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Since May, Massachusetts bar advocates have refused to take new cases, leaving more than 6,000 defendants without counsel. The State Legislature raised their pay, but a deeper question remains: Can states build systems strong enough to fully uphold the Sixth Amendment?

Prosecutors typically have little difficulty securing indictments from grand juries. In Washington and Los Angeles, where President Donald Trump has surged troops and federal agents, juries have issued a string of rare rejections.

When President Trump sent the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, he violated an 1878 law prohibiting the use of military personnel for domestic law enforcement activities, a judge ruled Tuesday. 

The judge ruled Sunday after their lawyers said the youngsters were loaded onto planes in violation of laws affording protections for migrant kids. The judge, in Washington, says the children need to be taken off the planes while the legal process plays out.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against all 15 federal judges in Maryland over an order by the chief judge that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals. 

A lawsuit by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice is unprecedented in that it sues all the federal District Court judges in Maryland at once. The potentially high-stakes case concerns deportation and the Constitution’s separation of powers.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who was mistakenly deported, returned to the U.S. and then released from jail to await trial, may be deported again.

The Trump administration faces pressure to release additional files from investigations of sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s what’s known from two decades of lawsuits and what could come from efforts to reveal more.

A police officer involved in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor in 2020 got a 33-month sentence Monday. The Department of Justice’s approach to the case points to a retreat from police reform efforts. 

The court reached the end of June having issued almost twice as many emergency orders as it did merits opinions. Is this an anomaly, or the start of a new normal?