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Apple CEO Denies App Store’s Monopoly Control in District Court Testimony

(Headline USA) Apple CEO Tim Cook described the company's ironclad control over its mobile app store as the best way to serve and protect iPhone users, but he faced tough questions about competition issues from a judge Friday about allegations he oversees an illegal monopoly. The rare courtroom appearance by...

New York AG Sends Two Lawyers to Help Manhattan DA with Trump ‘Witch Hunt’

(Headline USA) New York's attorney general said Friday that she's assigned two lawyers to work with the Manhattan district's attorney's office on a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's business dealings. Attorney General Letitia James said her office is working alongside and cooperating with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance...

Ga. Judge Agrees to Unseal Fulton Co. Absentee Ballots for Audit

(Headline USA) A judge on Friday agreed to unseal absentee ballots to allow for an audit of November election results in Georgia's most populous county. Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero said the specifics of the audit of more than 145,000 absentee ballots from Fulton County would be outlined in...

WHITE HOUSE: Biden Committed to ‘Codifying’ Roe v. Wade Regardless of Supreme Court Decision

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that President Joe Biden is committed to "codifying" Roe v. Wade regardless of how the Supreme Court rules in an upcoming case over a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Psaki declined to comment on the Supreme Court’s...

Supreme Court Blocks Police Gun Grabbers from Entering Homes w/out a Warrant

The Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Biden administration's attempt to extinguish the Fourth Amendment by allowing law enforcement to enter private houses and confiscate firearms without the homeowner's consent or a warrant, Forbes reported. In a 9-0 decision, conservatives and progressives alike found that the Fourth Amendment does not include...

Supreme Court to Consider Major Abortion Case Regarding Fetal Viability

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions when a fetus is viable to survive outside the womb. The court’s order sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall, with a presumably more...

Judge Dismisses NRA Bankruptcy Case in Blow to Gun Group

(Associated Press) A federal judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case Tuesday, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business. The judge was tasked with deciding whether the NRA should be allowed...

APPEALS COURT: Convicted Ex-Congresswoman Deserves New Trial

(Associated Press) A federal appeals court ordered a new trial on Thursday for former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, once a powerful Florida Democrat. She had served just over two years of a five-year sentence for fraud and other crimes related to a purported charity for poor students that prosecutors said she...

Judge Strikes Down CDC’s Power Grab Against Nation’s Landlords

(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) Did you know that unelected bureaucrats at the Centers for Disease Control have the power to unilaterally commandeer rental properties nationwide? Or, at least, they did until yesterday—when a federal judge ruled that the CDC’s so-called “eviction moratorium” is illegal. (The judge has temporarily stayed...

JUDGE: CDC Exceeded Authority in Imposing Eviction Moratorium

(Headline USA) A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority when it imposed a federal eviction moratorium. “The question for the Court is a narrow one: Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide...

Chauvin’s Lawyer Seeks New Trial, Hearing to Impeach Verdict

(Associated Press) The defense attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd has requested a new trial, saying the court abused its discretion, and he wants a hearing to have the verdict impeached because of what he says is jury misconduct, according to a court document...

Obama Judge Orders Release of DOJ Memo Saying Trump Didn’t Obstruct Mueller

(Headline USA) A federal judge has ordered the release of a legal memorandum the Trump-era Justice Department prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr before he announced his conclusion that then-President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice during special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of the Russia-collusion hoax. The Justice Department had...
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