ATLANTA—The Georgia Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis’s appeal of a lower-court decision that disqualified her from the criminal racketeering case against President Donald Trump and several allies charged with illegally conspiring to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state.

Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who handled cases against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday for firing her allegedly because her father is disliked by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump can fire a Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission while a lawsuit challenging her removal continues, Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled on Monday.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett downplayed President Donald Trump’s sharp barbs directed at federal judges, telling a New York crowd that U.S. presidents have a long history of criticizing the judiciary.

At least 100 people have been scheduled to appear in D.C. Superior Court each of the past three Mondays, a spike in the wake of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on D.C. crime and top D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro’s order to always file the stiffest charges possible. In recent years, the U.S. attorney’s office has declined to prosecute about half the arrests made by police.

The U.S. judge in Boston who blocked the Trump administration from cutting off billions in federal research funding from Harvard University had a message for Justice Neil Gorsuch: Back off.

A federal appellate court ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump unlawfully invoked a centuries-old wartime law to swiftly deport Venezuelan migrants, blocking one of his administration’s most contentious immigration initiatives and teeing up a legal battle sure to end up before the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has already expanded President Donald Trump’s authority in a string of emergency rulings, but in his firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and other issues probably headed to the court, he’s signaling that he continues to seek broader powers for the executive branch.

President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement on the streets of D.C. is meeting resistance in the city’s federal courthouse, where magistrate judges have admonished prosecutors for violating defendants’ rights and court rules, and grand jurors have repeatedly refused to issue indictments.