UPDATE:Mistrial Possible After Judge Berates Prosecutor
In their zeal to obtain a conviction, prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, already floundering badly, might have crossed a line that costs them the case.
Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder said he would take under advisement a motion for a mistrial with prejudice to...
(Headline USA) The Biden administration framed its vaccine mandate for private employers in life-and-death terms Monday in a legal filing that sought to get the requirement back on track after it was halted by a federal court.
Its filing in response to a stay issued over the weekend by the...
(Headline USA) The rioter who survived after Kyle Rittenhouse shot him on the streets of Kenosha testified that he pointed his own gun at Rittenhouse but didn't mean to and claimed he had no intention of firing it.
Gaige Grosskreutz, the third and final man shot by Rittenhouse during a...
(Headline USA) Two and a half seconds before Kyle Rittenhouse began shooting in the streets of Kenosha, someone in the crowd fired a shot into the air, a detective testified at Rittenhouse's murder trial Thursday.
The defense has said that that shot made Rittenhouse think he was under attack.
Rittenhouse, 18,...
According to Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh "openly worried" during oral arguments Monday that part of the recently passed Texas Heartbeat Act can "easily be replicated in other states ... to target gun rights, free speech rights or religious rights."
Some took it as an indication...
The Biden administration is once again trying to end former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy despite a court order requiring the government to reimplement it.
Administration officials asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week to vacate an August decision from a federal district court...
In a verdict that may lead to some semblance of sanity in the application of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a North Carolina jury has awarded $10 million to a health care executive allegedly fired to make room for "diversity and inclusion" hires.
NBC News reported that David Duvall...
(Headline USA) Students in Rhode Island are asking a federal appeals court to affirm that all public school students have a constitutional right to a civics education.
They say that they aren't taught how to meaningfully participate in a democratic and civil society and that the Jan. 6 uprising at...
More than 50 federal employees sued the Biden administration this week over its COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The Federal Practice Group, which represents dozens of federal government workers, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the mandates requiring all federal government employees to be...
(Elizabeth Troutman, The Center Square) Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked the U.S. District Court in Arizona for a temporary restraining order and nationwide preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
“The COVID-19 vaccine mandate is one of the greatest infringements upon individual liberty, federalism, and the separation...
(Headline USA) Ohio’s top lawyer filed suit against the Biden administration on Monday seeking to restore a Trump-era ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics that President Joe Biden reversed earlier this month.
The action filed by Ohio's Republican attorney general, Dave Yost, in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati...
(Headline USA) A federal judge's recent ruling to extend person-hood to animals may be another breakthrough for anti-abortion advocates who have asked the courts to confer the right to life on pre-natal infants.
The ruling comes as the US Supreme Court prepares to hear two pivotal abortion challenges from Texas...