(Headline USA) A federal judge on Thursday appointed a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter in the criminal investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon empowered the newly named special master, Raymond Dearie, to...
(Headline USA) A Montana judge on Thursday blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate.
District Court Judge Michael Moses chided attorneys for the state during a hearing in Billings for circumventing his April order that temporarily...
(Headline USA) A North Carolina charter school is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider an appeals court ruling that the school violated female students’ constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts.
In June, a majority of the full U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the dress...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden has nominated a Miami litigator and longtime government lawyer to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the office currently involved in the Justice Department's investigation of classified records at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
Markenzy Lapointe would replace Juan Antonio...
(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) The Supreme Court will hear a case, Lowery v. Texas A&M University System, that will test whether affirmative action and anti-white discrimination violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Title IX of civil rights law.
Professor Richard Lowery, who teaches finances at the University of Texas...
(Headline USA) A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home.
The newly unredacted details, released by Judge Bruce Reinhart, appeared to show that, prior to the Aug. 8 raid, agents had obtained a...
(Victor Skinner, The Center Square) Democrat justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court outvoted their Republican colleagues to expedite oral arguments for October in a lawsuit challenging the state's photo voter identification law.
The state's highest court split along party lines 4--3 to issue an order on Sept. 9 calling...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a filing earlier this week, the Department of Justice indicated that it would accept Donald Trump's proposed candidate for special master to oversee a review of the documents confiscated by the intelligence industrial complex in the recent FBI Mar-a-Lago raid.
The Trump legal team nominated...
(Headline USA) The chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court said Monday she will step down by the end of 2022, an announcement that followed a major decision affecting abortion and more than two years of steering the state's judiciary through the COVID-19 pandemic.
It also comes as the state's...
(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, the student government at the University of Florida considered a bill that would have allocated $1.5 million to defray out-of-state abortion costs for students.
The funds would have reimbursed students who wanted to travel to states...
(Headline USA) After decades of leftist policies and woke government programs have turned Los Angeles into a fetid swamp of homeless camps, Los Angeles County leaders announced Monday a lawsuit settlement agreement that commits hundreds of millions of dollars to expand outreach and supportive services for homeless residents, marking the...
(Headline USA) Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since...