Recent Updates
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Georgia appeals court upholds ruling saying election officials must certify results
Legal Compliance 07/08/2025A Georgia appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that said county election officials in the state must vote to certify results according to deadlines set in law.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had ruled in October that &ldqu...
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Virginia Democrats move to round out ticket in key off-year election
Legal Compliance 06/20/2025Former Del. Jay Jones will look to be the face of legal resistance to President Donald Trump in Virginia after winning Tuesday’s closely watched Democratic state primary for attorney general.Jones will face Republican Attorney General Jason Miy...
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Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits
Legal Compliance 06/16/2025A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education.The girl’s family says that ...