A Texas man will serve almost two years in prison for his involvement in the Jan. 6 riot, during which he fought with police and remained on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol for over two hours while they blocked Congress from approving the 2020 presidential election results. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...
A 126-year-old legal obstacle stands in the way of President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to revoke birthright citizenship whenever he returns to office, according to legal experts. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has never made a particular ruling on birthright citizenship, legal experts and Trump opponents have defended the 1898 decision United States v. Wong Kim...
A series of back-and-forth motions filed on Friday have added a certain amount of intrigue to a long-running litigation between former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne and Hunter Biden. However, the hostility in Because of the way the motions procedure happened, the specifics of the most recent legal argument must be kept under wraps. Together with...
A Maryland police officer who was found guilty of hurling smoke bombs at officers manning the U.S. Capitol during the riots on January 6 will serve a year and a half in jail. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Justin Lee, 25, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, 12 months...
When he viciously murdered a nursing student at the University of Georgia, a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally would be imprisoned for the rest of his life. On Wednesday, 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra was informed of his fate in the killing of 22-year-old Laken Riley when she was jogging on campus. Shortly...
Donald Trump, the president-elect of the Central Park Fivesay, is attempting to have their defamation case against him dismissed because of remarks he made during the presidential debate earlier this year, which is illegal. Attorneys for the infamously falsely-accused quintet stated in a letter move filed in a federal court in Pennsylvania on Friday that...
A Washington state proud boy member and convicted Jan. 6 rioter who had a history of berating and abusing him throughout proceedings had his prison sentence lowered by a federal judge. A U.S. Supreme Court decision restricting the government’s use of a federal obstruction law resulted in a one-year reduction in Marc Anthony Bru’s jail...
On Friday, the judge presiding over the time-capsulated hush-money case against President-elect Donald Trump granted prosecutors all they sought while granting the defense only a portion of their demands. Alvin Bragg, the district attorney for Manhattan, received a favorable penultimate hand. Additionally, special counsel Jack Smith, a well-known non-player, has one pocket ace in the...
When basketball legend John Stockton tried to resurrect a First Amendment case that had been dropped over COVID-19 regulations, he asked Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to assist with a screen. The Gonzaga star and several other plaintiffs sued the state’s attorney general, Robert Ferguson, and the executive director of the Washington Medical Commission in...
ALT: According to Ken Paxton, the court must order Jack Smith to protect documents from the destruction of a Trump probe because of a picture of a paper shredder truck outside the DOJ. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is once again requesting that a federal court grant an emergency order for the U.S. Department of...