Recent Updates
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Trump vows to change how elections are run. Constitution doesn’t grant that power
Court Watch 08/19/2025President Donald Trump on Monday vowed more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.Relying on false information and conspiracy theories that he’s reg...
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Victims feeling exhausted and anxious about wrangling over Epstein files
Court Watch 08/05/2025Women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein are feeling skeptical and anxious about the Justice Department’s handling of records related to the convicted sex offender, with some backing more public disclosures as an overdue measure of tra...
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San Francisco to ban homeless people from living in RVs with new parking limit
Court Watch 07/22/2025San Francisco is set to ban homeless people from living in RVs by adopting strict new parking limits the mayor says are necessary to keep sidewalks clear and prevent trash buildup. The policy, up for final approval by San Francisco supervisors Tuesda...
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Fights over charters loom over NASCAR as teams, series await key court rulings
Court Watch 07/16/2025It’s the summer to sue in NASCAR, the sport where the on-track bumping and banging is in danger of being overshadowed by the action in the courtroom. Two teams — one owned by retired NBA great Michael Jordan — are suing NASCAR over ...
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Honduran family freed from detention after lawsuit against ICE courthouse arrests
Court Watch 07/04/2025A mother and her two young children from Honduras who had filed what was believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant arrests at courthouses have been released from detention, ci...
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Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states
Court Watch 06/30/2025The Supreme Court on Monday threw out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths. But the justices took n...
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Supreme Court meets to decide remaining cases, including birthright citizenship
Court Watch 06/26/2025The Supreme Court is meeting Friday to decide the final six cases of its term, including President Donald Trump’s bid to enforce his executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegall...
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Court widens options for vaping companies pushing back against FDA rules
Court Watch 06/24/2025The Supreme Court sided with e-cigarette companies on Friday in a ruling making it easier to sue over Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking their products from the multibillion-dollar vaping market.The 7-2 opinion comes as companies push ba...
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Judge asks if troops in Los Angeles are violating the Posse Comitatus Act
Court Watch 06/21/2025California’s challenge of the Trump administration’s military deployment in Los Angeles returned to a federal courtroom in San Francisco on Friday for a brief hearing after an appeals court handed President Donald Trump a key procedural w...
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Getty Images and Stability AI clash in UK copyright trial testing AI's future
Court Watch 06/09/2025Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry.Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The tr...
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Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute
Court Watch 05/27/2025The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other ai...
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Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans
Court Watch 05/14/2025The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal...