The Supreme Court sounded deeply skeptical Tuesday about a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors, suggesting the justices may scuttle the statute and similar restrictions in nearly 30 states.
A federal judge late Sunday dealt another blow to the Trump administration’s plans to send troops to Portland after a weekend of heated confrontations between protesters and federal agents there, temporarily blocking hundreds of California National Guard members as they were deploying to Oregon’s biggest city over objections from Democratic governors in both states.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms, turning away an appeal that accused Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of radicalizing a man who killed nine South Carolina churchgoers.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction for grooming teenage girls who were abused by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced Friday to just over 4 years in prison, after a lengthy hearing during which Combs apologized to the ex-girlfriends who had accused him of sex trafficking, as well as years of emotional and physical abuse.
The 29-year-old Californian who flew across the country to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday.
Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg admonished U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s staff to remain civil in court proceedings, expressing concern Friday about an escalating dispute between prosecutors and a federal magistrate judge.
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear a challenge to Hawaii’s limits on where people can carry firearms, a case that could have significant implications for gun rights and restrictions across the country.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook can remain in her job for now and announced it will take up a high-stakes case over President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove her from the central bank.
A federal judge on Tuesday disqualified President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in Nevada, ruling that she had been unlawfully appointed—the second court ruling in as many months to cast doubt on the Justice Department’s novel strategy for retaining the president’s most controversial appointees in top prosecutorial roles.
