Law & Justice

A Marine veteran serving as the top prosecutor in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, has told his county sheriff he will not enforce Governor Abigail Spanberger’s new ban on semiautomatic firearms, calling the law “unconstitutional and cannot be lawfully enforced.” Ryan Mehaffey, the Commonwealth Attorney for Spotsylvania County, laid out his position in a letter to the […]

President Donald Trump took aim at the Supreme Court on Thursday, predicting the justices will likely rule against his executive order restricting automatic citizenship for some children born on American soil, and warning the consequences will be severe if they do. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump did not mince words about the court he […]

A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer who spent more than five weeks behind bars for sharing memes on Facebook about Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk will receive $835,000 from Perry County and its sheriff’s office, a price tag that lands squarely on local taxpayers for what amounted to a jailing over online speech. Larry […]

Colorado’s highest court ruled 5-2 on Monday that Children’s Hospital Colorado must resume providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors who identify as transgender, finding that the hospital’s decision to halt those treatments violated state anti-discrimination law. The ruling sends the case back to a lower court with instructions to issue an injunction compelling […]

A Kansas state judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a law that banned gender-transition drugs for minors, ruling that the measure likely violates parents’ rights, a decision the state’s attorney general immediately condemned as judicial activism and pledged to fight on appeal. Judge Carl Folsom III of the State District Court in Douglas County issued […]

A federal judge in Manhattan largely blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting civil immigration arrests at several New York City immigration courthouses on Monday, ordering agents to temporarily revert to narrower Biden-era restrictions while a broader lawsuit moves forward. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel issued the ruling after government lawyers admitted they […]

The Supreme Court of the United States rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency appeal to block a state court ruling that struck down a voter-approved redistricting referendum, ending, without a single noted dissent, the party’s effort to redraw the Commonwealth’s congressional map before the 2026 midterms. The order, issued Friday, came after Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones […]

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed SB 749 into law Thursday, banning the sale, purchase, import, manufacture, and transfer of a broad category of semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, and certain centerfire pistols across the Commonwealth. The law takes effect July 1, 2026, and makes violations a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail […]

A former death row inmate who sat through nine execution dates and ate three last meals walked closer to freedom Thursday when an Oklahoma judge set his bond at $500,000, nearly three decades after he was first locked up for a killing he says he did not commit. Judge Natalie Mai issued the order for […]

The South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously threw out Alex Murdaugh’s 2023 double murder conviction on Wednesday, ruling that a county court clerk’s interference with jurors denied the disgraced attorney his constitutional right to a fair trial. The decision, which orders a new trial in the killings of Murdaugh’s wife Maggie and son Paul, lands squarely […]