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Federal Electoral Tribunal
Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF), Mexico's specialized electoral court, successor to TRICOEL (1987) and TRIFE (1990); created 1996, final arbiter of presidential and congressional election disputes.
Federal investigation into Jerome Powell
The federal investigation into Jerome Powell was a Justice Department inquiry opened in January 2026 concerning his Senate testimony and dropped by April 2026.
Federal judges appointed by Barack Obama
Federal judges appointed by Barack Obama: two Supreme Court justices (Sotomayor, Kagan), first-term confirmation counts and rates below his four predecessors, and a blocked final two years including the unconfirmed Garland nomination.
Federal Judicial Center
Federal Judicial Center (FJC): research and education agency of the U.S. federal judicial branch, established December 20, 1967 (28 U.S.C. 620-629), chaired by the Chief Justice, with no policy-making authority.
Federal judiciary of the United States
The federal judiciary of the United States, also called the United States federal court system, is the national court system created under Article III of the Constitution.
Federal Medical Center, Carswell
Federal Medical Center, Carswell (FMC Carswell) is the Federal Bureau of Prisons' only medical center for female offenders, opened 1994 in Fort Worth, Texas, on the former Carswell Air Force Base, with in-patient dialysis and Care Level 3-4 care.
Federal pardons in the United States
Federal pardons are presidential acts of clemency under Article II, Section 2 for federal offenses except impeachment, covering pardon, amnesty, commutation, remission, and reprieve, administered through the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney.
Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board
The Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board is an independent Canadian tribunal that administers collective bargaining, grievance adjudication, and staffing complaints for the federal public service and Parliament.
Federal Reporter
The Federal Reporter (F., F.2d, F.3d, F.4th) is West's series of reporters of published U.S. federal appellate decisions, begun in 1880 in the National Reporter System and the de facto official reporter of the courts of appeals.
Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1
Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 (Altiplano, formerly La Palma) is Mexico's flagship maximum-security federal prison in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, opened 1991, capacity 836, holding cartel leaders; site of El Chapo's 2015 tunnel escape.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), independent US agency created September 26, 1914 under the FTC Act; enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws via Section 5 and the Clayton Act, with Bureaus of Consumer Protection, Competition, and Economics.
Federalisation of the European Union
Federalisation of the European Union: the process by which the EU, a treaty-based union of member states with confederal roots, takes on federal characteristics; scholars describe it as a federal union with unmatched joint decision-making but weak federal government in defense and social policy.
Federalism in India
Federalism in India: the constitutional division of power between the Union and India's 28 states, also called quasi-federal or centralized federalism. Article 1's "Union of States", Seventh Schedule lists, Article 356, Finance Commission, and debates over simultaneous elections.
Federalism in the Philippines
Federalism in the Philippines: the Duterte-era proposal to replace the unitary 1987 Constitution with a federal system of states or federated regions, via the 22-member ConCom draft of 2018, which was never ratified.
Federalism in the United States
Federalism in the United States: constitutional division of power between the federal government and the 50 states, from enumerated powers and the Tenth Amendment through dual, cooperative, and New Federalism eras, Spending Clause limits, and current Supreme Court trends.
Federalist No. 51
Federalist No. 51, "The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments," is a February 6, 1788 Publius essay, attributed to James Madison, famous for "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" and the compound republic's double security.
Federated state
A federated state is a constituent unit of a federation, such as a state or canton, whose authority the central government cannot unilaterally revoke.
Federation
Federation: a state in which constitutional law divides power between a central government and constituent units such as states, provinces, or cantons, each constitutionally protected from unilateral abolition, unlike a unitary state.
Federico A. Moreno
Federico A. Moreno, born 1952 in Caracas, Venezuela, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge in the Southern District of Florida since 1990.
Fee simple
Fee simple: the greatest property interest in land, of unlimited duration, held absolutely or in three defeasible forms (determinable, condition subsequent, executory limitation) with correlative future interests.
Fee tail
Fee tail: a common law entailed estate in land created by wording like 'to A and the heirs of his body', originating in the Statute De Donis Conditionalibus (1285). It locked inheritance to lineal descendants; barred by the common recovery and now abolished or converted to fee simple in most US states and England.
Feeder judge
Feeder judges are federal court of appeals judges from whom Supreme Court justices draw disproportionate numbers of law clerks, a small, ideologically sorted group controlling access to the Court's roughly 36 clerkships.
Feeding Our Future
Feeding Our Future was a Minnesota nonprofit and child nutrition program sponsor at the center of the largest COVID-19 relief fraud case in the United States, a $250 million scheme; founder Aimee Bock was sentenced to 500 months.
Félicien Kabuga
Félicien Kabuga, Rwandan businessman and alleged financier of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, RTLM radio founder and National Defence Fund president; indicted in 1997, arrested in France in 2020, ruled unfit for trial, died in UN custody in The Hague in 2026.
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Vienna-born American jurist and Harvard professor, was an FDR-appointed Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–1962, known for judicial restraint, founding the ACLU, and clashing with the Warren Court.
Felony
Felony: the category of serious criminal offense in U.S. law, defined as a crime punishable by more than one year imprisonment (28 CFR § 105.22). Distinguished from misdemeanors and infractions; carries grand jury indictment in federal cases and collateral consequences such as disenfranchisement, firearms bans, and deportation.
Felony murder rule
Felony murder rule: American criminal law doctrine letting participants in a felony be charged with murder for deaths during the crime, without intent to kill; limited by merger, inherent dangerousness, and Enmund and Tison death penalty rulings.
Femi Gbajabiamila
Femi Gbajabiamila (Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila, born 1962) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician, six-term House member for Surulere I, Speaker of the 9th House (2019–2023), and Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu since June 14, 2023.
Femicides in Ciudad Juárez
Femicides in Ciudad Juárez (feminicidios): killings of women in the Mexican border city documented since 1993, marked by sexual violence, impunity, and the landmark 2009 Inter-American Court Cotton Field judgment against Mexico.
Fence (criminal)
Fence (criminal): a person who knowingly buys, receives, or resells stolen property as intermediary between thieves and buyers; also called a receiver. Covers etymology from "defense," Jonathan Wild, receiver typologies, and receiving-stolen-property law in the US, England, and the Philippines.