It’s over—for now. On Friday night, U.S. District Judge James Robart blocked the entirety of Donald Trump’s de facto Muslim ban from taking effect. His extraordinary ruling, which applies ...

A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees, a decision that applies nationwide to thousands of people holding visas to ...

Robart did not say when he would issue a ruling on the motion to reduce federal oversight, which Seattle city officials and the Department of Justice proposed to the court in March.Based on his ...

Robart ruled Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, that Seattle's police department is in "full and effective compliance" with court-ordered reforms imposed on the city more than five years ago.

In a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Robart said the Seattle Police Department has made substantial progress in major issues at the heart of a decade-long federal consent decree.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's office issued a release Wednesday that said a U.S. District Court judge, James L. Robart, has announced the end of most of the federal oversight of police reforms ...