Recent Updates
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Breakneck pace in immigration courts is driving up deportation orders
Court Watch 08/08/2026The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog. The result is a historic rise in the number of people missing court dates and being immediately ordered dep...
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Court rejects Biden’s bid to block release of recordings of ghostwriter interviews
Court Watch 07/20/2026A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president. A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appea...
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Ex-captain pleads guilty to drugging and raping a US Merchant Marine Academy cadet
Court Watch 07/17/2026A former cargo ship captain pleaded guilty on Wednesday to drugging and raping a 21-year-old U.S. Merchant Marine Academy cadet who was working on the vessel as part of the academy’s Sea Year training program. John Merrone, 53, pleaded guilty j...
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Court Rules Cellphone Location History Is Protected by the Constitution
Court Watch 06/30/2026The Supreme Court held Monday that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence warrant. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 6-3 court ...
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California governor’s primary pitted experience against promises of change
Court Watch 06/02/2026California’s crowded primary for governor remained unresolved early Wednesday after three leading candidates tested voters’ appetites for an experienced politician or promises of sweeping change. Though votes were still being counted, Dem...
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Justice Department targets immigration judges as Trump pushes faster deportations
Court Watch 05/10/2026The Justice Department is aiming to weed out immigration judges who it feels are ruling too slowly or aren’t following the law, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, as the Trump administration seeks to remake the courts and cut ...
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Man who firebombed a demonstration in Colorado is sentenced to life in prison
Court Watch 05/08/2026A judge sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday after he pleaded guilty to killing one person and injuring a dozen others in a 2025 firebombing attack on a demonstration in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli...
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Trump shares video of a brutal Florida killing allegedly by Haitian immigrant
Court Watch 04/12/2026President Donald Trump shared a video of a deadly attack allegedly by a Haitian immigrant accused of bludgeoning a woman with a hammer at a Florida gas station, portraying the killing as justification for his administration’s mass deportation a...
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Federal court hears new case against Trump’s latest global tariffs
Court Watch 04/10/2026The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s economic policy — sweeping taxes on global imports — is under legal assault again.The U.S. Court of International Trade, a specialized court in New York, heard oral arguments Friday in an ...
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Federal Judge Says Trump Move to Dismantle VOA Is Illegal
Court Watch 04/04/2026A federal judge has ruled that actions taken to dismantle Voice of America (VOA) were unlawful, finding that Kari Lake lacked the legal authority to carry them out.In a decision issued Saturday, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth determined that L...
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Army sergeant wants to plead guilty in Georgia base shootings that injured 5
Court Watch 03/13/2026An Army sergeant accused of shooting and wounding five co-workers at a southeast Georgia base last summer is seeking to plead guilty to attempted murder and other charges in a military court, Army prosecutors said Thursday.Authorities say Sgt. Quorne...
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House will vote on an Iran war powers resolution in a test of Trump's strategy
Court Watch 03/06/2026The House is preparing to vote Thursday on a war powers resolution to halt President Donald Trump's attack on Iran, a sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad.It's the second ...