Nancy Gertner

Early in the morning on a fall day in 2020, a Harvard student was abruptly awoken at a friend’s out-of-state home by a classmate sexually…

Aileen M. Cannon, the federal judge assigned to the Justice Department’s criminal case against former president Donald Trump, will set the pace and rules for…

An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone,” Special Counsel Jack Smith announced in…

The pattern was chillingly similar in each attack. The assailant lured women into his car in downtown Boston, authorities say, and then drove them to…

A letter by Nancy Gertner: In its May 18 editorial, “Biden and Garland should play it safe in choice to replace Rollins,” the Globe asserted…

Chatter on Capitol Hill about ethical standards at the Supreme Court has reached a fever pitch following the steady stream of revelations about Justice Clarence…

Conservatives have pointed to incidents concerning other judges, such as Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch not recusing themselves from cases involving their book publisher.

U.S. Supreme Court justices took the rare step on Tuesday of acknowledging the growing drumbeat of criticism about its ethical guidelines, but ethics experts say…

An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: In November 2018, when then-president Donald Trump challenged a federal judge’s impartiality by calling him an “Obama judge,” Supreme Court…

As Boston marks 10 years since the city’s deadliest terrorist attack, the legal battle drags on in federal court to determine the fate of the…

An unprecedented preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone signals a new…

IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet…

When the U.S. Senate confirmed Indiana federal judge Matthew P. Brookman last week, he became just the third of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks to…

The policymaking body of the federal courts recently issued revised rules requiring all judges to offer a fuller accounting of meals, trips, and gifts they…

Today on Boston Public Radio, live from the Boston Public Library: We opened the phone lines to hear from listeners about the future of automation…

Today on Boston Public Radio: We started the show with listener reactions to the U.S. military shooting down multiple unidentified objects in North American airspace.

Hon. Nancy Gertner discussed the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, reports of discord among the Supreme Court justices and questions of whether there ought…