Contempt is a tool that trial judges use to protect the integrity of the court. Beyond that, contempt has two distinct purposes: punishment and prevention, says Cheryl Howell, a professor of public ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

After former Trump administration official, Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison and fined $6,500 in a Washington, D.C. courtroom, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder began ...

A federal judge said Wednesday that he plans to “promptly” move ahead with an effort to find out which Trump administration officials were responsible for flouting his orders in a high-stakes ...

Judge James E. Boasberg had threatened to open contempt proceedings to determine whether the Trump administration had violated his order not to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador. By Alan Feuer ...

Senior Lecturer in Law, Department of Law / Centre for Crime, Justice and Security, University of Staffordshire The UK home secretary, Suella Braverman, is the most recent government minister to be ...

Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday the Trump administration likely committed criminal contempt by flying migrants to El Salvador despite a court order forbidding it, raising questions about what ...

WASHINGTON — The last time Steve Bannon was a free man, Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Early Tuesday, Bannon, the right-wing podcast host and former Donald Trump ...

Contempt has been fairly extensively researched as an emotion. Psychologist Paul Ekman defined it as a basic emotion along with joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. He took these seven ...

Contempt of court is like life on Mars. The search for it falls into two general categories: direct and indirect. Direct contempt is when its beady little eyes stare a judge right in the face and ...