Recent Updates
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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 ...
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Judge dismisses the lawsuit against ‘It Ends With Us’ costar Blake Lively
Legal Compliance 06/10/2025A judge on Monday dismissed the lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni filed against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively after she sued him last year for sexual harassment and retaliation.U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Lima...
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World financial markets welcome court ruling against Trump's tariffs
Legal Compliance 05/29/2025Financial markets welcomed a U.S. court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.U.S. futures jumped early Thursday and oil prices rose more than $1. The U.S. dollar rose agains...
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Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Legal Compliance 05/15/2025The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.It was unclear what such a decision might look like, bu...
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How the military is dealing with Hegseth’s order to remove transgender troops
Legal Compliance 05/10/2025The military services scrambled Friday to nail down details and put together new guidance to start removing transgender troops from the force.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a memo released late Thursday, reinstated orders issued earlier this year...
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from Texas under the Alien Enemies Act
Legal Compliance 05/04/2025A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump’s invocation of it was “unlawful.”U.S. District Court Judg...
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Court won’t revive a Minnesota ban on gun-carry permits for young adults
Legal Compliance 04/25/2025The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Minnesota asking to revive the state’s ban on gun-carry permits for young adults.The justices also left in place a ban on guns at the University of Michigan, declining to hear an appeal from a...