Law clerks, ethics professors and advocates of court transparency pressed Tuesday for greater disclosure and accountability about misconduct complaints against federal judges who wield tremendous power in insular courthouses throughout the country. Chief Justice John Roberts proposed revamping the disciplinary ...

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America’s federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that more closely reflects the nation’s diversity. So far, ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — When Goodwin Liu joined the seven-member California Supreme Court in 2011, he became its fourth sitting member of Asian descent. The number is remarkable. The other state supreme courts in the U.S. combined have a handful of ...

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A new guide on international commercial arbitration, written for U.S. federal judges is available online. In less than 100 pages, it offers a practical overview of a complicated area of law that has become the preferred means of resolving cross-border ...

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WASHINGTON — A council of federal judges in Washington will look into a misconduct complaint against a conservative judge who’s alleged to have made racially discriminatory comments. Judge Edith Jones of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t stop some federal judges from getting cost-of-living increases promised to them by Congress but never paid. The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal of a decision ordering the money to ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the nation teetering on an economic “fiscal cliff,” federal judges may soon force Congress to dedicate possibly millions of dollars to what some of those same judges must consider a worthy cause: their own salaries. The ...

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President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that extends for five more years 29 federal bankruptcy judgeships that were set to expire.   The Temporary Bankruptcy Judgeships Extension Act of 2012, Pub. L. No. 112-121, temporarily saves dozens ...

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In a case considering whether federal judges have the authority to impose a sentence to run consecutively with a state court sentence that hasn’t yet been imposed, the government and the defendant both urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule ...

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WASHINGTON — Most of the Republican presidential candidates want to wipe away lifetime tenure for federal judges, cut the budgets of courts that displease them or allow Congress to override Supreme Court rulings on constitutional issues.

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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the quality of federal judges has suffered because there are too many of them. Testifying before a Senate committee Wednesday, Justice Scalia blamed Congress for making federal crimes out of too many routine drug cases.

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According to the Washington, D.C.-based government watchdog organization Common Cause, Congress and the Executive Branch have done little to police the U.S. Supreme Court and the actions of its justices. Early last month, Common Cause President and CEO Bob Edgar ...

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