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Connecticut has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has ass...
Kim Keon Hee, wife of ousted and imprisoned South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for accepting luxury gifts in exchange for political favors — a verdict ...
A suspended attorney license in Pennsylvania is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path t...
A suspended attorney license in Pennsylvania is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path t...
Colorado has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assemb...
Frank Carone, former chief of staff to ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams, was arrested by the FBI on June 24, 2026, charged with accepting $120,000 in bribes to steer a multimillion-dollar emergency m...
A suspended attorney license in Illinois is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to re...
California has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has asse...
A jury found former Republican congressman David Rivera guilty of secretly lobbying the U.S. government on behalf of Venezuela's socialist Nicolás Maduro — the same government Rivera had publicly deno...
A suspended attorney license in New York is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to re...
Arkansas has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assemb...
Thirty-five former federal judges—including Republican appointees—have accused the Trump administration of engineering a collusive lawsuit against its own IRS to extract billions in personal benefits ...
A suspended attorney license in Florida is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to rei...
Arizona has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assembl...
In the span of a single week in June 2026, federal judges in Georgia, Idaho, and Michigan each faced separate misconduct allegations — sex in chambers and lying to investigators, a parking lot assault...
A suspended attorney license in Texas is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to reins...
Alaska has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assemble...
After more than a year of cross-examination, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's testimony in his landmark corruption trial concluded this week — not with quiet legal formality, but with an ex...
A suspended attorney license in California is not the end of your career. Here is exactly what to do in the next 72 hours, how to appeal, what you can legally do while suspended, and the real path to ...
Alabama has no official ranking of its worst judges. But its courts leave a paper trail — appellate reversals, judicial commission discipline, investigative journalism. The Ethics Reporter has assembl...
A bombshell Reuters investigation reveals that 96 percent of Trump’s second-term pardons bypassed longstanding Justice Department guidelines—and a disturbing pattern of million-dollar lobbying fees, c...
Federal prosecutors in Chicago tried three times to indict six Democratic elected officials and activists who protested outside an ICE facility — dismissing grand jurors who refused to play along, vou...
Across America, a specific and devastating form of attorney misconduct goes largely unpunished: lawyers who accept retainers to file appeals, spend years stringing clients along with false assurances,...
A June 2026 Reuters investigation found that 96% of President Trump's second-term clemency grants bypassed longstanding Justice Department guidelines — a dramatic departure from every modern presidenc...
Dan Berulis filed a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE had breached the NLRB's systems — and nearly paid for it with his life. A chilling new lawsuit reveals what happened in the hours after Elon M...
U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross of Georgia received only a quiet 'private reprimand' after investigators confirmed she had sex with a high-ranking police officer inside her judicial chambers — within...
John M. Skinner served as a non-attorney town court justice in Columbia, Herkimer County, for 16 years. He was formally censured in 2018. He continued the same conduct. In February 2026, the NYS Commi...
Courtny Osterling was admitted to the bar in 2011. David Chandler was admitted in 2014. Both are Chief Counsels of Second Department grievance committees — the offices that police attorney misconduct ...
On November 15, 2024, Syracuse City Court Judge K. Felicia Pitts-Davis asked her clerk whether any upcoming weddings involved a same-sex couple — then refused to officiate one, citing religious belief...
In May 2024, Canandaigua Town Court Justice Walter W. Jones used a racial slur repeatedly in a courthouse parking lot while telling a story to colleagues, then five days later accused a Black defendan...