Recent Updates
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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...
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Ex-Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut a flight’s engines pleads guilty
U.S. Court Watch 09/05/2025A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit pleaded guilty or no-contest to all charges against him Friday, saying in court that he regretted endangering those on boar...
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Washington, Oregon and California governors form a health alliance
National Legal News 09/03/2025The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the...
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Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess
National Legal News 09/02/2025Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote. But as they return to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, they wi...
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Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court faces critical test of independence
Legal Compliance 09/01/2025Mexico’s first elected Supreme Court will be seated Monday and observers will be watching closely to see whether it will assert its independence from the governing party that held the country’s first judicial elections. Just three of its ...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces new deportation efforts after ICE detains him in Baltimore
U.S. Court Watch 08/27/2025Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s aggressive effort to remove noncitizens from the U.S., was detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore on Monday to face renewed efforts to deport him aft...
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Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections
National Legal News 08/22/2025The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats and a widening national battle over redistricting...
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Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
Legal Compliance 08/21/2025A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were tr...
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New lawsuit challenges Trump’s federal takeover of DC police department
U.S. Court Watch 08/17/2025The nation’s capital challenged President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration stepped up its crackdown on policing by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of t...
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Trump’s nominee to oversee jobs, inflation data faces shower of criticism
Law Journals 08/12/2025The director of the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data is typically a mild-mannered technocrat, often with extensive experience in statistical agencies, with little public profile.But like so much in President Donald Trum...
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Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants
National Legal News 08/10/2025An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make th...