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Judges have blocked the deportation of a Romanian criminal convicted of a string of offences including burglary, robbery, and possession of a knife, citing European Union law.

Chief Justice John Roberts and the media have been elected by no one and yet hey keep telling President Trump to shut up.

Poland’s deputy prime minister has warned that the European Union (EU) risks heading down the path towards “auto-destruction” if it undermines Polish sovereignty by trying to block domestic reforms aimed at increasing the accountability of Polish judges.

A Muslim activist who beat a police officer with a stick while protesting a Tommy Robinson rally has walked free from court.

A teenage ‘refugee’ who strangled a young woman and sexually assaulted her has been spared prison, and even exempted from a “vigorous and intensive” sex offender treatment programme due to his poor English.

Monday may have been a turning point in the global battle between the forces of nationalism and national self-determination on the one hand, and the forces pushing for a post-nationalist world with open borders on the other.

Official new guidance on “equal treatment” instructs judges to favour non-white defendants in order to “redress inequality”.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) argued that the press and the judiciary will be the heroes of the special counsel’s and Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into Russia and that the press and judiciary have

Reports suggest Abdelbaki Es Satty, the imam thought to have acted as the Barcelona terror attack’s mastermind, should have been deported from Spain in 2014 after completing a prison sentence — but judges accepted this would breach his human rights.

A senior Polish government spokesman has accused the protesters blocking streets in Warsaw Thursday night and Friday of not respecting democracy, remarking the Law and Justice (PiS) government was elected with a mandate to enact the very reforms being protested.

Tax avoidance lawyer Jolyon Maugham has abandoned his attempt to have the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declare that Britain’s exit from the EU can be stopped despite the activation of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit refused Thursday to overturn fully a lower court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s new executive order suspending travel from several terror-prone countries.

Sessions was right: on immigration issues, Hawaii is an island in every sense, with different challenges than the rest of the United States.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Wednesday that Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, had called the president’s criticisms of judges “demoralizing” and “dehumanizing” in a private meeting.

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz wrote Saturday that President Donald Trump had respected the independence of the judiciary by appealing, rather than ignoring, a federal judge’s injunction against his executive order on immigration.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has clashed with the country’s powerful and conservative judiciary, in a rare public row as tensions rise ahead of this year’s presidential election.

An Egyptian judge who tried former president Mohamed Mursi in 2015 survived an assassination attempt on Friday when a parked car exploded as his vehicle drove by, the interior ministry said.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump demanded that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg resign on Wednesday morning, after she criticized him in harsh terms several times over the past several days.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump reassured many doubting conservatives when he released his list of possible Supreme Court nominations earlier this month. But his latest attack on Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel — the federal judge presiding in the Trump University case — raise doubts about his commitment to judicial independence.

As a candidate for President of the United States, Barack Obama promised to restore balance to the Constitution, after what many argued was a period of executive overreach, infringing on civil liberties and the balance of powers. When he launched his campaign, he even referred to his past career as a “civil rights lawyer,” and a constitutional law teacher. Once in office, however, Obama expanded executive powers even further, and led a 6-year assault on judicial independence.