Maryland Public Defender advocates for childhood protection and criminal justice reform, highlighting the need for prevention and care over punishment.

On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated ruling in Trump v. United States. The court split 6-3 on partisan and ideological grounds. Federal prosecutors allege that former President ...

Canvases covered in layers of poured paint opened discussions about ethics and criminal justice Friday at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Katelyn Hancock, assistant professor of criminal ...

Washington — The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department, the judiciary's policymaking body said ...

Connecticut lawmakers ended the 2023 legislative session having passed hotly contested bills on parole eligibility, police interrogation and prosecutorial accountability. A law advanced last year ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — and she's determined not to be the last. Jackson's new memoir, "Lovely One," which will be released Tuesday, ...

The wave of recent negative publicity for the legal profession is concerning because it takes place against a backdrop where ...

A Democratic justice on North Carolina's Republican-majority Supreme Court sued an ethics panel Tuesday to block it from investigating her public comments about state courts and colleagues, saying the ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is the target of an ethics complaint after she was referred to the Department of Justice for alleged mortgage fraud. On April 15, Federal Housing Finance Agency ...