Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — A divided federal appeals court on Friday granted ...

A divided federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration on Friday in a case over the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act in deportation matters — but it did not fully snuff out a ...

DOJ lawyers argue the move did not violate a judge's orders. A federal judge has ordered declarations from all government officials involved in the decision to send more than 100 Venezuelan men to El ...

Days after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem provided little information about her actions in a high-stakes deportation case, a federal judge on Monday expanded his criminal contempt probe into ...