(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In what has been called an “unprecedented leak” from the U.S. Supreme Court, one which has the potential to conveniently roil a leftist lethargy heading into the midterms under a mightily unpopular president, a draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that surfaced Monday seems to...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) President Joe Biden was among those who weighed in on a Politico rumor concerning a leaked draft of the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health that would completely overturn the controversial Roe v. Wade decision.
My statement on the reported Supreme Court decision draft....
(Headline USA) A federal jury on Monday convicted a New York Police Department veteran of assaulting an officer during the U.S. Capitol protests, rejecting his claim that he was defending himself when he tackled the officer and grabbed his gas mask, after being punched by the officer.
Thomas Webster, a 20-year...
(Headline USA) A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that in Shurtleff v. City of Boston that the Massachusetts capital violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the...
(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for murdering George Floyd, will appeal his case, the Daily Caller reported.
Chauvin's attorney filed on April 25 with the Minnesota Court of Appeals. He said that the jurors in...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump has appealed a New York judge’s decision to hold the former president in contempt of court and fine him $10,000 per day for failing to comply with a subpoena for evidence in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business dealings.
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba,...
(Associated Press) New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected new congressional maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats, largely agreeing with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
The state’s Court of Appeals said lawmakers lacked the authority to pass the congressional and state Senate...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court on Tuesday agreed to reconsider a ruling that rejected the California’s first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit private prisons and immigration detention facilities.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new hearing before an 11-judge panel, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Last October, a three-judge...
(Headline USA) Judges on New York’s left-leaning high court peppered attorneys with sharp questions Tuesday as they considered whether to throw out Democrats' new congressional district maps, which lower courts' judges ruled to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
Court of Appeals judges heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by a group of...
(The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a major immigration case, one of several key legal battles working their way through the federal judicial system as illegal immigration soars.
In Biden v. Texas, the attorneys general of Missouri and Texas sued after the Biden administration...
(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a religious liberty case involving a public high school football coach at who led a "brief, quiet prayer" at the 50-yard line after each of his games.
Coach Joseph Kennedy was placed on administrative leave by the Bremerton...
(The Center Square) A federal judge in Louisiana on Monday blocked the Biden administration from ending the enforcement of a COVID-era policy that allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to quickly deport illegal immigrants over health concerns during the pandemic.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced April...