A Virginia judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that bars the Virginia State Police from enforcing a newly passed assault weapons ban, halting the law six days before it was set to take effect. Lancaster County Circuit Court Judge John Martin ruled in favor of the plaintiffs’ motion for an injunction on the law in [...]

Former US national security advisor John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony count of unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information. This development resolved a case that had been closely watched as a test of the Justice Department’s prosecutions of President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies. Bolton previously quantified the charge as a weaponization [...]

A federal judge in New York blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) from obtaining the sensitive medical records of transgender minors from New York City hospitals on Wednesday, granting an emergency temporary restraining order to families and patients who argued the administration’s subpoenas violated their constitutional privacy rights. The ruling came in Coe v. Blanche, [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) Judges Kimberly Prost, Solomy Bossa and Reine Alapini-Gansou on Wednesday sued US President Donald Trump for overstepping the boundaries of his authority in issuing sanctions to ICC officials involved in investigating crimes in Afghanistan and Palestine. The suit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenges [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called for independent investigations into dozens of deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. He urged authorities to take immediate measures to prevent further fatalities as the number of deaths in detention continues to rise. According to Türk, at least 52 people have died [...]

A US federal judge in California on Tuesday vacated four of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, holding that immigration officials have failed to provide a legally sufficient justification for eliminating longstanding limits on civil immigration enforcement at courthouses. The court granted the plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment, finding that the challenged policies are arbitrary [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law requiring licensed permit holders to obtain a property owner’s express permission before carrying a firearm onto private property open to the public. In its ruling, the Court held 6-3 that the rule violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution. The decision [...]

A US federal judge has quashed Department of Justice (DOJ) grand jury subpoenas targeting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and other state and local officials. The court found that the DOJ used the subpoenas as part of an unconstitutional effort to pressure them into assisting federal immigration enforcement. In an order dated [...]

A forensic scientist whose manipulation of DNA evidence has thrown more than 1,000 Colorado criminal cases into doubt pleaded guilty Tuesday to four felonies, closing a prosecution that has forced courts across the state to re-examine convictions based on her work. Yvonne “Missy” Woods was charged with 102 felonies in January 2025 and pleaded not [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Damon Landor, a Rastafarian man imprisoned in Louisiana, could not sue the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC) officials who restrained him and cut off his dreadlocks. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the 6-3 opinion, which focused on the applicability of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act [...]