(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court has released a string of landmark rulings recently, from sending the abortion issue back to the states to granting a measure of presidential immunity to the overturning of Chevron deference, significantly weakening federal rulemaking power.
Supreme Court terms begin and end in...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the wake of the deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, the FBI conducted more than 100 eyewitness interviews along with talking to the friends and family of James Alex Fields Jr.—the 20-year-old Ohio man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotestors, killing...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former Proud Boys leader and confirmed FBI informant Enrique Tarrio has requested a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump for the convictions he received in May 2023 over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.
“I respectfully request on my client’s behalf the consideration of a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Though Donald Trump is expected to issue pardons to numerous Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protestors, Politico reported Monday that the Justice Department could charge some 200 more of them before President Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
“Federal prosecutors are weighing charging as many...
(Headline USA) The federal courts on Thursday rejected Democrat-led efforts to refer allegations of ethics crimes against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Justice Department.
Thomas, along with his eight colleagues on the court, has agreed to follow updated requirements on reporting trips and gifts, including clearer guidelines on hospitality...
(Headline USA) Lawyers for disgraced ex-Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. are urging a judge to be lenient at his sentencing later this month for his conviction on bribery charges, saying the ordeal has made him a “national punchline."
Late Thursday, the lawyers wrote to the judge who will sentence him to...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) New York Judge Juan Merchan, who had indefinitely suspended President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing following a Supreme Court ruling that upended the lawfare conviction last year, demanded that Trump appear virtually or in person to be sentenced in the porn star case.
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Trump was summoned to appear...
(Headline USA) South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Hyeong Kwon pleaded not guilty Thursday to a freshly unsealed indictment released in time for his first U.S. court appearance.
Kwon entered the plea in Manhattan federal court two days after his extradition from Montenegro.
The indictment alleges that the man dubbed by some as...
(Headline USA) Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.
The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Asif Merchant, the Pakistani man busted for hiring two undercover FBI agents to be “hitmen” in an Iranian-sponsored assassination plot against Donald Trump, has been held in solitary confinement under squalid conditions since his July 12 arrest, his attorney said in a letter last week.
“The...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, who spearheaded the prosecution of hundreds of peaceful Jan. 6 protestors over the last three-plus years, has announced his impending resignation.
The Justice Department said in a Monday press release that Graves’s resignation is effective Jan. 16....
(Headline USA) A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's overtures to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a U.S. official said.
The decision puts back on track the agreements that would have the three men...