Legal battles between the Trump administration and advocates for deportees flown to prison in El Salvador have turned into conflicts between the government and the judges overseeing those cases. One ...

Trump's pardon powers could spare his officials and lawyers from potential criminal consequences. In 2017, Trump pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio under similar circumstances. A federal judge ...

Contempt is a tool that trial judges use to protect the integrity of the court. Beyond that, contempt has two distinct purposes: punishment and prevention, says Cheryl Howell, a professor of public ...

A failure to comply with a custody or visitation order, an order directing payment of maintenance and child support, a temporary restraining order, or other lawful order in a matrimonial action, as in ...

In the latest update to Donald Trump’s election interference trial, the former president was held in criminal contempt on April 30 for a series of posts on the social media site Truth Social and his ...

Cook County prosecutors intend to pursue a criminal contempt case against a former Cook County judge who has been accused in civil filings and an attorney discipline complaint of stealing hundreds of ...

The committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill attack announced it is moving forward to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena, as his game of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) All this happened as administration officials made public statements disparaging the ...