Courts & Law

President Donald Trump is widely expected to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, a 48-year-old who would be among the youngest justices to assume a high-court seat.

Police are warning Long Beach Island residents to be vigilant after the theft of a high-end vehicle and subsequent pursuits early Thursday.

The U.S. Attorney accused the Liberian-born treasurer of embezzlement and entering into a “sham” marriage to maintain residency.

There’s no hate crime charge — because queer and trans people aren’t a protected class in Pennsylvania.

Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87, also will be the first Jewish-American to lie in state and just the second Supreme Court justice.

Family and friends called for a new review into the death of Jeremy McDole, a Black man fatally shot in his wheelchair by Wilmington police five years ago.

In a case stemming from a brutal rape at a Philly school, the Pa. Supreme Court said minors deserve more time to bring discrimination lawsuits.

The police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville began with a routine search warrant gone tragically wrong. Philly is no stranger to similar tragedies.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

Biden, who ran a relatively centrist primary campaign, hasn't embraced those calls, worried they may intensify the nation's partisan split.

The outcome demonstrates the vast disconnect between widespread public expectation of justice and the limits of the law when police use deadly force.

Fears of a second COVID wave are growing. Bill could affect more than 3,000 incarcerated.

Taylor, a Black emergency medical worker, was shot multiple times by officers who entered her home using a no-knock warrant during a narcotics investigation on March 13.

The judge said the administration had failed to show “imminent and irreparable harm will occur” if the state can’t limit crowds to 25 people inside and 250 people outside.

Ginsburg shaped her career and found her voice here in New Jersey as a pioneering faculty member at Rutgers Law School in Newark from 1963 to 1972.