When the government shuts down, certain limitations are placed on D.C.’s courts. Here’s a list of what to know about court operations: According to a contingency plan posted to the U.S. Department of ...

Washington's court system faces a constitutional emergency with a massive backlog of cases, leaving victims and defendants in ...

Washington — The Trump administration has touted its crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., in recent weeks, with increased arrest numbers and reduced violent crime. But the surge of resources to the ...

President Donald Trump's second-term agenda is hitting repeated roadblocks in Washington, D.C., federal court, where judges have halted major policies — fueling a growing clash over whether the ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Even though the White House has deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement officers to D.C. streets, more arrests may not mean quicker justice for victims because of ...

In the basement of D.C. Superior Court on Monday, more than 100 men and women walked in chains or appeared on a large screen being streamed from a hospital or jail in courtroom C-10 to hear the crimes ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The Trump administration's federal surge in the nation's capital is also leading to a surge in criminal cases that is overwhelming the DC court system. Legal experts consulted by ...

This piece breaks down the en banc decision in three parts. Part 1 is a primer on D.C. Home Rule—which is central to the decision. Part 2 describes the concerns posed by “SLAPPs” (an acronym for ...

On September 18, 2025, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 2C and ANC 2C Commissioner Thomas Lee’s petitions challenging the District of ...

Anthropic sued the Defense Department in March after the agency declared the artificial intelligence startup a supply chain ...