Former prosecutor Nathaniel Akerman urged a federal judge overseeing the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams to appoint a special counsel to review the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) abrupt request to drop charges on Monday. Akerman was a Watergate prosecutor, and his move comes amid growing criticism of the DOJ’s handling of [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it will no longer defend the independent status of three key consumer and worker protection agencies. The announcement came in a letter by Acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris and addressed to Sen. Dick Durbin (III.). The agencies affected are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), [...]

Steve Bannon, a White House adviser to US President Donald Trump during his first term, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors in a fundraising campaign that claimed to support the construction of a wall along the southern US border. The plea deal allows Bannon to avoid prison time under a three-year conditional release, compared [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Wednesday from accessing sensitive data and systems within the Department of Labor until Friday. The order follows the lawsuit filed by a coalition of federal unions seeking to prevent the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data [...]

The city of Baltimore and three civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to overturn two executive orders issued in recent weeks by the administration of US President Donald Trump aimed at ending federal diversity programs. The lawsuit argues the orders violate constitutional protections and undermine efforts to promote equal opportunities. The lawsuit [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday dropped the criminal proceedings against Trump’s co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera, in the classified documents case initiated by former special counsel Jack Smith. The appeals court must still approve the Justice Department’s request for the appeal to be officially terminated. The [...]

An Ontario judge ruled on Tuesday that the two teenage girls charged in the “swarming” death of Kenneth Lee in Toronto in 2022 had their charter rights violated and called the provincial government’s strip-search policy “troubling.” The judge opted to give the accused girls a reduced sentence. Justice David Stewart Rose found that routine searches violated the [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada announced on Thursday that it will hear a landmark challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21. The law was passed in 2019 and prohibits certain public sector employees in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols while on duty. Central to the case are Sections 2(a) and 15 of the [...]

Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging US President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. Central to the lawsuit is the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US. The clause was last interpreted in 1898 in United States [...]

Oral arguments began in federal court on Wednesday in a case between a coalition of news organizations led by The New York Times and OpenAI, the creator of the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which alleges copyright infringement by OpenAI’s use of copyrighted material for machine learning. The case centers on allegations that OpenAI unlawfully utilized [...]