Judiciary

Connecticut lawmakers can expect a report by October on their inquiry into whether a scandal involving state troopers faking traffic stop tickets may have skewed racial profiling data.

Proposed changes from the Rules Committee of the Connecticut Superior Court have drawn mixed reaction from lawmakers and activists. Under the new rule, defendants held for $50,000 or less would have to pay 7% to leave jail before trial.

The state Judicial Branch, the Department of Education, and the Connecticut Bar Association have partnered to deliver 50-minute lessons about democracy to fifth graders across the state.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns died Monday. Burns was Connecticut’s first female federal judge.President Jimmy Carter nominated Burns to the bench…

Judge Christopher Droney of Connecticut announced this week he’s retiring from the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, giving President Donald Trump the…

The head of a gun control advocacy group in Newtown, Connecticut, is calling on the Senate to reject Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s pick for…

U.S. Senators from Connecticut and New York are driving the Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on…

Richard Robinson, the first African-American chief justice of Connecticut, is to be sworn in Monday at a ceremony at the state Supreme Court in…

Richard Robinson has become the first African-American chief justice of Connecticut. The 60-year-old associate justice of the State Supreme Court was…

The Republican President of the Connecticut Senate broke with the majority of his caucus on Tuesday and voted with Democrats to approve several of…