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Federal prosecutors in Washington are battling court motions from three activists aimed at throwing out their guilty verdicts from an anti-deportation riot. Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pennell has scheduled a Nov. 24 hearing to review arguments about whether protesters Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla should get acquittals or new trials, court records […]
The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court over claims that a list of more than 20,000 ballots in California include non-US citizens. Multiple courts and independent analysis have rejected the claims.
California says any move to block ballots from suspected noncitizens could disenfranchise eligible voters.
With 73% of voters dissatisfied with the economy, candidates made their final pitches ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. President Trump campaigned in Iowa and Kansas while Democrats clashed in Michigan. NBC News' Maggie Vespa reports.
The Archdiocese of Denver and Catholic preschools said they were unlawfully excluded from Colorado's universal preschool program over their refusal to admit students from LGBTQ families.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday in its push to sideline thousands of disputed California mail ballots the day before the pivotal midterm elections. The emergency appeal came after an appeals court rejected the request to set aside some 20,000 ballots from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens. The federal government says those ballots should not be counted until the voters' status can be...
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to intervene on Monday in its fight over California’s voter rolls, seeking an emergency order separating mail ballots associated with more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens one day before Election Day. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to order California to set those ballots aside immediately while […]
The Trump administration made a last-ditch plea to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to force California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots it claims were sent to noncitizens.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to mandate that California separate ballots of more than 20,000 voters the government suspects are "likely" non-citizens. The big picture: A federal appeals court rejected the administration's bid to set aside mail ballots last week, erecting another roadblock in the DOJ's pre-election quest to demand the state root out claims of voter fraud in the final days of the midterm elections. This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
In an emergency application, administration lawyers asked the justices to immediately order California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in its effort to force California to set aside mail ballots from thousands of people it claims are not U.S. citizens.
The Trump administration on Monday brought its demand that California separate 20,000 mail ballots it says belong to likely noncitizens to the Supreme Court, thrusting the justices back into the center of the midterm campaign one day before Election Day. Lower courts have ruled the list isn’t credible and the Trump administration has no authority to…
The appeal by the Trump administration comes days ahead of the midterm election, and after federal judges have rejected the bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots.
Lawyers file opposition to Trump’s request, telling supreme court justices they do not need ‘to bail out this president’ E Jean Carroll’s lawyers are fighting Donald Trump’s efforts to toss her $83m damages verdict in the US supreme court, telling the justices that they do not need “to bail out this president from the consequences of his repeated litigation choices”. Jurors delivered Carroll the huge award on 26 January 2024, less than one year after the journalist and author won $5m in her sexual abuse and defamation case against Trump. The president has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing in relation to Carroll. Continue reading...
On the eve of the Nov. 3 election, the Trump administration is hoping the Supreme Court will reverse lower courts that rejected its request to order California to set aside the ballots of thousands of people it says are "likely" noncitizens.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has given the government the go-ahead to hold peace talks, signaling a potential diplomatic opening as fears of a renewed conflict with the US and Israel grow.
Judge Michael Riordan last week issued a restraining order against Benson’s rule, which seems to be in conflict with federal election law.
From Commonwealth v. Outlaw, decided Thursday by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht, writing for a unanimous court: In June… The post Some Surprisingly Tolerant Judges out There in Pennsylvania appeared first on Reason Magazine.
From Judge Mia Roberts Perez (E.D. Pa.) in Souderton Area for All v. Souderton Area School Dist., decided Sept. 28:… The post Promise to Apologize Might Be Enforceable—but Court Can't Order Apology if None Was Finally Agreed to appeared first on Reason Magazine.
This week, the Court will consider when a death-row inmate may file a second habeas application based on “a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable.”
11/2/2010: Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: November 2, 2010 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Repeated compliance disputes and personal attacks on judges are straining relations between the executive branch and the judiciary.
Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, once told a group of prominent lawyers that his government will need to embrace a militant-style democracy to restore the rule of law after eight years of nationalist rule.
The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to consider whether to hold an immigrant rights group in contempt of court for disclosing the results of its analysis of a dataset of alleged noncitizens registered to vote in California
The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to consider whether to hold an immigrant rights group in contempt of court for disclosing the results of its analysis of a dataset of alleged noncitizens registered to vote in California
Attorneys for an immigrant rights group on Saturday filed court papers revealing that their analysis found more than 40% of the people on the list do not appear in the state's voter file.
‘The court dismissed the case on procedural grounds but did not dispute the argument’
The intersection of religious and LGBTQ rights lands — again — on the Supreme Court’s docket Tuesday. The justices are set to decide whether Colorado can require preschools that receive public dollars to admit the children of same-sex couples. “It seems like there’s short shrift being given to religious liberty in the state of Colorado,”…
The court found the administration lacked standing to bring the suit. But there are also major substantive problems with Trump's position.
For more than a month this summer, the nation was transfixed by a trial taking place at the Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts. It was the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother charged with filicide. She is accused of strangling her three young children in January 2023, right before she attempted suicide. The case itself […]
National groups are spending money in battleground judicial races with the hope of liberal majorities in two years.
Voters are turning against the Republicans. But the clearest possible message is needed to safeguard democracy The psychologist Jennifer Freyd identified a pattern often used by perpetrators: deny, accuse, and reverse victim and offender. More than one observer has noted that Donald Trump employs that pattern politically. With polls suggesting Republicans are likely to lose the House and perhaps the Senate too in the midterms, the man who refused to accept Americans’ democratic verdict in 2020 is hawking a narrative of cheating Democrats who will steal seats via illegitimate votes. The January 6 insurrection showed how acute the peril to American democracy had become. It is more so now. This time, Republican efforts to undermine the results began well in advance. In 2020, Mr Trump’s vice-president, Mike Pence, the attorney general, William Barr, and others refused his most outrageous demands; now the justice department is supine. And the supreme court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act , which safeguarded against the worst kinds of racial discrimination, means that states no longer require pre-approval for decisions that could well tilt a race. Districts have already been redrawn. Continue reading...
He had originally canceled the in-person appearances in favor of tele-rallies, only to reverse course Sign up for the Breaking News US email Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump is making stops in Iowa and Kansas to throw support behind Republicans in competitive Senate races with just two days remaining before the midterm elections. He had originally canceled the in-person appearances in favor of tele-rallies, only to reverse course on Friday. Abdul El-Sayed , the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s tightly fought Senate race, wants Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens to stay away from his campaign events. The two had planned to appear together Sunday at a church service in Detroit, but Representative Debbie Dingell later told CNN she had spoken to Stevens and told her, “This isn’t working.” A US judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal with prejudice on Saturday, according to a court filing, bringing an end to his legal challenge over the newspaper’s reporting on his alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein . Continue reading...
President Donald Trump’s red state blitz ahead of election day barrels on with rallies set in Iowa and Kansas. The the Trump administration is also fighting for more control over elections in court. Meanwhile, with control of the Senate is hinging on a handful of states, Democrats are dealing with a feud in Michigan. NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports for Sunday TODAY.
“It is only a matter of time” before the International Criminal Court interferes with “American military and law enforcement operations,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned in July. Convinced that such meddling would “mean the death of the United States as a sovereign and independent nation,” Rubio promised that the U.S. would use “all the…
On the eve of midterms, President Trump is facing setbacks left and right in his push to investigate alleged election fraud . But in Georgia, he has an opening. Why it matters: Six years ago, Georgia was at the epicenter of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Now the state's own election board has invited his administration to investigate its voting system. Georgia features two high-stakes statewide campaigns: Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) against Rep. Mike Collins (R) for Senate, and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) against businessman Rick Jackson (R) for governor. The big picture: The Justice Department disclosed in court on Friday that the administration has sent letters to officials in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada, asking some states to segregate mail-in ballots from suspected noncitizen voters. A federal judge on Friday issued an emergency order that blocks federal officials from threatening to charge election officials who count ballots from voters the DOJ claims are ineligible. In October, a federal judge restricted the Department of Homeland Security's investigations into suspected noncitizen voters. But Georgia is different . "We've managed with duct tape and bubble gum to be able to bootstrap our way through one last round, but that's not a way of running elections," a Georgia election official told Axios. Georgia's State Election Board asked the Justice and Homeland Security departments to review and potentially investigate the state's voting system and handling of election data. The Sept. 30 letter cited outdated software, threats to ballot secrecy and QR-code ballots it says may violate the Help America Vote Act. A DOJ spokesperson said in response to the letter: "We take seriously allegations that election officials have failed to adequately maintain election equipment and otherwise comply with federal law. We are evaluating the request and will investigate and, if appropriate, bring an enforce
11/1/1961: Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut opens center in New Haven, CT. The post Today in Supreme Court History: November 1, 1961 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
The Archdiocese of Denver wants to be able to turn away LGBTQ families from Catholic preschools that receive state funding.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s Republican-run state government on Saturday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump’s direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that state’s pivotal U.S. Senate race, writing that there is “no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit any […]
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin ordered both sides to talk and to agree on a proposed briefing schedule on the motion for a temporary restraining order by Saturday evening.
Voters in half of the country will decide who sits on the bench of their state’s highest court next Tuesday. State Supreme Court races are on ballot in two dozen states this November, with partisan, nonpartisan and retention contests determining which candidates win seats or remain on the bench of courts that often have the final word…
The court concludes that Trump hadn't adequately alleged facts supporting a showing that the Journal published the article knowing that it was likely false.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk defended the decision to suspend top court judges and accused the opposition of resorting to violence in an attempt to destroy the rule-of-law.
Federal judges have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration's efforts to wrest control over state voting processes and intimidate state and local elections officials.
A Michigan man was charged Friday with allegedly threatening the life of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel and “his associate.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Michigan said in a news release that 42-year-old Anthony Daniel Palazzolo was arrested and appeared in federal court on Friday after he sent…
Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch are mounting even as its construction is imminent The legal challenges to Donald Trump ’s proposed memorial arch are mounting, with the District of Columbia and Virginia suing in federal court on Saturday as the administration says construction could begin as early as next week. There are now three lawsuits calling for a halt to potential work on a monument that would rise 250ft (76 meters) on a patch of grass off the bridge that spans the Potomac River, connecting the city with the Arlington national cemetery. That would make the arch 100ft taller (30 meters) than the Statue of Liberty is from its base to the top of the torch. Continue reading...
Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Saturday in a last-ditch effort to stop the construction of the triumphal arch planned for Memorial Circle in Washington.
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