Commentary: When judges are targeted for doing their jobs, lawyers and all of us have a responsibility to stand with them.

It's not just bluster or politics; belittling the judiciary is a crucial step toward authoritarianism — and dismantling the rule of law. Credit: Getty Images. We are witnessing attempts to undermine ...

Two highly regarded Staten Island judges, with decades of invaluable experience on the bench, and a record of enthusiastic involvement in community affairs, were forced to retire at the end of 2017.

'This is a judge who has seen a lot and heard a lot and is doing his best to kind of share what he has learned on the job,' said Prof. Leah Litman The GazetteThe Senate during the opening day of the ...

It is a dangerous time to be a judge in America. Retired Wisconsin judge John Roemer was killed at his home in June 2022. That same month, US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh narrowly avoided a ...

"The indispensable judicial requisite is intellectual humility." —Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court This past June, a majority of the Supreme Court once again treated established precedent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 1989, Robert Vance was with his wife in the kitchen of their Alabama home. As he opened a nondescript package ...