Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

A U.S. appeals court judge agreed to an expedited review of suspended Florida state attorney Andrew Warren’s appeal in his federal suit against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). The brief order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit sets an accelerated review of the former prosecutor’s case against DeSantis, who is largely considered…

Two Democratic lawmakers asked an ex-federal judge who reviewed the investigation into the leak of the Supreme Court‘s draft abortion opinion to provide them with more information about the role he played in the inquiry after it was reported he had financial ties to the court. In a letter addressed to Michael Chertoff, a former…

The Southern Poverty Law Center defended one of its staff attorneys after he was charged with a felony count of domestic terrorism near Atlanta, Georgia, after a violent protest of the development of a police training center. Staff attorney Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, was one of 23 people charged with domestic terrorism on Sunday for…

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was honored during a ceremony Monday marking the renaming of a street near where she was raised in Miami-Dade County, Florida. “It was while I was studying and competing and growing up here in this community that I gained self-confidence in the face of challenges,” Jackson said during a…

An attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group known for labeling conservative and Christian nonprofit organizations as “hate groups,” was arrested Sunday on terrorism charges after allegedly taking part in a riot where agitators threw objects, including Molotov cocktails, at a police training center near Atlanta. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation…

Texas lawmakers may be on a path to passing bipartisan legislation which aims to cut off a loophole in a 2009 law that’s meant to prevent people with a history of mental health issues from obtaining firearms. A bill by state Sen. Joan Huffman, which would require courts to report information about involuntary mental health…

The Justice Department declined an opening from a Washington, D.C., federal judge to weigh in on whether abortion is constitutionally protected under the 13th Amendment. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton who is presiding over a criminal case, asked parties last month to submit filings on whether the Supreme…

One of New York City‘s oldest Orthodox Jewish universities is at risk of losing public funding if they don’t recognize an LGBT club, according to a letter sent to school officials this week by the city’s Comptroller Brad Lander. The request stems from a New York County Supreme Court order last summer telling Yeshiva University…

The Supreme Court on Thursday requested additional briefings over a major election law challenging stemming from North Carolina, a signal that the justices might punt on a Republican-backed legal theory that proponents said could limit state courts’ oversight of federal election rules. Parties involved in the case were asked to file new court documents on…

The Supreme Court appeared poised to allow New Jersey‘s request to exit a decades-old interstate agreement after New York objected to it leaving the interstate pact. Known as the Waterfront Commission, it was established in the 1950s to combat corrupt labor practices and go after mobs at the New York-New Jersey container port. The agreement…