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Trump Org, CFO Plead Not Guilty to Concocted NY Tax Indictment

(Headline USA) The Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief each pleaded not guilty Thursday to tax avoidance charges arising from a two-year investigation into former president Donald Trump's company. It is the first criminal case --- a flimsy one --- that New York authorities' fishing expedition has yielded. According to...

SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Ariz.’s Ban on Ballot-Harvesting

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld election-integrity measures in Arizona---a decision that likely undermines the Biden Justice Department's recent efforts to harass reform-minded red states and will make it harder for power-grabbing Democrats to wage activist court challenges to the laws being enacted by other GOP legislatures. The case, Brnovich...

Supreme Court Says California Can’t Collect Charity Top Donor Names

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered California to stop collecting the names and addresses of top donors to charities. The justices voted 6-3 to side with two nonprofit groups, including one with links to billionaire Charles Koch. The dissents came from liberal justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. The...

Judge Blocks Fla. Law Aimed at Punishing Social Media

(Associated Press) A federal judge on Wednesday blocked for the time being a new Florida law that sought to punish large social media businesses like Facebook and Twitter if they remove content or ban politicians. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle granted a preliminary injunction stopping the new law from being enforced. The...

Iowa Supreme Court: State Can Block Planned Parenthood from Sex Education in Schools

(Associated Press) Iowa's high court said Wednesday that the state may refuse to allow Planned Parenthood to conduct sex education programs funded by federal grants, reversing a judge's ruling last year that found the law unconstitutional. The Iowa Supreme Court found the 2019 law passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature is constitutional,...

UPDATE: Cosby Released from Prison as Pa. Supreme Court Overturns Conviction

UPDATE 3:00 PM 6/30/2021 VIA AP: Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor's...

Kavanaugh Ignores Law; Supreme Court Leaves CDC Eviction Moratorium in Place

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court is leaving a pandemic-inspired nationwide ban on evictions in place, over the votes of four objecting conservative justices. The court on Tuesday rejected a plea by landlords to end the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium on evicting millions of tenants who aren't paying rent...

International Court Making ‘Ecocide’ a Felony to Punish Climate ‘Criminals’

Twelve legal scholars plan to make "ecocide"—a still-vague term that signifies "severe" and "widespread or long-term environmental damage"—an international crime alongside genocide and war crimes. The panel of scholars proposed a 165-word long, intentionally vague definition for ecocide, which could become the basis of a crime that the International Criminal...

SCOTUS: Asylum-Seekers Have No Right to Release While They Wait for Hearings

(Associated Press) The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face persecution or torture if they are deported to their native countries. Over the dissent of three liberal justices, the court held 6-3 that the immigrants are not entitled to a hearing...

Supreme Court: Company Can Seize State-Owned Land to Build Pipeline

(Associated Press) The Supreme Court sided Tuesday with a pipeline company in a dispute with New Jersey over land the company needs for a natural gas pipeline. Both liberal and conservative justices joined to rule 5-4 for the PennEast Pipeline Co. The 116-mile planned pipeline is to run from Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County...

Trump Org Lawyers Try to Fend Off Prosecution by Politicized NY DA

(Associated Press) Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment stemming from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company. Trump Organization lawyer Ron Fischetti told the Associated Press the meeting came as a...

Judge Dismisses Gov’t Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook

(Associated Press) A federal judge on Monday dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of state attorneys general, dealing a significant blow to attempts by regulators to rein in tech giants. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the lawsuits were “legally insufficient”...
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