We learned in civics class that the rationale behind separation of powers in federal government is to prevent any single branch from becoming too powerful. Evidently, President-elect Donald Trump was ...

Donald Trump was sentenced Friday morning in New York for a criminal fraud conviction decided last May despite months of legal maneuvers aimed at forestalling the hearing and an unsuccessful, ...

Judge Juan Merchan has signaled his intention to sentence Trump to an " unconditional discharge " -- allowing Trump to avoid ...

The Supreme Court decided, by a scant 5–4 margin, that President Donald Trump would have to (virtually) sit through a ...

Alito-Trump Call: Justice Samuel Alito spoke with Trump shortly before the president-elect’s lawyers asked the court to block his sentencing. Gun Rights and Felons: The court has repeatedly ...

Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, after the Supreme Court deemed his sentence ...

Alito, one of six conservative justices on the nine-member Supreme Court, confirmed he took a call from Trump on Tuesday, one day before Trump's lawyers filed a petition asking the court to halt his ...

In the first test of how receptive the court may be to Trump, 4 of the court's 6 conservative members said they would have ...

The question isn’t whether Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to Donald Trump ahead of the president-elect asking the high court to block his sentencing in a criminal case. The far-right ...

Trump’s argument to cancel the sentencing hearing sprang directly ... came days after Trump spoke by phone with Justice Samuel Alito, who formed part of the six-member majority that hamstrung ...