Lawmakers in the state approved the law in 2021, and it was later challenged by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

A state attorney told a judge Friday he's not against releasing some criminal defendants from jail who have been denied their constitutional rights to a lawyer, as long as public safety is taken into ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has asked Murphy to release those who have waited more than seven days for a lawyer, similar to what a judge recently ordered in Oregon. The idea still ...

Watch live as Trump continues his crackdown on illegal immigration and takes executive action on federal aid and DEI ...

U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The ...

A superior court justice will hear arguments this week about what the state can do to meet its constitutional obligation to ...

Currently, Maine Supreme Court justices hold the authority to discipline one another in cases involving ethical violations. This practice, according to Dmitry Bam, a law professor at the University of ...

Trevor Averill is charged with depraved indifference murder and manslaughter in the death of his two-month-old daughter, ...

The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President ...

Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court finds itself with a thorny dilemma on its hands at the start of the new year. For the first time ever, one of its own members, Associate Justice Catherine Connors ...