A grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who went viral after confronting a mob of protesters trespassing on their property, on charges of exhibiting guns and tampering with evidence, according to KMOV-4.
The grand jury accused the couple of tampering with Patricia McCloskey’s gun, which...
(Headline USA) A U.S. judge said the IRS can't keep withholding coronavirus relief payments from incarcerated people, potentially clearing the way for at least 80,000 checks totaling more than $100 million to be sent to people behind bars across the United States.
The ruling late last month from U.S. District Judge...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts “despises Donald Trump,” and therefore deliberately rules against the Trump administration.
During an interview this week, Cruz said Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, has pivoted away from championing conservative causes over the past few years...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court, already poised to turn more to the right, opened its new term Monday with a jolt from two conservative justices who raised new criticism of the court’s embrace of same-sex marriage.
The justices returned from their summer break on a somber note, following the death of...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a requirement that South Carolina residents voting by mail in November’s election get a witness to sign their ballots.
Democrats had sought to have the requirement put on hold, blaming the coronavirus, but Republicans had defended it as deterring fraud.
While the high court...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court's docket when it begins its new session includes cases about the Affordable Care Act, elections, religious liberty, technology, and the Mueller investigation.
A week after the presidential election, the court will hear arguments in a bid by the Trump administration and Republican-led states to overturn...
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, updated the state's health directives to let more people attend religious gatherings, but the order still privileges casinos over churches.
Sisolak's anti-religious mandate lets casinos operate at 50 percent capacity, without a limit on total capacity, while forcing churches to operate at 50 percent...
A U.S. District Court in Kentucky rejected motions to dismiss from four corporate media outlets that former Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann sued, Fox 19 reported.
Sandmann and attorney Lin Wood filed lawsuits in March against The New York Times, Rolling Stones, ABC, CBS, and Gannett, the parent company of...
(Associated Press) U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett graduated in 1994 with honors from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
But more than 1,500 alumni of the small liberal arts school have made it known they are not proud of their ties to the conservative lawyer and judge.
Barrett graduated magna...
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday struck down months of authoritarian lockdown orders by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that the power-hungry Democrat claimed were aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
The court said that the Nazi-era law Whitmer had cited to assert her emergency powers was unconstitutional.
The decision marked...
(Headline USA) A George W. Bush-appointed judge on Thursday temporarily lifted a visa ban on a large number of work permits, undercutting a measure that the Trump administration says protects American jobs in a pandemic-wracked economy.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said his ruling applied to members of organizations that...
Los Angeles must pay the National Rifle Association $150,000 in damages after a federal court ruled the city violated the organization's First Amendment rights, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
A federal judge ordered the payment about 10 months after he decided the case in favor of the NRA.
The ruling came...