Chief Justice Argues for 'Vital Legislation' to Raise Pay for Federal Judges
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. renewed his call for a pay raise for federal judges and pledged new cooperation with the other branches of government in his year-end report on the federal judiciary.
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Some experts predicted that the Supreme Court decision on sentencing guidelines would renew a struggle between Congress and the judiciary.
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Police get the go-ahead to launch a court challenge to a decision not to backdate their pay rise.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returned for another term Monday and wasted no time getting down to business, appearing poised to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year.    But justices clashed over whether any changes they make would create greater inequity in the federal system...
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Chicago Tribune - Ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist said in a report released Saturday that judges must be protected from political threats, including from conservative Republicans who maintain that "judicial activists" should be impeached and removed from office.
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Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to fast-track efforts to boost the federal minimum wage and could seek to bring a bill directly to the House floor in January.
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As speculation continues to swirl over his future on the Supreme Court, ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist urged Americans to view the current debate over the ideological direction of the federal judiciary in historical perspective.
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The Justice Department is urging federal courts to make fundamental changes in access to electronic court files.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated pay raises for about 1,000 elected judges and district judges Thursday, adding fuel to a controversy that has roiled state politics for more than a year.
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WASHINGTON, DC - The chief justice of the US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, is in a hospital intensive care unit being treated for thyroid cancer.
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A cold-war operative asks Supreme Court to restore his pay, raising questions about court's role in intelligence matters.
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A measure now moving through Congress is âvitalâ and long overdue, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary.
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The justices begin their term Monday by reviewing judges' role in federal sentences.
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Security in America's courtrooms  would be bolstered in response to attacks on judges in recent  years under a measure approved on Wednesday by the U.S. Senate.
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Nursing representatives consider the possibility of strike action amid political calls for them to be given a pay increase.
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The federal judiciary will increasingly fail to attract the best-qualified lawyers if judges' pay doesn't improve, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Wednesday.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is back at work at the Supreme Court, though only part time.