A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 is “unconstitutional on its face” due to its “overtly religious purpose.” Louisiana became the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom when it...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice to prevent the potential destruction of any records or documents from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and efforts to try and overturn the 2020 presidential election. “I will not allow the...
Add Proud Boys member and Florida man Joseph Biggs — convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to one of the longest prison terms for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, to the growing list of felons seeking a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump...
A state judge in New York has put the brakes on scheduled proceedings in President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money case. New York County Judge Juan Merchan had been set to decide whether Trump’s felony criminal convictions will stand in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping presidential immunity decision. Merchan on Tuesday granted a joint...
Justice Department prosecutors on Monday said they couldn’t care less about special counsel Jack Smith’s decision to call it quits in the Washington, D.C., criminal case against Donald Trump, telling an accused Jan. 6 rioter who brought it up in a motion recently that the move was an “unprecedented circumstance” and shouldn’t be expected in...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has told people close to her that she has no plans of stepping down before Donald Trump takes office, according to multiple reports, as calls have emerged on the left for her to do so in a bid to clamp Trump’s power. “This is no time to lose her important...
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., convicted a 35-year-old Tennessee man for breaking into the U.S. Capitol and assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 attack, the Department of Justice announced Friday. Edward Kelley was found guilty of three felonies, including civil disorder, one count of destruction of government property in an amount over $1,000...
A Virginia man who smashed windows in the Speaker’s Lobby moments before Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol officer during the Jan. 6 riots was sentenced to eight years in prison. Zachary Jordan Alam, 32, learned his fate this week. In addition to the prison time, he was also given 36...
So-called “Kraken” attorney Sidney Powell was instructed to provide Dominion Voting Systems with various and substantial documents in a discovery order issued by a federal court on Friday. In the case, the initial lawsuit was filed by the voting machine business against Powell in January 2021 — alleging the Texas-based lawyer defamed the company by...
A McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts likely served a Muslim child pork in an act of discrimination, a state agency recently ruled. In 2021, Ghadir Alahmar, who wears a hijab — a traditional Muslim headscarf — visited a branch of the popular fast food chain in Chicopee, a medium-sized city in the greater Springfield metro area....