Law & Justice

The Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to resolve allegations that the social media giant violated federal children’s privacy law, collecting personal data from users under 13 without parental consent and, in some cases, refusing to delete underage accounts when parents demanded it. The deal, […]

A retired Texas judge denied Karmelo Anthony’s bid for a new trial Saturday, leaving the 19-year-old’s murder conviction and 35-year prison sentence intact after a two-day hearing that laid bare a bitter dispute between former defense lawyers and prosecutors over an unwritten agreement that kept Anthony off the witness stand. Retired District Judge Michael Chitty […]

A federal judge in Manhattan has vacated the State Department’s freeze on immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries, ruling that Secretary of State Marco Rubio exceeded his legal authority when he directed consular officers to deny visas to otherwise eligible applicants. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee, issued a 61-page opinion finding […]

Chief Justice John Roberts stepped in Friday and issued an administrative stay that keeps construction crews working on President Trump’s White House ballroom project, hours before a federal appeals court mandate would have shut down above-ground work. The order does not settle the legal fight, but it hands the Trump administration a concrete, if temporary, […]

Andrew Haden, the 48-year-old former twice-acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, was found dead Wednesday inside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building in downtown San Diego after being reported missing hours earlier. The San Diego Police Department said it does not suspect foul play. Haden spent 16 years at the U.S. Attorney’s […]

A Trump-appointed federal judge halted key provisions of a Colorado law that singled out the state’s only ICE detention center for unannounced inspections and steep fines, ruling that the measure likely violated the Constitution’s supremacy clause by targeting a private company doing the federal government’s work. Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico issued the preliminary […]

Twenty deportees from the United States touched down at Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia, Liberia, on Thursday, the first arrivals under a deal in which the West African nation agreed to accept up to 1,200 non-Liberian nationals removed from the U.S. for immigration violations. The flight marks one of the most significant expansions yet of […]

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted a temporary hold on the Temporary Protected Status program for Ethiopian nationals on Tuesday, handing the Trump administration a significant legal victory in its push to end deportation protections for immigrants from countries the Department of Homeland Security says no longer qualify. DHS wasted no time. Within […]

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the Trump administration on Friday, reviving a Department of Justice subpoena targeting a telemedicine clinic accused of prescribing sex-change drugs to children. The 2-1 ruling reversed a lower court order that had blocked the subpoena and sent the case back […]

A federal judge in Boston appointed by President Obama cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals, lifting a stay she had previously imposed and acknowledging that the Supreme Court’s recent decision left her no room to keep the protections in place. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs dropped […]