Judges heard nearly four hours of arguments over whether former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had the authority to unwind ...

If the Pentagon were ever to get courts’ leeway to withdraw a pledge not to seek the death penalty, the United States says, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

The decision was a blow to prosecutors pursuing the longest-running death-penalty case in the military commission system.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...

In a highly unusual legal move, the Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to stop alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad from pleading guilty this Friday at Guantánamo-- even ...

In a highly unusual legal move, the Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to stop alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad from pleading guilty this Friday at Guantánamo-- even ...

President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing will take place Friday in Manhattan as scheduled, as the Supreme Court rejected his ... and two New York appeals courts all refused to stop ...

Trump tries to gut government as federal funding freeze blocked; Musk to ‘go get’ stranded astronauts: Live - More than two ...

Vladeck and other attorneys said the 9/11 case is likely to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, the next step after a federal appeals court ruling. That could cause the case to drag on for years ...