Federal Courts

Federal law requires a judge to step away from a case in which her impartiality “might reasonably be questioned.”

A judge appointed by Trump ordered the D.O.J. to stop using the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, pending review by a special master.

The judicial order, which inspired social-media videos of people gleefully unmasking on airplanes, was sudden and startlingly broad.

The states may be the plaintiffs in a new lawsuit against the President and members of his Cabinet, but Congress—what it really wants, with regard to a border wall—is at the heart of the case.

The White House staff might be in disarray, but in the less-publicized arena of judicial nominations the Administration is doing just fine.