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A high-stakes partisan row quickly broke out Thursday regarding a confidential FBI report about allegations that Brett Kavanaugh sexually abused women three decades ago, with Republicans claiming investigators found “no hint of misconduct” and Democrats accusing the White House of ...

To some, Brett Kavanaugh is clearing his name. To others, he’s veering into conspiracy theory. In blaming “revenge on behalf of the Clintons” for the sexual misconduct allegations against him, however, the Supreme Court nominee draws new attention to his ...

West Virginia senators voted Tuesday to allow Supreme Court Justice Beth Walker to remain in office following a two-day impeachment trial. The vote was 32-1 with one senator absent. A two-thirds majority was required to remove Walker, whose 12-year term ...

The FBI has finished interviewing a friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was said to have attended a high school gathering in the early 1980s where a woman says she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh, the man’s lawyer ...

It’s not just the U.S. Supreme Court. The bitterly partisan fight regarding President Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s highest court, and the questions it has raised about the judiciary’s independence, mirror what voters are seeing in state supreme court ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd’s attorney disciplinary case. The decision marks the end of Zahnd’s options to appeal the Missouri Supreme Court’s May order reprimanding him for his conduct while ...

It’s the storm before the calm at the Supreme Court. Americans watched Thursday’s high-court nomination hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh with rapt attention. The televised spectacle was filled with disturbing allegations of sexual assault and Kavanaugh’s angry, emotional denial. On ...

Two Kansas City-area law firms that span the Missouri-Kansas border have announced they plan to merge, effective Sept. 30. Rouse Frets Gentile Rhodes LLC and White Goss announced the merger Friday in a press release. The combined firm’s new name ...

Emotionally battling to rescue his Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday denied allegations that he’d sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when both were high school students, just hours after Ford gave her own testimony. Sometimes showing anger, other times ...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses must pay $35 million to a woman who says the church’s national organization ordered Montana clergy members not to report her sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a congregation member, a jury ruled in ...

On Thursday morning, a psychology professor from California is expected to sit before lawmakers to accuse a Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault — while all of Washington, and much of the nation, watches it live. It’s a high-stakes, high-drama ...