Courts & Law
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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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Defendant in Colorado terror attack sentenced to life in prison
Soliman initially pleaded not guilty in the June 1, 2025, attack in which he threw Molotov cocktails at vigil participants, injuring at least 15 and killing an 82-year-old woman, but changed his plea Wednesday to guilty for all 101 state charges.
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5th Circuit vacates Louisiana ruling after SCOTUS strikes down maps
The case has led to a series of redraw pushes across the South, including in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
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Appeals court also seems skeptical of DOJ case arguing Sen Kelly's comments are 'seditious'
Judge Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee, said that Kelly appears to advise troops they have no obligation to obey unlawful orders, as opposed to telling them to ignore orders that are illegal.
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Justice Department investigating Virginia prosecutor alleged to be too lenient on immigrants
The DOJ is looking into whether policies that provided preferential treatment to illegal immigrants, which allowed them to avoid deportation, violated the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against U.S. citizens.
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Federal judge rules that DOJ can keep 2020 election ballots seized from Georgia's Fulton County
The seizure by the FBI on January 28 was based on the Justice Department’s investigation into “irregularities that occurred during the 2020 presidential election in the County.”
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SCOTUS rejects request from Black voters to roll back order finalizing redistricting ruling
Black voters who defended the congressional map the high court struck down asked the court to reverse its decision to skip the waiting period, arguing they had, contrary to the majority's conclusion, intended to have the ruling reconsidered.
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DOJ investigation concludes UCLA med school discriminated by race
The DOJ did not announce any charges, but stated that it sought a "voluntary resolution agreement" with the university.
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Blue state gerrymanderers in legal crosshairs for violating civil rights, must comply, Dhillon says
If congressional maps are redrawn in blue states to comply with the legal precedent established in Louisiana v. Callais, Republicans will likely pick up multiple seats in areas previously represented by Democrats. Ass't. A.G. Harmeet Dhillon predicts considerable legal brawling.
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Colorado man to plead guilty deadly 2025 terror attack in Colorado a vigil for Israeli Gaza hostages
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspect, previously faced dozens of charges related to the attack, which injured at least 15 people after he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at participants attending a vigil for Israeli hostages in Gaza.
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Virginia prosecutor declines to bring charges against woman accused of threatening Stephen Miller
No federal charges have so far been brought against activist Barbara Wien either.