Courts & Law
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Former gang leader sentenced to 40 years in prison for 1996 murder of iconic rapper Tupac Shakur
Former Los Angeles gang leader Duane "Keffe D" Davis was convicted of orchestrating the murder in August, but was not accused of pulling the trigger on the gun that killed Shakur in Las Vegas.
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Supreme Court agrees to hear lawsuit seeking records about Elon Musk's government-cutting DOGE
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argues that DOGE is a federal agency, making it subject to the Freedom of Information Act, and the Trump administration argues that, as a presidential advisory body, DOGE is exempt from the law.
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Search of Ilhan Omar’s home raises prospect of legal consequences for squad lawmaker
Federal probe focuses on immigration history, opening potential legal and denaturalization risks for the Minnesota lawmaker.
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Abortion-rights demonstrators temporarily disrupt Supreme Court
Three people stood up in the courtroom within the first few minutes of Wednesday's session.
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Federal judge curtails Arizona drop box monitoring, limiting armed watchers, ending videos of voters
The same judge initially declined to prohibit the elections monitoring group from watching drop boxes.
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NY prosecutors present Trump-signed lease to jury in fraud case against Trump Organization
Prosecutors allege that the Trump Organization provided its top leadership with certain perks to lessen their tax burden.
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Judge keeps Alec Baldwin as defendant in negligence suit over 'Rust' shooting
Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming for "Rust."
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court bars counting incorrectly dated absentee ballots
The Republican Party had sued Pennsylvania Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman in her official capacity over the matter.
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Arizona AG Brnovich asks SCOTUS to uphold death penalty for convicted cop-killer
At issue is Cruz's assertion that he was not allowed to inform the jury that he would have been ineligible for parole under a life sentence.
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Supreme Court rejects Sen. Graham's attempt to avoid subpoena to testify in Georgia election probe
The court said Graham cannot be questioned about protected legislative activity.
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Radical feminists raise alarm about lawyer speech code that enforces gender ideology
Women's Liberation Front joins others in court challenging Pennsylvania's implementation of American Bar Association "model rule" as First Amendment violation.
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Alan Dershowitz says that the system of holistic admission kept Jews out of Harvard
"Harvard invented this system of holistically looking at people and judging their character and they did it for a particular purpose," Dershowitz said.
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Judge orders True the Vote leaders detained for contempt of court
Marshals escorted the pair from the courtroom to a holding cell after they refused on Monday to name the other individual present at the meeting.