(Headline USA) A wave of activist judges, including ones in Iowa and Arizona, issued rulings to block efforts by the state legislatures and governors imposing pro-freedom bans on mask mandates in public facilities including schools.
However, Tennessee's Attorney General Herbert Slatery signaled that he was leading the legal charged to...
(Associated Press) The Biden administration on Monday renewed efforts to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation, the latest maneuver in a long-running drama over the policy's legality.
The proposed regulation attempts to satisfy concerns of a federal judge in Houston...
(Associated Press) A federal judge said Monday that John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan four decades ago, can be freed from all remaining restrictions next year if he continues to follow those rules and remains mentally stable.
U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington said...
(Headline USA) New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.
Workers in the nation's largest school system were to be required to show vaccination proof starting...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit against the state GOP this week to block Republican legislators from subpoenaing election officials for its forensic investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
Shapiro, a Democrat, asked the state’s Commonwealth Court to block state legislators’ subpoena, which requests the nonpublic personal information...
(Associated Press) The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd's death intends to appeal his conviction and sentence, saying the judge abused his discretion or erred during several key points in the case, according to documents filed Thursday.
Derek Chauvin said he intends to appeal on 14...
(John Haughey, The Center Square) Florida will appeal a federal judge’s injunction prohibiting the state from enforcing its two-year-old sanctuary cities ban.
U.S. Southern District of Florida Judge Beth Bloom Tuesday released a 110-page ruling declaring portions 2019’s Senate Bill 168 are unconstitutional and that the measure was adopted by the...
(Associated Press) Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and the New York Times over a 2018 story about his family's wealth and tax practices that was partly based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper's reporters.
Trump's lawsuit, filed in state court in New York,...
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who brandished firearms to confront a group of marauders who parade past their home in a private community last summer, now face the threat of losing their law licenses.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons pardoned the McCloskeys of all charges after a judge...
(Christen Smith, The Center Square) Pennsylvania Senate Democrats filed a legal challenge in Commonwealth Court against what they call an “overreaching” subpoena of election records containing personal information for nearly 7 million voters.
The lawsuit filed late Friday alleges Republican members of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee – including Chairman Cris...
The Texas doctor who performed 67 abortions in less than 17 hours right before the state’s pro-life law went into effect claimed that night was like “fighting a war.”
Dr. Jasbir Ahluwalia of the Whole Woman’s Health in Ft. Worth said there was an “unheard of” rush of women trying to...
(Headline USA) Left-wing judges in North Carolina struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with activist groups that rules established by the GOP-led legislature following passage of a 2018 ballot referendum were racially biased.
Two of the three trial judges declared the December 2018 law...