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....
An accused Jan. 6 rioter and onetime City Council candidate in Topeka, Kansas, asked a judge to delay his trial until after Donald Trump takes office, warning him of a “dangerous cycle of retribution.” William Alexander Pope, who’s representing himself in his trial, warned U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a Barack Obama appointee, in...
A federal judge in Texas has struck down a policy aimed at allowing undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to stay in the country instead of being deported while waiting for green card status. The so-called “parole in place” policy was announced by President Joe Biden in June, and the “Keeping Families Together” program...
The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected election denialist Kari Lake‘s last-gasp effort to become the governor of the Grand Canyon State — in brief but decisive fashion. Without a word of reasoning or analysis, the state’s highest court declined to review the petition in the case stylized as Lake v. Hobbs — in a minutes...