Imprisoned former Ald. Edward M. Burke's Burnham Committee gave the money to a fund for Justice Joy V. Cunningham days after ...

Firefighters and police officers quickly responded when DuPage County resident Robert Hagestedt made a 2017 emergency call for assistance.

Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s decisions. By Adam Liptak ...

Traditionally, the Justice Department was loath to abruptly switch the federal government’s position at the Supreme Court, as the solicitor general is supposed to carry the mantle of long-term ...

Their arguments can provide the legal scaffolding for the Supreme Court’s decision, and in the closest of cases the solicitor general has been known to persuade a key justice. One example from ...

The ex-governor said he and the president were victims of 'lawfare' and didn't address rumors that he's being considered for ...

He was set up by a lot of bad people, some of the same people I had to deal with,” Trump said at the White House as he signed ...

The proposed removal of Hyde’s name would follow the removal last year of the portraits of three former Illinois Supreme Court justices, S. Louis Rathje, Robert R. Thomas and Michael Burke ...

Late Thursday the Justice Department appealed his order ... ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which held that Scott, an enslaved man, wasn’t a ...

In this sketch, D. John Sauer argues before the US Supreme Court over whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Trump has nominated ...

Brown’s case has bounced around Illinois’ judicial system for years. In 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court majority opinion didn’t make a decision on the constitutionality of the law in Brown’s case, ...