Can a citizen use force to prevent a law enforcement officer from entering their home if the person does not believe the ...

By the end of his term in 1980, President Jimmy Carter had appointed more women and people of color to the federal bench than ...

Businesses claim a voter-approved cap on the number of cruise passengers that can visit the town near Acadia National Park is ...

Breyer, as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1990 to 1994, was involved in the design of ...

The First Circuit can’t seem to decide if sightseers have a constitutional right to travel to places where they’re unwanted.

Retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer began a two-day stint as a visiting judge on the federal appeals ...

One major case he will hear is arguments for the appeal of Alan Howell Parrot of Maine, who was sentenced and fined in ...

President Jimmy Carter appointed more judges to the federal bench than any other president has done in a single term.

Roosevelt expanded government to help the nation climb out of the Great Depression. But he also recognized that too much ...

Readers grapple with a recent Ideas piece that examined how the First Amendment has fostered, and protected, more "reckless" speech than "fearless" speech.