Courts & Law
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Four Tren de Aragua members plead guilty to 2024 double murder
Court documents claimed Keiber Jaen Martinez, Samuel Gonzalez Castro, Eferson Morillo-Gomez and Keineyer Ibarra-Mujica agreed to kill 44-year-old Claretha LaQuesha Daniels, 36-year-old Justin Lawless and an unidentified third person in May 2024.
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Justice Department files superseding indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
The field sources allegedly used money to attend extremist rallies, host rallies, grow existing chapters, create new chapters, recruit, donate to extremist leaders, and pay living expenses, the indictment charges.
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DOJ unveils new SPLC allegations in superseding indictment
The original indictment asserted that the SPLC had provided funds to the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Aryan Nations, and the Nationalist Socialist Party of American Nazis.
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Charter bus driver in Virginia crash charged with additional counts of involuntary manslaughter
Stafford Commonwealth District Attorney Eric Olsen said driver Jing Dong has been charged with a total of five felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving.
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Bipartisan bill introduced to make public access to federal court records easier
The bipartisan bill aimed at modernizing the federal court records system would lower operating costs and make access easier to the public
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Outdoor apparel company Patagnonia sues environmentalist drag queen for trademark infringement
Wyn Wiley, who uses the name "Pattie Gonia," started selling apparel branded with his drag queen name online. Apparel maker Patagonia asked Gonia to stop, but he filed a trademark application on the "Pattie Gonia" name.
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Jury finds prominent short seller Andrew Left guilty of securities fraud
Left was also convicted of 12 of 16 other counts related to specific trades on stocks like Tesla, Nvidia, Palantir and Meta, and was acquitted on four counts.
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Country star dating FBI Director Kash Patel sues MS Now alleging defamation
The article claimed Patel told Wilkins' security detail to “escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville.” The story was based on three anonymous sources and the FBI has denied the allegation.
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Article III Project asks DOJ to investigate Colorado officials over Tina Peters imprisonment
The letter comes the same day that Peters was released from prison after Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence.
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Federal judge blocks National Park Service from revoking permit for protests with ’8647′ flag
The protesters have argued that they are not calling for violence against the president, but instead are seeking his impeachment and removal from office.
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Federal court blocks War Department from booting trans troops, allows ban on new recruits
The D.C. court wrote that the administration had failed to show that a temporary injunction against removing transgender personnel would harm national security.
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Florida sues OpenAI over claimed AI harms, including aiding mass shooters, encouraging suicide
The lawsuit follows a criminal investigation Uthmeier opened in April after prosecutors uncovered the role that ChatGPT played in the Florida State University shooting last year.
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Judge postpones hearings in Georgia case after DOJ seeks recusal
U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross granted a motion to continue forward with planned June 3 hearings over the DOJ's bid to secure Georgia's non-public voter registration information.