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The surprise sacking of a top US federal prosecutor who played a role in the prosecution of some of President Donald Trump's former allies has caused an "uproar" in legal circles. Attorney General Bill Barr announced on Friday that Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New Yo

The US city of Minneapolis is moving towards the abolition of its police department following weeks of protest sparked by the killing of George Floyd by one of its officers. Nine members of Minneapolis City Council have pledged to dismantle Minneapolis Police Department and introduce a new community

A lesbian judge in the USA has been disciplined for flying a rainbow flag in her courtroom. The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct ruled that Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez breached strict impartiality rules by flying the flag, Texas Lawyer reports.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will livestream its proceedings for the first time in its history as part of its move to remote hearings during the coronavirus pandemic. The court has traditionally resisted moves towards live broadcasts of its hearings, instead publishing audio recor

A controversial five-year prison sentence for a woman who tried to vote without realising she was ineligible because she was on parole has been upheld by a US appeals court. Crystal Mason, 44, from Fort Worth in Texas, said she did not realise she was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 2016 preside

Immigration judges in the US have forced officials to backtrack on an order to remove courthouse posters providing coronavirus advice in English and Spanish. The National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) issued advice to judges recommending they display posters from the Centres for Disease C

Lynching is set to become a federal hate crime in the US more than a century after the first attempt to criminalise it. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, passed by the Senate in 2018 and by the House of Representatives with an overwhelming majority yesterday, adds the offence of lynching to the US c

New bodycam footage shows the moment an officer in Florida arrested a six-year-old girl as she cried. Kaia Rolle was taken to a police vehicle with her hands fastened behind her back because she had had a tantrum at her school in Orlando.

More than 1,110 former officials at the Justice Department have called on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign. The statement, signed mostly by former career prosecutors, but also by some political appointees, said: "Mr Barr's actions in doing the President's personal bidding unfortunately speak lou

All four US federal prosecutors who worked on the case against former Trump ally Roger Stone have withdrawn amid allegations of political interference in the sentencing process. Senior Democratic Party officials have accused President Donald Trump and the Justice Department of having "deeply damaged

California has introduced a ban on the sale and manufacture of new fur products, becoming the first state in the US to do so. The new law was brought into effect at the same time as legislation barring most animals from circus performances, The Guardian reports.

A police officer who arrested and handcuffed a six-year-old black girl for misbehaving at school has been suspended pending an internal investigation, US media reports. Another child, aged eight years old, was also arrested by Orlando police officer Dennis Turner on the same day, but only the six-ye

US President Donald Trump is not allowed under the First Amendment of the US Constitution to block his critics on Twitter, judges have ruled. A court challenge was brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and seven people who had been blocked by the president's fam

A judge in Minneapolis has sentenced lawyer Paul Hansmeier to 14 years' imprisonment for a scheme which saw him upload pornographic material to file-sharing networks before threatening to sue people who downloaded them, Ars Technica reports. “It is almost incalculable how much your abuse of tr

A judge in Utah has been suspended without pay for six months after he made critical comments about President Donald Trump in court and on social media, CNN reports. According to the ruling of the Utah Supreme Court, Judge Michael Kwan's Facebook posts were "laden with blunt, and sometimes indelicat