Recent Updates
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Military lawyers will serve as immigration judges as courts face massive backlog
Criminal Law 09/12/2025Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.The military will begin sending groups of 150 atto...
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Washington, Oregon and California governors form a health alliance
Criminal Law 09/03/2025The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the...
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‘Ketamine Queen’ pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry
Criminal Law 08/28/2025A woman branded as the “Ketamine Queen” pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, becoming the fifth and final defendant charged in Perry’s overdose death to admit guilt.Jasveen Sangha pleaded guilt...
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Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts
Political and Legal 08/23/2025Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’s demands.For months, Powell has largely ign...
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Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
Bankruptcy Law 08/20/2025A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were tr...
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Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s detention center
Personal Injury 08/04/2025A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates e...
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Appellate judges question Trump’s authority to impose tariffs without Congress
Criminal Law 08/01/2025Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs.Members of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ap...
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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
Legal Business 07/24/2025A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump and Republican leadersh...
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Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees
Court Watch 07/16/2025The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday...
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Georgia appeals court upholds ruling saying election officials must certify results
Family Law 07/10/2025A Georgia appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that said county election officials in the state must vote to certify results according to deadlines set in law.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had ruled in October that &ldqu...
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US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling
Family Law 07/06/2025Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended...
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Judge dismisses the lawsuit against ‘It Ends With Us’ costar Blake Lively
Court Watch 06/11/2025A judge on Monday dismissed the lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni filed against his “It Ends With Us” costar Blake Lively after she sued him last year for sexual harassment and retaliation.U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Lima...