Aroostook County, in Maine’s far north, is the largest county east of the Mississippi, a sparsely populated region of fields and forests with just two small cities and about 50 smaller towns. Police chiefs describe their jurisdictions as sleepy, with little serious crime. Even so, the county has sent a disproportionate number of adolescents in…
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Tuesday renewed his criticisms of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision recognizing the right to same-sex marriage, saying that people who oppose homosexuality risk being unfairly “labeled as bigots and treated as such.” The justice included his warning in a five-page statement explaining why the court had rejected a request…
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his annual year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary, issued on Sunday, to the positive role that artificial intelligence can play in the legal system — and the threats it poses. His report did not address the Supreme Court’s rocky year, including its adoption of an…
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, lay in repose on Monday in the court building where she served for decades, often as the ideological center, making her one of the most powerful women in America. The Supreme Court justices, former law clerks and the public gathered on a blustery morning…
When inspectors with the Justice Department’s internal watchdog appeared unannounced at a federal women’s prison in Tallahassee, Fla., in May, they expected to find serious problems endemic to other crumbling, understaffed facilities run by the Bureau of Prisons. What they encountered shocked them: Moldy bread on lunch trays, rotting vegetables, breakfast cereal and other foods…
But Mr. Welters’s math doesn’t add up: Even if Justice Thomas had made all the scheduled annual interest-only payments, that would only amount to a little over $180,000 — nearly $87,000 short of the purchase price. What’s more, the only proof of payment that Mr. Welters was able to provide to investigators was a copy…
Republicans in Wisconsin are coalescing around the prospect of impeaching a newly seated liberal justice on the state’s Supreme Court, whose victory in a costly, high-stakes election this spring swung the court in Democrats’ favor and threatened the G.O.P.’s iron grip on state politics. The push, just five weeks after Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined the…
President Biden is set to give final approval on Friday to the biggest reshaping in generations of the country’s Uniform Code of Military Justice, stripping commanders of their authority over cases of sexual assault, rape and murder to ensure prosecutions that are independent of the chain of command. By placing his signature on a far-reaching…
Ashtin Gamblin never realized how expensive it would be to survive a mass shooting. But after being shot nine times in the attack at an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs last November, the bills started piling up for Ms. Gamblin. Dozens of other survivors and families of the five people killed have found themselves in…
Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at Mar-a-Lago, part of an intensifying effort to determine whether Mr. Trump ordered boxes containing sensitive material moved out of a storage room there as the government sought to recover…