The Trump White House touted its surge of National Guard members to Washington, DC, last summer as the way to put more dangerous perpetrators in the nation’s capital behind bars. But in nearly a dozen ...

For years, the D.C. court system has seen a growing backlog of cases, as judicial vacancies often take years to fill.

WASHINGTON — DC Courts issued a new order this month that will expand access to legal help. The order establishes a framework that will allow trained non-lawyers to help people with their civil cases ...

On March 12, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued a landmark decision interpreting the District’s Anti-SLAPP Act, the statutory scheme directed at deterring Strategic Lawsuits Against ...

Cases related to President Donald Trump dominated the Supreme Court’s docket for the second straight term, and the stakes were high. Justices upheld birthright citizenship and ruled that Trump cannot ...

On August 11, 2025, President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C., deploying hundreds of National Guardsmen to occupy the city’s streets. Despite violent crime hitting a ...

Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s plan to combat crime in Washington, DC, with more federal force has led to a deluge of cases flooding already maxed-out courts in the city. CNN — Washington ...

7News has been digging into the history of an Airbnb guest turned accused squatter. The accused squatter, Shadija Romero, was an Airbnb guest who stopped paying in July, homeowner Rochanne Douglas ...