(Headline USA) Minnesota Senate Republicans on Thursday offered a counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's request for security funding ahead of next month's murder trial for the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd.
The Republican proposal would target Minneapolis by requiring cities to pay for assistance provided by other...
(Associated Press) Financier Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend claims she is being prosecuted on sex abuse charges that could put her in prison for life because Epstein killed himself and prosecutors wanted a substitute to replace him with, lawyers said in newly unsealed court papers.
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers challenged the case brought against...
(Headline USA) A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump — Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the U.S. presidential election.
The...
Even as sanctimonious Democrats in Congress accuse their GOP colleagues of treason and attempted murder for raising legitimate questions of vote fraud in the 2020 election, the Democrats' top election litigation lawyer is continuing to follow their longtime playbook.
Perkins Coie attorney Marc Elias, notorious for flooding the legal system...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is calling for the disbarment of four lawyers who challenged the state’s presidential election results in court.
Whitmer, joined by the state’s attorney general Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, filed a complaint with the Attorney Grievance Commission in Michigan on Monday in an...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university illegally discriminated against Asian American and white applicants.
The Justice Department noted in its filing that it was voluntarily dismissing the action, filed in October under the Trump administration.
A judge must still...
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats said they will use the next two years to "repair the courts"—a phrase that they have adopted to disguise their intention to abandon precedent and fill the federal judiciary with Democratic Party activists.
"I call it repair the courts," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.,...
(Headline USA) Activists unexpectedly abandoned a federal lawsuit that sought to force Facebook to block militias and other right-leaning anti-government groups from using the site.
The suit targeted several of the groups involved in clashes in Wisconsin after violent race riots overtook the city of Kenosha last summer. The militia...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed on Thursday to fight President Joe Biden’s climate agenda in order to save the oil and gas industry.
Abbott said he intends to sue the Biden administration over his environmental policies, which is exactly what he did during the Obama administration as Texas’s attorney general....
The Virginia Circuit Court of Frederick County ruled this week that the state's election department illegally told counties to accept absentee ballots without postmarks up to three days after Election Day, Public Interest Legal Foundation reported in a press release.
"This is a big win for the Rule of Law,"...
President Joe Biden has begun staffing his promised commission to “reform” the Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary.
The commission, which will be part of the White House Counsel’s office and chaired by Biden campaign lawyer Bob Bauer, is moving ahead with its plan to propose various reforms...
President Joe Biden has signed more executive orders in the past week than former presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush combined.
But they may not last long thanks to Trump’s judicial appointments.
Already, a federal judge issued an order preventing Biden from implementing a 100-day pause in deportations.
That...