Recent Updates
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Judge orders Trump administration to end National Guard deployment in DC
Legal Compliance 11/29/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital.U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump’s military takeo...
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S. Carolina lawmakers look at the most restrictive abortion bill in the US
Law Review 11/18/2025A bill that would allow judges to sentence women who get abortions to decades in prison and could restrict the use of IUDs and in vitro fertilization goes before a small group of South Carolina senators Tuesday.This would be the first of at least a h...
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Trump administration to defend Habba’s tenure as top NJ prosecutor
Legal Compliance 10/20/2025A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments Monday over whether President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, has been unlawfully serving as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey since earlier this year.The 3rd Circuit Court of A...
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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment
National Legal News 10/16/2025The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first grad...
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Trump threatens to pull support for Argentina if its politics move leftward
National Legal News 10/15/2025President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to pull assistance for Argentina — led by a political kindred spirit whose philosophy is similar to that of the Republican administration — if the nation’s internal politics don’t a...
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Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination
U.S. Court Watch 10/13/2025Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of Un...
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Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty
National Legal News 10/01/2025Plunged into a government shutdown, the U.S. is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday’s deadline. Roughly 7...
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Government shutdown nears, congressional leaders to meet at White House
Legal Compliance 09/30/2025Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their e...
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams abandons his reelection campaign
Law Review 09/29/2025New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that he is ending his campaign for reelection. In a video released on social media, Adams spoke with pride about his achievements as mayor, including a drop in violent crime. But he said that “con...
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Senate rejects competing bills, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1
Legal Compliance 09/20/2025The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the ot...
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Appeals court upholds Florida law barring noncitizens from gathering voter petitions
National Legal News 09/14/2025Provisions of a Florida law restricting the state’s process for getting citizens’ initiatives on the ballot can go into effect, a federal appeals court has decided. The decision issued Tuesday overrules a lower court’s order that bl...
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Man accused of trying to assassinate Trump apologizes to potential jurors
Legal Compliance 09/10/2025The man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida stood before a group of potential jurors in a Florida courtroom on Monday and said he was “sorry for bringing you all in here.” Ryan R...