President Trump's administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge ordered on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said the cuts ...

In the wake of pressure from officials as well as legal and advocacy groups, Chief Judge Timothy Evans has enacted a general order prohibiting warrantless arrests by immigration agents in or around ...

A federal judge in Oregon on Wednesday extended an emergency order blocking President Donald Trump from immediately deploying some 200 National Guard troops into Portland, delivering a blow, if only ...

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WSJ national political reporter Ken Thomas explains the confusion around the first round of federal layoffs and why another round may be coming. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the government shutdown, which has now ...

A South Milwaukee judge has resigned after being charged with falsely certifying her nomination papers. Prosecutors allege Municipal Judge Kelly Martyka was primarily living in Racine, not South ...

A federal judge has ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota judge has upheld the state's ban on gender-affirming care for children, in a blow to families who have had to travel out of state to obtain the medical treatments they ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guardsmen in Chicago was temporarily blocked Thursday, according to multiple outlets, with a district judge finding “no credible evidence” of a ...

Personnel walk inside an immigration processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Thursday. (Laura Bargfeld/AP) A judge blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for two ...

Judge Deborah Boardman’s lenient sentencing of Nicholas Roske—the man who plotted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—represents not merely poor judgment but a fundamental breach of judicial ...