Former U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-W.Va) and Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) recently proposed an amendment limiting ...

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A year of widening political divisions ended with the sobering news that confidence in the nation’s judicial system has also taken a hit, dropping to a record low 35 percent, ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 2 The Washington Post on raises for Congress As a new Congress is sworn in Friday, this might seem like a bad time to talk ...

A new Gallup poll shows Americans have about as much confidence in our legal system as people living in democracy-challenged nations like Syria, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Judicial Conference rejected Democrats' bid to refer Thomas to the Justice Department, citing his amended disclosures and limits on its authority over the high court.

The Judicial Conference decides against referring the Supreme Court’s longest-serving justice for investigation by the ...

A judicial policymaking body on Thursday rejected a request by Democratic lawmakers to refer conservative U.S. Supreme Court ...

"As you know, the Judicial Conference does not superintend the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States," the ...

The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the ...

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson will not face further legal action over claims they flouted ...