Recent Updates
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Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP
National Legal News 05/30/2026Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court’s ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people...
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Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants
National Legal News 05/23/2026The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news relea...
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Federal Judge bans most arrests by federal agents in immigration courts in New York
Legal Compliance 05/19/2026Federal agents can no longer make arrests without exceptional circumstances in and around three Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur, a judge ruled Monday. The decision by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel brings an abrupt halt t...
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Court temporarily extends women’s access to a widely used abortion pill
Legal Compliance 05/15/2026The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect. Justice Samuel Alito’s orde...
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A man shot by ICE in California pleads not guilty to federal charges
National Legal News 05/04/2026A man who was shot multiple times during an arrest by immigration officers in central California pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges that he rammed his vehicle into two agents, prosecutors said.A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Carl...
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Trump’s lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president’s $10B lawsuit
Legal Compliance 04/26/2026Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against his own tax collection agency over the leak of his tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. In a federal c...
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Already under financial pressure, Midwest soybean farmers are squeezed further by tariffs
Legal Compliance 04/14/2026Strong winds whipped around Doug Bartek, a fifth-generation farmer, as he headed into a grain bin to shovel soybeans onto a conveyor chute. The 60-year-old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues a...
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Immigration lawyers accuse Vermont prisons of impeding their work
National Legal News 03/16/2026Attorneys and volunteers with the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project used to go into Vermont's prisons and meet with every immigration detainee, using their phones and computers for language interpretation, according to Jill Martin Diaz, executive dir...
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No new trial for man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley
Legal Compliance 03/11/2026A judge has rejected a request for a new trial for a Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration.Lawyers for Jose Ibarra argued his constitutional ri...
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Supreme Court Blocks California Transgender Student Disclosure Law
U.S. Court Watch 03/03/2026The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student’s approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group. The order blocks for...
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Trump administration reaches a trade deal to lower Taiwan’s tariff barriers
Law Journals 02/13/2026The Trump administration reached a trade deal with Taiwan on Thursday, with Taiwan agreeing to remove or reduce 99% of its tariff barriers, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative said.The agreement comes as the U.S. remains reliant on Taiwan for...
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Investigators searching a location in Arizona in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
National Legal News 02/12/2026A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie’s front door the night she vanished from her Arizona...