Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Wednesday voided a federal law preventing unlawful drug users from possessing guns, citing the Supreme Court‘s landmark decision from last year. Under a federal statute known as 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), anyone who is an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” including…

Former President Donald Trump‘s third co-defendant, Carlos De Oliveira, is slated to be arraigned Thursday morning in Florida to enter a plea for charges added July 27 to an indictment in the classified documents case. Trump has said he will not attend the arraignment hearing at 10:30 a.m. at the Alto Lee Adam Adams Sr.…

In a seemingly bipartisan alignment with Democratic lawmakers and former President Donald Trump‘s legal counsel, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee said they want cameras allowed into the courtroom when Trump appears in the federal cases against him. A spokesperson for the GOP-led committee told the Washington Examiner Wednesday that they “support cameras in this…

Donald Trump‘s legal counsel is requesting the judge presiding over his classified documents case allow the government to re-create a secure location at Mar-a-Lago where the former president can convene with his lawyers. The team of Justice Department prosecutors led by special counsel Jack Smith have sought to block Trump from releasing any classified materials…

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon rejected a request by the media on Tuesday to bring electronic devices inside the courtroom amid calls for heightened transparency over former President Donald Trump‘s legal cases. Attorneys for Trump and co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira are slated to appear Thursday morning in Florida federal court to enter…

A federal appeals court granted an injunction to block President Joe Biden’s new rules that intend to make it easier for student borrowers to have their debts relieved if they were misled or defrauded by a university. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit granted an injunction request by…

A federal judge will allow the so-called Access Hollywood tape to be played at the defamation trial against former President Donald Trump brought by E. Jean Carroll, a New Yorker who claims he raped her nearly three decades ago. The 23-page opinion issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the New York borough…

The release of new tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Tucker Carlson‘s Fox News show could create a major legal headache for the Department of Justice‘s handling of cases against hundreds of defendants, according to legal experts. A lawyer representing one of five Proud Boys members on trial for seditious conspiracy referenced Carlson’s…

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Florida can ban adults under 21 years of age from purchasing guns, upholding a state law enacted weeks after the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled unanimously that the Supreme Court’s recent landmark…