The Republican attorneys general whose complaints led to the deletion of a judicial manual’s climate science chapter are asking one of the nation’s leading science bodies to yank that chapter from its ...

On Friday, a body that advises US judges revised the document it created to help judges grapple with scientific issues. The move came after a group of Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter ...

Congressional Democrats have accused a judicial education center of caving under political pressure. Congressional Democrats have urged an arm of the federal court system to restore a climate science ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the ...

After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. By Karen Zraick In a new attack on ...

More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center. By Karen Zraick More than two dozen contributors to a widely used ...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 15: A U.S. Flag flies on the side of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) The legitimacy of our ...

Judges are frequently confronted with cases that hinge upon scientific information that their educational backgrounds may leave them ill-equipped to manage. Because of this challenge, the Federal ...

A US judicial body has revised an internal document to remove climate research. The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is a document used by judges when they have to oversee cases involving ...

For over 30 years, the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence has served as a go-to document judges can use when they deal with issues involving scientific testimony. The ...