The latest defection from the crisis-stricken OPEC nation’s government comes amid growing international pressure on Maduro over his new term, which resulted from a broadly boycotted 2018 vote dismissed by countries around the world as a sham. “I’ve decided to leave Venezuela to disavow the government of Nicolas Maduro,” Zerpa said in an interview with […]

Politico reports that an unidentified firm presented an application to Chief Justice John Roberts asking for a stay of a federal appeals court ruling that turned down the company's effort to block a grand jury subpoena for records

Lower courts had blocked Trump’s executive order that denied asylum opportunities to people who jumped the border in between official entry points between the U.S. and Mexico.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has told CNN that Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been

President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday blocked Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross from

If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit doesn’t issue a decision by Oct. 31, the administration will go straight to the Supreme Court for a finding on whether an injunction against the plan should be lifted, the Justice Department said Wednesday in a letter to the appeals court. The Supreme Court in […]

Washington state's Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is

The Supreme Court rejected two last-ditch efforts to save the life of Edmund Zagorski, apparently clearing the way for his execution.

New US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh dove into his new job Tuesday, shrugging off the controversy over his nomination and firing off a handful of questions at his first hearing, a case on prison reform. A handful of protesters rallied outside the court in opposition to the conservative justice, who was confirmed on Saturday […]