Law & Justice

The Trump administration let a midnight deadline pass without filing an appeal of a federal court ruling that struck down key provisions of the National Firearms Act, and for the first time in 92 years, Americans began legally acquiring firearm suppressors without federal registration. Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Georgia Republican and gun store owner who […]

Two gun owners walked into a firearms shop in Leander, Texas, just after midnight and walked out with suppressors, no federal registration, no months-long approval wait, and no $200 tax stamp. It was the first time anyone had done that legally in 92 years. Brandon Herrera and Texas state Rep. Wes Virdell completed the transfers […]

The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restored key provisions of Texas’ 2021 mail-in voting law on Wednesday, overturning a lower court decision that had blocked nine parts of the statute and delivering a sharp rebuke to the legal challenges mounted against it. The 11-page ruling, authored by Judge Andrew Oldham, found that the plaintiff […]

Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Alabama each executed a convicted killer by lethal injection Thursday, marking the first time three states put inmates to death on the same day in more than sixteen years. The men died for crimes spanning four decades, from a 1985 motel stabbing to the 2021 rape and murder of a five-year-old girl. […]

A federal judge in Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service from implementing key provisions of President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting, the latest in a string of judicial setbacks for the administration’s election integrity agenda with the November midterms now less than 90 days away. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s […]

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Monday that eliminates the state’s 24-week limit on abortion, making the commonwealth the latest jurisdiction to permit the procedure through all nine months of pregnancy at a physician’s discretion. The law, titled the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, strips away the previous framework that generally prohibited abortions after […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted Thursday morning to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, advancing a resolution that now heads to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution. The 8-5 party-line vote came after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a hearing the previous […]

Sen. Katie Britt and a dozen Republican allies are pushing legislation to close a gap in immigration law that has allowed detained illegal immigrants to walk free when their home countries refuse to take them back, a loophole rooted in a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that imposed a six-month cap on how long the federal […]

A Kansas district court judge blocked a slate of pro-life protections on Monday, then prepared to take his seat on the very state Supreme Court whose earlier ruling he cited to justify the decision. Johnson County District Court Judge K. Christopher Jayaram struck down a 24-hour waiting period for abortions, a requirement that doctors listen […]

A federal judge has dismissed Alex Murdaugh’s civil lawsuit seeking $600,000 from the county clerk whose misconduct with jurors forced the South Carolina Supreme Court to throw out his murder convictions, ruling that the disbarred lawyer lacks standing because the clerk did not cause him to need a defense in the first place. U.S. District […]