With a new state law set to kick in Monday requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom in Texas, many school districts this week are scrambling to figure out what to do. Some are holding off following a federal judge’s recent ruling against the mandate. Others are racing to fundraise for donated posters of the commandments.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 judgment in 1989 that burning the U.S. flag as a form of protest is a constitutionally protected right under the First Amendment. President Donald Trump in his Monday executive order urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to find a case that could challenge that ruling. Here’s what to know about the legality of flag-burning in the United States.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in New Jersey, is in that role “without lawful authority”—a decision that called into question the administration’s novel strategy for keeping her and other controversial interim choices in top prosecutorial roles.
Frank Caprio, the Rhode Island jurist whose compassion in the courtroom found him fame on TV and online, earning him the nickname “the nicest judge in the world,” has died. He was 88.
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has sued President Donald Trump over his executive actions asserting control over the D.C. police department and attempting to install an emergency police commissioner, one of the most extraordinary exertions of federal power in the city’s half-century of home rule.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for now for a Mississippi law that requires age verification to use social media and parental consent before minors can create accounts, a setback for the technology group that challenged the measure.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration can withhold tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid, handing the president a significant—if possibly temporary—victory in his push to exercise greater authority over spending mandated by Congress.
A federal judge in New York denied the Justice Department’s request to release grand jury transcripts from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, on Monday. The ruling cited that the circumstances of the case do not merit breaking the secrecy of grand jury proceedings.
President Donald Trump hailed the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in June to limit nationwide court injunctions as a “great win,” one that could open a path for his administration to begin enforcing an executive order to end birthright citizenship that had been enjoined by three lower court judges.
The Justice Department is intensifying its legal battle against New York Attorney General Letitia James, issuing at least two subpoenas to James in recent days, according to three people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an investigation.
