An attorney-turned-toy maker, an attorney general seeks re-election, a judge loses her seat and Ben Crump takes up a saint's case.

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Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump for his description of a judge who ruled against Trump's migrant asylum policy as an "Obama judge."

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Damage from Kavanaugh's confirmation fight leads news items including ethnic profiling, judicial insensitivity and new DNA in a decades-old Texas killing.

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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he would have shaken the hand of a school shooting victim's father during a break in last week's Senate hearing had he recognized him before being whisked away by security detail.

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Brett Kavanaugh emailed his White House colleagues in June 2003 with an alert: The U.S. Supreme Court was about to release opinions on the University of Michigan's use of race as a factor to admit students.

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Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein has told associates he has no plans to leave his job when President-elect Donald J. Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20.

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WASHINGTON — The son of a disgraced former aide to President George W. Bush told police in Maryland that he killed a man with a hatchet in a dispute over drug sales, according to documents charging him with first-degree murder. ...

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Richard E. Hug, 78, a businessman and prolific fundraiser who raised money for and advised Republican political candidates ranging from former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehlrich Jr. to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, died Saturday.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is trying to change the face of a federal judiciary that has a long tradition of white men passing judgment on parties from all walks of life — if he can get his nominees past ...

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SEATTLE — The Obama administration said Friday that two more states, Washington and Wisconsin, will be exempted from many requirements of the federal “No Child Left Behind” education law. The decision brings to 26 the number of states granted waivers ...

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