The US Supreme Court granted review Monday in Brown v. Davenport, a case that will decide how harmless error review is applied in federal habeas petitions. The case arises out of a Michigan court that shackled a criminal defendant during a trial. State courts concluded that shackling him violated the Constitution, but that the error [...]
Federal officials arrested two men on Monday for assaulting police officer Brian Sicknick during the riots at the Capitol on January 6. Sicknick later died from the injuries. According to the criminal complaint, Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of West Virginia, were caught on video “working together to assault [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments Monday in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., a case that intersects patent law, administrative law and the separation of powers. The question before the court is whether administrative patent judges of the US Patent and Trademark Office should be considered “principal officers” who must receive both presidential appointment [...]
The US Supreme Court granted review Monday in cases ranging from reproductive healthcare funding to the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 and also rejected a challenge to the 2020 election. The court granted review of three cases that it consolidated: American Medical Association v. Cochran, Cochran v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and Oregon v. Cochran. [...]
Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Chair of the US House Homeland Security Committee, filed a lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, Rudy Guiliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, alleging a conspiracy between the four to prevent Members of Congress from discharging their official duties. The lawsuit, which Thompson filed as a private citizen rather than [...]
David Correia, a former business associate of Rudy Guiliani, was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in federal prison, having pleaded guilty to a charge of defrauding investors. Correia was accused of collecting investments ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 for a start-up company, Fraud Guarantee. Correia, along with Lev Parnas, is accused of [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his first court appearance since May on Monday to enter a plea of not guilty to an indictment alleging corruption and misconduct. The case began with a police investigation in 2016, and an indictment was issued in 2019. Netanyahu faces a wide array of corruption charges arising from separate investigations. The charges [...]
A spokesperson for former US president Donald Trump confirmed Saturday evening that five lawyers who intended to defend the ex-president in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial would be stepping down. On Sunday evening, Trump’s office announced that two new lawyers would be joining the team just a little over a week before the trial is [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Friday that the city of Boston did not violate the First Amendment when it denied a private group’s request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole at the city hall. Over the course of the last 12 years, the city approved 284 flag-raising events [...]
The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had indicted 14 of the world’s highest-ranking members of the MS-13 gang, charging them with the following: conspiracy to provide and conceal material support to terrorists, conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, conspiracy to finance terrorism and narco-terrorism conspiracy in connection with [...]
