Congress created the position of attorney general in 1789 so the national government had a designated lawyer to conduct ...

As an example, the advisory cited decision-making tools used by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to select individuals to ...

What does an ideal system look like? It’s one where every prosecutor’s office has the resources to do the job effectively.

Page argued Monday that if the court affirmed the judge's ruling it "would not only upend long settled practice, but would cast a shadow over the legitimacy of currently serving ...

Attorneys for St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and Gov. Mike Parson have been in court to determine who gets to appoint ...

In Alaska, where the time to resolve most serious felony cases has nearly tripled over the past decade, one case was delayed ...

A former city official faces charges for allegedly embezzling city funds to finance personal expenses, including recording ...

A vanishingly small number of violent sex crimes end in conviction, NBC News investigation shows Less than 4% of reported rapes, sexual assaults, and child sex abuse allegations in certain cities ...

There are a lot of lingering questions about how the ban would work in practice because there’s no precedent for the US ...

The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, ...