Trump nominated Matthew Spencer Petersen to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in September. Petersen is currently a member of the Federal Election Commission. During his ...

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., left a Biden judicial nominee speechless during her confirmation hearing Wednesday after he quizzed her on basic constitutional law theory. Judge Ana de Alba, who currently ...

A judge is the final arbiter in a courtroom. In some cases, a judge can even override a jury verdict if he or she feels there was insufficient evidence to support the ...

Biden judicial nominee appears incapable of defining basic legal terms used regularly by judges A nominee for a district judgeship in Oklahoma struggled during her nomination hearing on Wednesday ...

A Biden judicial nominee couldn’t answer a basic legal question during his confirmation hearing Wednesday, making him the second nominee to the federal courts stumped by GOP questioning this year.