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Arresting judges. Threatening their impeachment. Routinely slamming them on social media and trying to go around them completely.

President Donald Trump and his allies have led an intense pressure campaign on the judiciary four months into his administration. Both sides of the political spectrum are using the term constitutional crisis.

“It’s an all-out war on the lower courts,” said former federal Judge John Jones III, who was appointed by President George W. Bush.

Oklahoma's public school history teachers will soon be required to teach the disproved conspiracy theory that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election from President Donald Trump.

The Republican-led state's new high school history curriculum says students must learn how to dissect the results of the 2020 election, including learning about alleged mail-in voter fraud, "an unforeseen record number of voters" and "security risks of mail-in balloting."

Pennsylvania doesn’t pay jurors enough to cover the cost of even one proper meal while they’re performing civic service, state Rep. Jason Dawkins says. 

The Philadelphia Democrat argues that it's time to increase the commonwealth’s $9-per-day juror compensation rate — and not by a little. In a recent legislative proposal, Dawkins is calling for more-than quadrupling the rate to $40 per day. 

“Jury service is one of the most important duties in our democratic system,” he wrote in a memo to colleagues. “Jurors deserve to be well compensated for their service.”

WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school, a major loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life.

The court split 4-4 over whether to allow St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School, leaving in place the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision that a religious charter school would violate the Constitution’s clause aimed at keeping religion separate from government.

Much has been written about the Great Wealth Transfer, a historic passing of assets from the oldest Americans to younger generations over the next two decades. 

But the kids may have to wait.  

Between 2024 and 2048, an estimated $54 trillion will pass from one spouse to another, rather than to children or grandchildren, in a wave of “horizontal” transfers that follow the death of a husband or wife.    

And more than 95% of that wealth will go to women.