(Headline USA) A former “Apprentice" contestant who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault dropped her defamation lawsuit against him Friday.
Summer Zervos sued the then-president in New York state court in 2017, saying he damaged her reputation when he said she and other women alleging sexual assault and...
(Headline USA) The defense rested its case Thursday at the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, setting the stage for closing arguments Monday.
Rittenhouse's lawyers put on about 2 1/2 days of testimony to the prosecution's five, with the most riveting moment coming when the 18-year-old told the jury that he...
(Joe Mueller, The Center Square) Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is leading a third multi-state coalition in a lawsuit against a federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates, this time for health care workers who serve Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Schmitt and fellow Republican Attorney General Doug Peterson of Nebraska gathered a group...
(Brett Davis, The Center Square) An unusual public records request from the office of Gov. Jay Inslee may be related to today’s Washington State Supreme Court ruling that partial vetoes Inslee made in the 2019 transportation budget were unconstitutional.
The public records request targeted four Democratic state senators---Reuven Carlyle, Steve...
As Democrats remain terrified of the prospect of a red wave in the 2022 miderm election---and even looking ahead to the 2024 general election---the partisan Justice Department may try to ensure that the most famous figure to emerge from the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol stays safely...
UPDATE:Mistrial Possible After Judge Berates Prosecutor
In their zeal to obtain a conviction, prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, already floundering badly, might have crossed a line that costs them the case.
Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder said he would take under advisement a motion for a mistrial with prejudice to...
(Headline USA) The Biden administration framed its vaccine mandate for private employers in life-and-death terms Monday in a legal filing that sought to get the requirement back on track after it was halted by a federal court.
Its filing in response to a stay issued over the weekend by the...
(Headline USA) The rioter who survived after Kyle Rittenhouse shot him on the streets of Kenosha testified that he pointed his own gun at Rittenhouse but didn't mean to and claimed he had no intention of firing it.
Gaige Grosskreutz, the third and final man shot by Rittenhouse during a...
(Headline USA) Two and a half seconds before Kyle Rittenhouse began shooting in the streets of Kenosha, someone in the crowd fired a shot into the air, a detective testified at Rittenhouse's murder trial Thursday.
The defense has said that that shot made Rittenhouse think he was under attack.
Rittenhouse, 18,...
According to Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh "openly worried" during oral arguments Monday that part of the recently passed Texas Heartbeat Act can "easily be replicated in other states ... to target gun rights, free speech rights or religious rights."
Some took it as an indication...
The Biden administration is once again trying to end former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy despite a court order requiring the government to reimplement it.
Administration officials asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week to vacate an August decision from a federal district court...
In a verdict that may lead to some semblance of sanity in the application of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a North Carolina jury has awarded $10 million to a health care executive allegedly fired to make room for "diversity and inclusion" hires.
NBC News reported that David Duvall...