Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to permit a federal judge in Louisiana from moving ahead on plans to oversee the drawing of a new state congressional map that could be used in next year’s general election. The justices rejected an emergency request by civil rights groups who say a Republican-drawn map used in the…

Former President Donald Trump 2020 election campaign attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to criminal charges in Fulton County Thursday morning. Her plea came during a live-streamed court hearing Thursday morning, just days before a criminal trial is slated for Oct. 23 with co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro. This is a developing story and will be updated. Original…

Devon Archer, a former business associate of Hunter Biden convicted of defrauding a Native American tribe, is appealing the ruling to the highest court in the land. Archer in 2018 was sentenced to a year and one day in prison by a federal grand jury in New York for fraudulently issuing and selling more than…

Elon Musk and Mark Cuban, two names not often connected to the Seventh Amendment, filed a joint amicus brief at the Supreme Court challenging the legitimacy of in-house trials at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Supreme Court is slated to consider a case in late November that raises constitutional questions over the use of…

The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump‘s criminal trial in Washington, D.C., revealed her gag order on Monday and said it intends to block “grave threats” ahead of an eventual jury trial. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan found that despite Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, the former president’s “statements pose sufficiently grave threats to…

The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower court order and allowed the Biden administration‘s ghost gun regulations to take effect. The request was initially filed to Justice Samuel Alito and referred to the full court, according to an order on Monday vacating a Texas-based federal judge’s ruling against President Joe Biden‘s ghost gun rules.…

A federal judge is refusing to hire law students as clerks if they’ve signed onto letters that he says effectively amount to support for Hamas‘s deadly assault on Israel. Judge Matthew Solomson of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims made his vow in an Oct. 11 LinkedIn post, saying his decision is moral, not political.…

Former President Donald Trump received a limited gag order in the criminal election interference case in Washington, D.C., blocking him from making statements publicly targeting prosecutors, court staff or their families, or about witnesses or their testimony. Federal prosecutors led by special counsel Jack Smith succeeded in federal district court Monday on arguments that Trump…

President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Biden, plans to plead not guilty to three federal gun charges, his attorney Abbe Lowell wrote in a court filing Tuesday. The younger Biden was charged last week with three felony gun charges tied to owning a firearm while using or being addicted to narcotics. He was previously arraigned for…

Democrats are once again floating a bill for Supreme Court term limits, a measure that could put the longest-serving justice, Clarence Thomas, into senior status if passed. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, reintroduced the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act on Tuesday, the same bill he proposed…