Law & Justice

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown Georgia’s long-running redistricting battle back to square one, and the new legal terrain favors the state’s Republican mapmakers. The appeals court vacated a lower court judgment that had struck down Georgia’s 2021 congressional and state legislative maps, ordering U.S. District Judge Steve Jones to reconsider the […]

A federal appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a possession charge against a Wisconsin man who kept hundreds of AI-created sexually explicit images depicting children on his home devices, and the judges who signed the ruling openly warned that the Supreme Court precedent binding their hands may no longer make sense in the age […]

A Dutch court convicted a 66-year-old Rwandan man of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and sentenced him to life in prison, delivering a measure of justice more than three decades after one of the worst mass atrocities of the twentieth century. The Hague District Court announced the verdict on Friday, finding the defendant guilty […]

A federal appeals court has handed the Department of Justice a significant win, ruling 2-1 that Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., cannot hide behind legislative immunity to escape criminal charges for allegedly striking federal immigration officers at a Newark detention facility last year. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit refused to dismiss two […]

A Reagan-appointed federal judge has blocked Texas from enforcing its 2023 law restricting drag performances near minors, for the second time, ruling that Senate Bill 12 is so broadly written it could criminalize everything from cheerleading routines to a Dolly Parton concert. U.S. District Judge David Hittner, sitting on the Southern District of Texas bench, […]

A federal judge in New York has denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to vacate her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismissing her sprawling petition as “lengthy and rambling” and her arguments as “all meritless” and “all or almost all” frivolous. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer’s opinion, filed Monday and made public Tuesday, leaves […]

A federal judge appointed by President Clinton blocked Ohio’s law requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, prompting Secretary of State Frank LaRose to announce an immediate appeal and setting up a legal fight over whether states can verify voters are citizens before adding them to the rolls. Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. granted a […]

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major legal victory, ruling 6-3 to lift a lower court injunction that had blocked the president’s executive order restricting mail-in voting. The unsigned order clears the way for federal agencies to begin enforcing new ballot-delivery rules before states start sending mail ballots to voters in early September. […]

A private arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to immediately reinstate opinion columnist Karen Attiah and pay her back wages after ruling the newspaper lacked justification to fire her over social media posts she made following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last September. Arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa found that the Post “did not […]

A retired Texas judge has shut down Karmelo Anthony’s push for a retrial, leaving the 19-year-old’s murder conviction and 35-year prison sentence firmly in place. Retired District Judge Michael Chitty issued the ruling after a two-day hearing near Dallas, finding no grounds to overturn the jury’s verdict in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf […]