Jeremy Bentham This quote is, to an extent, appropriate to both the common and the civil law system (known as continental law). However, there are fundamental differences between common and civil law.

After a court blocked Donald Trump’s National Guard plans in Portland, talk of invoking the Insurrection Act resurfaced. Here ...

Trust in American institutions—government, courts, and even civil society—has steadily eroded and now stands at historic lows ...

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President Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left. Over the past four weeks, he ...

Two candidates are in a race to be Berks County’s next judge. District Judge Eric Taylor was chosen to represent the Democrats and Berks County Assistant District Attorney Kathryn Lehman was selected ...

( The following is the text of the homily given by Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, for the Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5 ...

Closing his homily, Cardinal McElroy said, “As women and men of the law, you participate in the mission of God’s justice that Jesus announces in today’s Gospel. May you take up the challenge to be ...

Banning speech that is hateful or generally threatening is problematic because someone must decide what crosses the line, and ...

The Cook County Public Defender’s office, and a coalition of legal aid groups, have petitioned the chief judge to bar U.S.

To prevent fake accounts, strict evaluation and verification are necessary to prevent other people’s data from being used to create anonymous accounts.

At the Red Mass celebrated on the day before the Supreme Court's new term, Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy emphasized that ...