WASHINGTON – After three years in office, President Donald Trump has remade the federal judiciary, ensuring a conservative tilt for decades and cementing his legacy no matter the outcome of November’s election. Trump nominees make up 1 in 4 U.S. ...

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The group tasked by Chief Justice John Roberts with examining harassment in the federal judiciary found inappropriate conduct, while not pervasive, is also “not limited to a few isolated instances” and recommended sweeping changes to help ferret out wrongdoing, according ...

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Dealing with another legal blow that blocked another executive order this week, President Donald Trump did something familiar. He attacked the judiciary. Again. And ever so aggressively. A White House statement Tuesday about a federal district judge’s ruling on Trump’s ...

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Five judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit implicitly took President Donald Trump to task for his disparaging comments on judges and the judiciary. The response, the strongest-to-date from sitting judges, came in a dissenting opinion ...

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It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump initiated a Twitter attack Saturday on federal judge James Robart for freezing the executive order on immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. The ultimate fate of the order will depend on proceedings in the ...

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WASHINGTON — The federal courts in general and the Supreme Court in particular were a focal point of the contentious 2016 election campaign, but Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. continued to steer well clear of controversy in his year-end report ...

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Donald Trump is set to inherit an uncommon number of vacancies in the federal courts in addition to the open Supreme Court seat, giving the president-elect a monumental opportunity to reshape the judiciary after taking office. The estimated 103 judicial ...

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A new “Court Shorts” video, focusing on the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, has been released by the federal judiciary, expanding a series of short video and audio podcasts that teach young people about the Constitution, courts and individual rights. ...

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Vacancies in the federal judiciary, including 37 emergencies, remain throughout the country as Congress continues to debate filling seats on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Witnesses had different answers Tuesday during a House Judiciary ...

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The federal judiciary will remain open for business through Oct. 17, according to a release from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. When no funding mechanism was in place Oct. 1, the beginning of a new fiscal year, the ...

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In the event of a government shutdown Tuesday, the federal judiciary will remain open for business for approximately 10 business days. On or around Oct. 15, the judiciary will reassess its situation and provide further guidance. All proceedings and deadlines remain ...

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The federal judiciary is appealing to President Obama for the funding necessary in fiscal 2014 to perform its essential constitutional functions. Without it, the federal courts face additional reductions in staff and services that will severely affect individuals and businesses ...

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