The ACLU and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland announced Friday that they intend to appeal a Lancaster County district court ruling in favor of a Nebraska law restricting both abortions and gender-affirming healthcare to the Nebraska Supreme Court. The suit centers around the Nebraska state constitution’s one-subject clause, which restricts the purview of laws to [...]

A group of former Republican legal officials filed an amicus brief Monday in support of a January 2024 trial date in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference criminal case. The amicus brief cites the Speedy Trial Act and Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution to justify the need for a speedy resolution. The brief [...]

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he would be appointing a special counsel to oversee the ongoing criminal case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden is accused of tax and firearms offenses. Garland stated that David Weiss would be taking over the case United States v. Robert Hunter Biden and [...]

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin to help Ukraine with its ongoing Russian war crime investigations and assist the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is a major policy reversal, as the Department of Defense (DOD) previously blocked cooperation with the ICC in relation to its [...]

US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed former President Donald Trump’s counter-defamation suit against author E. Jean Carroll on Monday. Carroll has accused Trump of sexual assault, with a jury finding that Trump did sexually assault Carroll and defamed Carroll by accusing her of lying. Trump claimed that Carroll’s statements on CNN after the verdict [...]

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao was sentenced to 57 months in prison on Monday for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the death of George Floyd during an attempted detainment of Floyd by Minneapolis Police in 2020. Thao was given time to speak during a portion of the hearing that was not recorded, with CNN [...]

Travis County District Judge Jessica Mangrum issued a temporary injunctive order Friday, blocking a Texas abortion ban from being applied to people with pregnancy complications. However, mere hours later the Texas state attorney general’s office appealed the order to the Texas State Supreme Court, putting the ban fully back into place until the State Supreme [...]

Jack Smith, the Special Prosecutor handling former President Donald Trump’s case related to the January 6th Insurrection and alleged election interference, filed a motion Friday requesting a protective order to prevent Trump from making public some evidentiary materials due to statements made on Trump’s social media. In the motion, Smith argued that “f the defendant [...]

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. Judge James Dennis writing for the majority, discussed the racial history of the Mississippi Constitution that was ratified in 1890, writing, “From the outset, the object of [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit Monday attempting to block the Oklahoma from opening the US’s first religious charter school. The proposed charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, would be run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. The suit, filed by the ACLU on behalf of several Oklahoma residents, [...]