A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the District of Columbia’s ban on extra large capacity magazines. A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against four gun owners who argued that they needed magazines that hold up to 17 bullets for self-defense. U.S. Circuit...
A Donald Trump supporter from Alabama who admittedly “lost it” when it seemed inevitable that the former president would be booked at the Fulton County Jail and have a mug shot taken in his Georgia RICO case is now going to federal prison for close to two years for threatening voicemails he left for DA...
The indicted decade-long former FBI informant accused of lodging false bribery allegations against President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden filed a “legally flawed, rambling and disorganized” demand for discovery, whether for “information that does not exist,” evidence that has already been shared with the defense, or documents that he isn’t legally entitled to receive. Two...
As the U.S. Department of Justice and civil rights groups link arms in an effort to stop a commonwealth-sanctioned voter roll purge in Virginia, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s understanding of a nearly 20-year-old legal doctrine has risen to the foreground. In the Old Dominion, under the terms of Executive Order 35, election officials had...
A Texas judge running for reelection is under scrutiny for allegedly illegally soliciting votes from students at the college where he teaches. Tanner Neidhardt was appointed to the 483rd Judicial District Court in Hays County in 2022 by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, for a term set to expire on Dec. 31, 2024. In...
The Donald Trump-appointed federal judge who tossed out the former president’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution and reportedly burnished her perceived credentials as a candidate for U.S. attorney general, if Trump wins the 2024 election, defended herself and her rulings on Tuesday while declining to step aside from presiding over the attempted Trump assassination case against...
Signaling something of a continuation of the amici curiae fight over special counsel Jack Smith’s authority that preceded Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to toss Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Monday allowed the former Whitewater independent counsel, a law professor, and a legal organization to...
The comedic actor behind memorable roles in “Bob’s Burgers” and “Anchorman” has taken a new role: incarcerated felon. Jay James Johnston, 55, was sentenced to one year in prison for participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The riot interrupted Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win and forced lawmakers and...
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has asked a federal judge to grant summary judgment “in its entirety” tossing out Hunter Biden’s defamation lawsuit or to at least rule that President Joe Biden’s son is a public figure who cannot show that claims of “treasonous crimes” involving his father, bribery, Iran, and “nuclear talks” were made...
Lawyers for the Commonwealth of Virginia have asked the chief justice of the United States to allow the state to enforce an executive order from Gov. Glenn Youngkin that some say risks forcing legitimately registered voters off the voting rolls just days before the 2024 presidential election. Youngkin, a Republican, wants the state to purge...