U.S. Government

Where the Executive and Legislative branches are elected by the people, members of the Judicial Branch are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

Learn more about the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.

A legal justice system primer from the Offices of the United States Attorneys.

Maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary. The purpose of this site is to provide information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.

Find a national federal court form. National court forms can be used in all federal courts. Each federal court maintains their own local court forms. Use the Court Locator to find a federal court and their local court forms.

The federal rules of practice and procedure govern litigation in the federal courts. This site provides access to the federal rules and forms in effect, information on the rulemaking process (including proposed and pending rules amendments), and historical and archival records.

This section of uscourts.gov provides statistical data and analysis on the business of the federal Judiciary. Specific publications address the work of the appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts; the probation and pretrial services systems; and other components of the U.S. courts.

Supreme Court opinions via Cornell University Law School’s Legal Information Institute. Opinions since 1990 plus hundreds of historic decisions. Includes indexing by party name, subject, and opinion author.

The current and official copy of the United States Justice Manual. (previously known as the United States Attorney's Manual)

Government Publishing Office (GPO) via Core documents of our democracy [electronic resource].

The National Archives' Charters of Freedom collection

The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. The Statutes at Large is prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) .. govinfo.gov holdings: United States Statutes at Large, 1951 (Vol. 65, 82nd Congress) to Present

The United States Code is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects into 53 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Code was first published in 1926. The next main edition was published in 1934, and subsequent main editions have been published every six years since 1934. In between editions, annual cumulative supplements are published in order to present the most current information.

Online access to the permanent edition of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. (1991) Volume 502 -