announced a process for replacing two federal judges in Ohio. When President Bill Clinton nominated Marbley in 1997 to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Marbley was only the second African American judge in the district.

A federal judge has revoked his decision to take senior status, a sort of retirement, after it became clear that President-elect Donald Trump would get to nominate his replacement.

A federal judge has set an April retrial date for Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times, even as lawyers on both sides for the first time said they hope they can settle the case.

Sarah Palin and the New York Times have explored trying to settle the former Alaska governor and Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate's closely watched defamation case against the newspaper, their lawyers said on Tuesday.