Law & Justice

Former special counsel Jack Smith’s team used grand jury subpoenas to quietly obtain more than two years of phone records, text-message logs, and financial information belonging to Kash Patel, now the director of the FBI, while Patel was a private citizen, according to documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee […]

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wants Democrats to prosecute Trump administration officials and federal law enforcement agents if his party recaptures the White House in 2028. Not figuratively. Not through oversight hearings or sternly worded letters. Criminally prosecuted. Civilly prosecuted. His words. The billionaire governor, now running for a third term in Springfield, laid out the […]

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an order on March 4 requiring courts to be notified whenever a grand jury refuses to approve an indictment, a move that landed squarely in the middle of the Trump administration’s effort to bring charges against six Democratic members of Congress. The order demands that grand jury forepersons […]

A Florida hospital filed a lawsuit to remove a former patient who has occupied an inpatient room for five months after doctors cleared her to go. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare says the woman was formally discharged on Oct. 6, and she’s still there. The case captures a maddening reality in American health care: a system so […]

California tried to gut a Supreme Court order protecting parents’ right to know when their children identify as transgender at school. A federal appeals court said no. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied the state’s request to reinterpret the high court’s ruling more narrowly, handing parents and […]

Sen. Josh Hawley is demanding answers from the two companies that manufacture the nation’s most widely used abortion drug, and he wants their internal records on the table by late April. The Missouri Republican sent letters to Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro notifying both firms that he is launching formal investigations through the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee […]

The House Oversight Committee has formally subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi, demanding she testify about the Justice Department’s management of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Chairman James Comer ordered Bondi to appear for a deposition on April 14. The move marks a sharp escalation. Congress wants answers about why, after decades of investigation spanning four presidential […]

A Utah judge refused to hide court documents from the public in the case against the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, ruling that open proceedings trump defense complaints about media coverage. Judge Tony Graf Jr. handed down the decision Friday in Provo, denying defense motions to restrict access to filings and ban […]

A federal judge dismissed the Mountain West Conference from Brooke Slusser’s Title IX lawsuit but kept the case alive against the California State University system, and punted the key question to the Supreme Court. Colorado District Judge Kato Crews ruled Tuesday that Title IX damages claims against the CSU Board will wait until the high […]

A majority of the Supreme Court’s justices stayed home Tuesday night while President Donald Trump delivered his 2026 State of the Union address. Only four of nine justices sat in the House Chamber. The absences came just days after the Court handed down a 6, 3 decision striking down Trump’s sweeping global tariff plan. The […]