The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that immigrants can get another shot in court if deported after their lawyers advise them to plead guilty. The top court's ruling in a case involving a South Korean...
President Donald Trump's efforts to tighten the screws on US immigration suffered a blow Thursday, when the US Supreme Court set more restrictions on the government's ability to strip naturalized...
Finally, some good news for Donald Trump: battling dismal approval ratings, the US president on Wednesday relished a Republican victory in a closely-watched congressional election in Georgia, calling...
Oil giant Chevron prevailed in a long-running legal battle over pollution in Ecuador, with the US Supreme Court blocking villagers from collecting a $8.65-billion foreign judgment against the...
The US Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear a case about possible gerrymandering in the drawing up of Congressional district boundaries, a running sore point between Republicans and...
The US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously struck down a North Carolina law that barred registered sex offenders from using social media. The suit in the nation's highest court goes back to a...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that senior officials from president George W. Bush's administration cannot be held responsible for abuses against Muslim immigrants and others held in the frantic...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday took a swipe at a federal court that upheld a block on his controversial travel ban targeting citizens from six Muslim majority nations. "Well, as predicted, the...
A US appeals court on Monday left in place a block on President Donald Trump's travel ban targeting citizens from six Muslim majority nations -- the latest in a string of judicial blows for the...
A few years ago, I had the privilege of being a part of an international conference in Accra. At one of the group sessions, the issue of lawyer advertising came up. I argued forcefully against the...
The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it would consider a sensitive case on privacy rights that will determine the extent of law enforcement access to cell phone location records. Geolocation...
The US Supreme Court on Monday limited the government's right to require forfeitures from people convicted in drug cases but who received a small fraction of profits obtained illegally. The court...
The White House has asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a travel ban on people from majority Muslim countries. The ban has been blocked by lower courts which have said that it is discriminatory....
President Donald Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to reinstate its controversial ban on travelers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a case over voting rights that is part of a long-running dispute between Republicans and Democrats. The court said it would consider an appeal from the...
Public attention on Parliament is expected to hit the roof when 275 MPs meet to debate the planned law to establish the Office of the Special Prosecutor intended to fight corruption. Parliament is...
Captain Smart and the Maid of Orleans: Aluta Continua Oh granted, Owusu Bempah is a paragon of virtue and a saint of our time! all and sundry must applaud him for establishing a correlation between...
A judge Friday threw out the life terms for a man sentenced as a teenager for his role in a deadly three-week shooting spree in 2002 that terrorized the Washington area. US District Judge Raymond...
The first time he was scheduled to die, Tommy Arthur invited his family to death row to say goodbye. He did that again and again for his next five dates with death, but each time a stay of execution...
The US Supreme Court on Monday said Republican legislators in the state of North Carolina illegally used race to draw up congressional districts that would dilute the strength of African-American...
