Justice Karen Lin Becomes First Asian American Woman Appointed to Appellate Bench in New York

Justice Lin’s appointment marks a historic first for Asian Americans in New York, who remain underrepresented in the judiciary relative to their share of the population, according to the Unified Court ...

Justice Thomas Bemoans Incivility as Security Prompts Cancellation of In-Person Speech

The justice participated remotely in a closed-door session of a legal conference, a reminder of the heightened threats facing ...

Justice Department fires U.S. attorney in New York hours after judges picked him for the job

A panel of judges in New York appointed a new top federal prosecutor in Albany after a Trump nominee was found to be serving unlawfully — but within hours, the Justice Department said it had fired the ...
New York Post

DOJ unearths 1 million more possible Jeffrey Epstein files from the Southern District of New York

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Wednesday that more than 1 million more files “potentially related to” late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been found by the Manhattan US attorney’s office — ...
The Baltimore Sun

Justice Department again fails to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, AP sources say

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A grand jury declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday in another major blow to the Justice Department’s efforts to ...

Trump’s Justice Department Sues New Jersey Governor Over ICE Enforcement

The lawsuit is the latest federal challenge to policies enacted in Democrat-led states. Similar suits have targeted laws in ...
City & State New York

Opinion: The real crisis in youth justice is underfunding

For more than a decade, New York has been a national leader in youth justice reform. The Close to Home program and Raise the Age law transformed the state’s approach by keeping young people connected ...