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(Headline USA) A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday revived House Democrats' lawsuit to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before a congressional committee, but left other legal issues unresolved with time growing short in the current Congress. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...

UPDATE: The NRA has filed a countersuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James accusing her of defamation and violating the group's First Amendment rights, Fox News reported. James "made the political prosecution of the NRA a central campaign theme" during her 2018 election bid, it says. Original story below: After an...

(Associated Press) A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a judge’s order that shut down the Dakota Access pipeline pending a full environmental review. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with pipeline owner Energy Transfer to keep the oil flowing, saying a lower-court judge “did...

(Associated Press) The day after Donald Trump’s election in November 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union posted a message to him on its website: “See you in court.” As president, Trump hasn’t personally squared off against the ACLU from the witness stand, but the broader warning has been borne out. As...

(Associated Press) The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is suing the mayor and interim police chief, saying his firing violated his constitutional rights and the city code. Meanwhile, prosecutors have asked a judge to revoke his bond. Garrett Rolfe was fired June 13, the day after he...

(Courthouse News Service) Thousands of invalidated mail-in ballots from New York’s Democratic primary election in June must be counted, a federal judge ruled late Monday night in a statewide order. “The Constitution is not so toothless,” U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres wrote in a 48-page opinion that says the New York...

(Headline USA) Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg waited more than four months to reveal that her cancer had returned and that she was undergoing chemotherapy. In an institution that zealously guards the justices' privacy, only a justice can decide when an injury or illness should be made public. Ginsburg, who was in...

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial...

(Headline USA) St. Louis County’s prosecutor announced Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about alleged racial injustice. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell's decision marked the...

(Headline USA) Newly unsealed court documents provide a fresh glimpse into a fierce civil court fight between Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, and one of the women who accused the couple of sexual abuse. The documents released Thursday were from a now-settled defamation lawsuit filed by one of Epstein's alleged victims,...

The attorney for a St. Louis couple who brandished firearms at protesters trespassing on their property filed a motion this week to dismiss the felony charges brought by Soros-funded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. Attorney Joel Schwartz, who is representing Mark and Patricia McCloskey, accused Gardner of using her...

(Associated Press) The U.S. government dropped its effort to silence President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer on Thursday, saying it will no longer demand that Michael Cohen not speak with the media in the weeks before his book critical of his former boss is released. An agreement between lawyers for the...