Courts & Law
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Supreme Court allows Voting Rights ruling to take effect immediately
Supporters of the Supreme Court ruling urged the court to allow it to take effect immediately so Louisiana has time to redraw the maps, but opponents urged the court to push it until after the election because voting in the primary had begun.
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Musk to pay $1.5 million civil penalty to SEC in X dispute
The SEC sued Musk last year, alleging he failed to properly disclose his purchase of Twitter stock in 2022, thereby underpaying its investors.
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DC judge apologizes to alleged White House correspondents' dinner shooter for jail treatment
Cole Tomas Allen, a resident of Torrance, California, was placed under suicide watch at the D.C. jail because he allegedly told the FBI that he expected to die during the shooting.
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Abortion pill provider asks Supreme Court to block lower court ruling blocking access to drug
The company makes Mifeprex, which is an abortion pill that blocks a hormone called progesterone that is needed for a pregnancy to continue
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Accused Pentagon classified documents leaker Teixeira to be arraigned Friday
Teixeria is reportedly a systems operator or IT worker who allegedly uploaded hundreds of pages of sensitive documents into a Discord group chat
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Clarence Thomas did not disclose real estate deal with GOP megadonor: report
Crow indicated he believed the property to be of historical value, given that the justice grew up there.
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San Francisco police make arrest in killing of Cash App founder, suspect worked in tech, report
The arrest was made in Emeryville, in the Bay Area, north of San Francisco, where Lee was killed.
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Justice Department to appeal abortion pill restrictions to Supreme Court
The case was expected to be submitted to the high court almost immediately after the first ruling last week.
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Appeals court upholds access to abortion drug while tightening rules
The 2-1 vote from the New Orleans judges narrowed the Texas judge's ruling.
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Babylon Bee sues California over censorship law
"It’s a good thing when people are allowed to speak freely," Dillon wrote. "It’s a bad thing when Big Tech and the government work together to decide what we’re allowed to say."
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Former Obama AG Holder threatened to sue Tennessee if ousted lawmakers weren't reinstated
The pair "should be promptly sworn back in as members of the General Assembly and granted the same benefits, rights, duties, and liberties as any other member," he wrote.
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Legal argument by Dem election superlawyer will aid GOP challenge, 'upend' Arizona AG race: Hamadeh
GOP nominee Abe Hamadeh fell just 280 votes short of winning, but at least 1,200 provisional ballots cast by high-propensity voters were "erroneously rejected," calculates state's former assistant attorney general.
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COVID vaccine fraud prosecution could force feds to share correlated deaths data: targeted doc
Advised by vaccine-skeptic philanthropist Steve Kirsch, Utah's Kirk Moore plans to use legal discovery to get records government has refused to make public.