Recent Updates
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Supreme Court sides with immigration judges in speech case for now
National Legal News 12/20/2025The Supreme Court sided with immigration judges on Friday, rebuffing the Trump administration for now in a case with possible implications for federal workers as the justices weigh expanding presidential firing power. The decision is a technical step...
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Wisconsin judge postpones hearing for 1 of 3 former Trump aides
Legal Compliance 12/13/2025A Wisconsin judge on Monday postponed a preliminary hearing for one of three former aides to President Donald Trump facing felony forgery charges related to the 2020 election amid questions about what statements the man made to prosecutors could be a...
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Supreme Court hears Alabama appeal to execute intellectually disabled man
National Legal News 12/10/2025The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled.The justices are taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants t...
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Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building
Legal Compliance 12/06/2025The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has planted the president’s name on its headquarters despite an ongoing fight over control of the institute. It’s the latest twist in a sees...
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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...