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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee for a Philadelphia-based appeals court won Senate confirmation Tuesday, despite opposition from the two senators representing his home state of New Jersey. The Senate voted 54-45 to approve Paul Matey to the 3rd U.S. ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Brett Kavanaugh on a high-profile appeals court. Senators voted 53-46 to confirm White House official Neomi Rao for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for ...

MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers distrustful of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul’s willingness to defend abortion restrictions in state law want to intervene and hire their own attorneys at taxpayer expense to represent the Legislature in a lawsuit filed by ...

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court in New Orleans heard arguments Wednesday on a 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving Native American children. A federal district judge in Texas last ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration will try to persuade a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to block California laws aimed at protecting immigrants, seeking a win in one of numerous lawsuits between the White House and the Democratic-dominated state. ...

ATLANTA — A civil liberties group is demanding that police on the Georgia Capitol grounds allow demonstrators to wear Planned Parenthood buttons that include profanity. In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union says two women who ...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the Trump Organization broke a promise to pay his legal bills and owes at least $1.9 million to cover the cost of his defense. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Senate has confirmed a 37-year-old lawyer as a judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals despite opposition from civil rights and LGBTQ groups. Allison Jones Rushing was nominated by President Donald Trump in ...

SAN ANTONIO — A Texas judge has received a public warning after asking a jury to keep deliberating over a defendant they convicted because God told him she was innocent. The San Antonio Express-News reports that Comal County Judge Jack ...

MADISON, Wis. — A group founded by former Democratic U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that it is spending $350,000 to help liberal-backed candidate Lisa Neubauer get elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and ...