regarding...

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) referred Turkey to the UN Security Council on Monday for failing to release one of its judges. Turkey has detained Judge Aydin Sefa Akay on suspicion...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) reached a new settlement on Monday over its surveillance of Muslims after a federal judge rejected an earlier deal in October. The new settlement would create greater oversight...

Republican representatives in the House Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee released two separate bills on Monday that, if passed, would repeal and replace...

The US Supreme Court on Monday reversed a case due to the lower courts' analysis that focused on the presence of actual bias as opposed to an objective probability of actual bias. In Rippo v. Baker...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the US Sentencing Guidelines (USSG) are not subject to challenges under the void-for-vagueness doctrine. The focus in Beckles v. United States was on §4B1.2 of the...

US President Donald Trump signed a new immigration executive order Monday, which contains several departures from the original January executive order . Notably, Iraqi citizens are no longer ineligible to receive new visas. The order also sets out classes...

Bahrain's Shura Council , the upper house of parliament, on Sunday approved a change in the nation's constitution that will allow military trials for civilians accused of being involved in terrorism plots. Critics are...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Monday in Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado that a juror's racial bias creates an exception to the no-impeachment rule that limits the second-guessing of jury verdicts. The rule is designed...

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower court ruling in a case concerning transgender restroom policies following a move by the Trump administration to rescind guidelines that school districts should allow students to...