(Headline USA) A Wisconsin court commissioner on Monday set bail for an Illinois 17-year-old accused of killing two people during a protest at $2 million, setting aside pleas from one victim's father to double that amount.
Kenosha County prosecutors have charged Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois, with fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign are signaling they will pursue an aggressive legal strategy to try to prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election.
The matter could find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, especially if those ballots could tip...
(Headline USA) Signature matches. Late-arriving absentee votes. Drop boxes. Secrecy envelopes.
Democratic and Republican lawyers already have gone to court over these issues in the run-up to Tuesday's election. But the legal fights could take on new urgency, not to mention added vitriol, if a narrow margin in a battleground state...
(Headline USA) The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area.
The state's all-Republican high court rejected the request from GOP activists and candidates without explaining its decision.
The effort to have the Harris County ballots...
(Headline USA) The Michigan appeals court on Thursday rejected an appeal from a Democratic state official who wants to ban the open carry of guns outside polling places.
The court, in a 3-0 order, declined to hear the case but noted that it's already illegal to intimidate voters or aggressively wave...
(Headline USA) The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an award of nearly $600,000 against Sen. Rand Paul's former neighbor, who attacked the lawmaker in 2017 in an alleged dispute over lawncare, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
Rene Boucher had asked the high court to review the award but the court declined...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court will allow mail-in ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to nine days after Election Day, enabling candidates and parties who may be behind after counting to "find" ballots to make up any shortfalls against their opponents.
The justices, by a 5-3 vote...
Following the confirmation and swearing in of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, bitter Democrats redoubled their vows to pack the judiciary in the event that they take over control of Congress and the presidency after next week's election.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who had previously declared that "nothing...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court sided with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day.
In a 5-3 order, the justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lower court order that called for mailed ballots to be counted if they are received up to six days...
(Associated Press) A federal judge on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump's request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came after the Justice...
(Headline USA) Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, with Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and likely shifting the court in a conservative direction.
Trump's choice to fill the vacancy of the late...
(Headline USA) Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation despite Democratic objections, just over a week before the presidential election.
Barrett's confirmation on Monday was hardly in doubt, with majority Republicans mostly united in support behind President Donald Trump's pick.
But Democrats were poised to...