(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(Associated Press) One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation about his motives for serving on the jury and whether it might be grounds for appeal.
A photo, posted...
The family of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was killed during the Jan. 6 US Capitol uprising, is planning on suing the Capitol Police and the officer who fatally shot her for at least $10 million.
Babbitt’s family members made the announcement after the Justice Department said there...
(Headline USA) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sued the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday in an effort to see fireworks shot over Mount Rushmore National Monument on Independence Day.
The Republican governor successfully pushed last year for a return of the pyrotechnic display after a decade-long hiatus.
The event drew national...
(Headline USA) Desperately longing for a pet cause to divert attention from his own scandals, Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo railed one last time against one of his favorite scapegoats, the Trump administration.
Blaming Trump's "xenophobia" for the massive decline in population that his state suffered in the recent...
(Headline USA) An unusual coalition of Supreme Court justices joined Thursday to rule in favor of an immigrant fighting deportation in a case that the court said turned on the meaning of the shortest word, “a.”
By a 6-3 vote, the court sided with Agusto Niz-Chavez, a Guatemalan immigrant who has...
An army of 100 Democrat lawyers failed yet again to stall the Arizona legislature's audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
Despite concerns over his potential ties to one of the top law firms leading the Left's effort, Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin rejected allegations about voter privacy that...