Author: Jack Birle, Washington Examiner

Texas officials urged the Supreme Court to deny emergency petitions filed by a pair of activist groups to stop the implementation of the Lone Star State’s law requiring app stores to verify users’ ages. The Supreme Court is considering a pair of emergency petitions filed by Students Engaged in Advancing Texas, a left-wing education activist…

The Supreme Court will weigh whether an inmate can sue prison officials for allegedly not giving adequate medical treatment following a prison riot, a possibly key case for determining the scope of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishments. The high court announced that it will hear the case Nielsen v. Watanabe in…

Former Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was denied her last-ditch effort to toss her conviction on obstruction charges for helping an illegal immigrant evade arrest Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, denied Dugan’s motion, finding that she was unable to “satisfy the burden required for reconsideration” of a jury’s December…

The Supreme Court announced it would take up a case deciding whether the federal government can hold criminal immigrants in detention indefinitely pending removal, adding to the immigration cases the high court has heard in recent years. The high court said Monday that it would hear the case Genalo v. Black, part of an orders…

A federal court declined to halt the UFC fight on the White House South Lawn this weekend, denying a lawsuit from two Virginia residents filed a week ahead of the event. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, denied an effort to halt the UFC Freedom 250 event, which is set…

A federal judge maintained a block on the Department of Justice’s $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund Friday, despite the DOJ claiming they have abandoned the planned fund aimed at compensating allies of President Donald Trump and others who say they were politically targeted by the DOJ during the Biden administration. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, an appointee of former…

President Donald Trump will have the opportunity to nominate another judge to a key federal appeals court after one of the judges announced this week that he would take senior status. Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt, who was nominated to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals by Trump in 2018, told the White House in a…

The Supreme Court is weeks away from ending its term, but it still has to release rulings in nearly two dozen cases, including some of the most closely watched legal fights it heard since the fall. Over the next month, the high court is set to issue rulings in cases dealing with state laws barring…

The Supreme Court handed the Federal Communications Commission a victory on Thursday, upholding its ability to penalize telecommunications companies by finding that its scheme for levying fines is constitutional. The high court ruled 8-1 in favor of the federal agency in the consolidated cases FCC v. AT&T and Verizon Communications v. FCC. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the…

A federal appeals court ruled on Monday against the Trump administration’s policy of barring transgender troops from the military, finding the policy was arbitrary and implemented with animus. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found 2-1 that the Department of War’s January 2025 policy, which held that people…