Rape victims in Colorado wait 558 days on average for their forensic evidence kits to be processed due ... She's been losing sleep over Colorado's backlog, as well. Authorities ultimately only ...

New Orleans and Louisiana officials say they've reduced backlog of rape and sexual assault test kits, in addition to DNA test ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said on Wednesday it’s not right to try to impeach judges if you don’t like their decisions. "For more than two centuries, it has been established ...

The Justice Department revoked funding for the Maine Department of Corrections over the state’s placement of a transgender woman in a women’s prison, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday.

When is a paperweight a firearm? When the U.S. Supreme Court overrules sensible lower court decisions so the federal ...

Scott MacFarlane is CBS News' Justice correspondent. He has covered Washington for two decades, earning 20 Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards. His reporting has resulted directly in the passage of ...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice on Saturday placed on leave one of its top immigration lawyers one day after he questioned in court the Trump administration's handling of the deportation ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday sent armed U.S. Marshals to deliver a letter warning a fired career pardon attorney about testifying to Congress, calling them off only ...

A California nut admitted Tuesday to trying to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — showing up to the conservative jurist’s home with a knife, zip ties, a Glock and hammer. Nicholas ...

By Glenn Thrush Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Tyler Pager Reporting from Washington President Trump’s triumphal entry into Justice Department headquarters on Friday darkened into an acid recitation of ...

The chief justice rarely issues public statements. This one was reminiscent of another in 2018 defending judicial independence after the president criticized a different judge’s ruling.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The next chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will come from the liberal majority of justices, as the court announced Thursday that the conservative who currently ...