Courts & Law
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Judge declines to recuse self in dispute on Trump's DC golf course renovation
"The Government has not met its burden to demonstrate that the Court’s actions and words demand disqualification," Reyes wrote. "Motion DENIED."
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Supreme Court upholds Pentagon decision to toss plea deal for alleged 9/11 conspirators
The decision keeps in place a decision from an appeals court last year that found former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had the authority to cancel the agreements, which took the death penalty off the table for the three alleged conspirators, CNN reported.
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Supreme Court agrees to review federal ban on distilling spirits in private homes
Under the federal law, people caught distilling in their home face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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Judge orders Trump administration to halt taxpayer-funded TV ads
U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon agrees the $20 million federal ad campaign constitutes a misuse of government funds.
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Ethics complaint filed against NY Attorney General Letitia James in Cornell 7 case
The complaint calls for James to recuse herself or be removed from the case.
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Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz blasts Jack Smith, urges DOJ to rein in spying on phones
Dershowitz said the use of a pen register device to track the phone calls between defense lawyers was “a clear violation of expectations of privacy.”
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Christa Pike moves back to prison: report
Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and is back at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center
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Trump attempts to revive dismissed lawsuit against Clinton: report
Trump has argued that Clinton and her allies tried to destroy his 2016 presidential campaign with claims of collusion between his campaign and Russia.
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U.S. sanctions ICC shortly after former ICC judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions, saying the Trump administration is seeking to curb the court’s operations, arguing it has overreached its authority
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Curtis Flowers, black man whose death sentence was tossed out by SCOTUS, dies at the age of 56
Flowers sat on death row for 22 years and was given the death penalty for the 1996 killings of four people at his former job, despite there never being any DNA evidence linking him to the crime and the murder weapon was never found.
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Christa Pike suffered from pneumonia, blood clot in arm after botched execution, lawyers say
Pike's attorneys said they were told that their client was brain-dead on Monday but that by Tuesday she was awake and talking to her medical team, though she was confused and disoriented at first.
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Vance unveils sweeping visa crackdown, ends PERM for Microsoft
The vice president highlighted the lower average wages of imported foreign workers in the university system than American graduate students, saying the schools were using them to undercut wages for graduate students.
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Maduro faces more charges including alleged torture, according to new, unsealed federal indictment
Maduro had already been charged with participating in a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S.