Judge April M. Perry is a Biden appointee who has been a federal judge for less than a year. By Mitch Smith Reporting from Chicago When a lawyer from the Illinois attorney general’s office appeared in ...

A federal judge has taken the highly unusual step to order prosecutors and their supervisors into court Thursday to explain why they redacted portions of grand jury transcripts in the “Broadview Six” ...

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As local anxiety builds, Illinois officials say the deployment of Guard troops violates state sovereignty, while the White House says the troops’ presence is needed. By Mitch Smith Reporting from ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing National Guard troops in Chicago, warning that deploying U.S. military forces into volatile scenes with a surge of ...