Sean Philip Cotter

The Supreme Judicial Court is slated to hold oral arguments on Wednesday, in a case that has pitted legislators against lawyers, and could test the constitutional boundaries of the high court justices.

The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of using US Department of Agriculture to “unlawfully” suspend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, during the government shutdown.

The lawsuit involves allegations that the overwhelmingly male and white Mass. State Police brass routinely pass over female and minority troopers for promotion.

More than 3,300 defendants do not have legal representation in the district courts of Suffolk and Middlesex counties, including more than 50 in custody.

A survey Saturday of city politicians in deep-blue Boston hardly reveals a surprise: They broadly oppose Trump’s idea to send National Guard troops into Boston in an effort, according to the Republican president, to help fight crime.

Officers found five “assault-style” rifles and five handguns at the lieutenant's home, as well as ammunition, body armor, methamphetamine pills, and tourniquets.

With the state so reliant on private attorneys, the stoppage has effectively crippled the courts’ ability to assign lawyers to indigent defendants who are entitled to them.

In the courts, a chaotic, inconsistent approach to justice is playing out.

The department’s latest instructions cap off a week in which President Trump's attempt to ratchet up his assault on the college was temporarily thwarted by the courts.

Earlier this spring, a legislative proposal to raise rates for Massachusetts bar advocates failed to gain traction.

The Massachusetts court system could face a crisis without these lawyers because defendants have a constitutional right to counsel.

The debate over a witness's niqab has exposed tension between the constitutional right to religious expression and a defendant’s right to confront their accuser.

Groups of people who looked to be in their 20s and 30s roved the streets stopping every half block or so to check out the latest show they’d stumbled across.

The Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition closed Friday on a building it plans on turning into the city’s first Asian American community center.

The Brattle, a Cambridge institution since 1953 known for showing foreign, classic, and arthouse films, has canceled all screenings through Monday due to a “plumbing emergency,” according to a post on the theater’s website.

Former police commander Eddy Chrispin argues the city violated his First Amendment rights by demoting him after he refused to resign from a state commission aimed at police reform.

Harvard Professor Cemal Kafadar, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' head, will step down at the end of the academic year, according to a memo the school sent to staff Wednesday obtained by the Globe.

Friday is the third and final day of initial hearings for the more than two dozen men who authorities say are among the most frequent patrons of the brothel network.

President Trump continued his feud with Maine Governor Janet Mills, firing off a social media post demanding that she owes him a “full throated apology."

Defense lawyers asked that Hana Lee be sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Prosecutors asked for six years.