On Friday, a body that advises US judges revised the document it created to help judges grapple with scientific issues. The move came after a group of Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter ...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 15: A U.S. Flag flies on the side of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) The legitimacy of our ...

(The Center Square) – Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading a 23-state letter demanding answers from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts over a climate science chapter in a ...

A US judicial body has revised an internal document to remove climate research. The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is a document used by judges when they have to oversee cases involving ...

Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has withdrawn the entirety of its content ...

More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center. By Karen Zraick More than two dozen contributors to a widely used ...

March 2 (Reuters) - A majority of the contributors to the federal judiciary's reference manual on scientific evidence accused court officials on Monday of letting partisan politics shape its latest ...

Judges are frequently confronted with cases that hinge upon scientific information that their educational backgrounds may leave them ill-equipped to manage. Because of this challenge, the Federal ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the ...