Despite urgent speculation in liberal legal circles and some talk among Democratic senators of potentially outright urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign, sources close to the senior liberal ...

Defense attorneys in the Michael Madigan corruption trial began their cross-examination of a key witness Tuesday by trying to ...

The highest court in the land is the state’s Supreme Court, comprised of seven justices representing five different districts ...

Former assistant U.S. attorney April M. Perry will join the federal trial bench in Chicago following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of her nomination as a federal judge.

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn is holding off on enforcing his ruling for 30 days to allow Illinois leaders time to ...

who unsuccessfully defended the race-conscious admissions policies before the Supreme Court. There are an additional 26 ...

Karen Conti, Chicago trial attorney, joins Bob Sirott to discuss what could happen next concerning President-elect Donald ...

A state judiciary that has the ability to make tough decisions that uphold civil rights requires an independence that may be ...

A federal judge has overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that ...

The Supreme Court on Friday handed a loss to Republicans by allowing Pennsylvania voters who sent mail-in ballots that were ...

John Krasinski is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2024. The magazine announced the actor-writer-director as its pick ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.