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  • Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat

    Courts and the Judiciary 01/18/2025

    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.Elected as the state’s top law enforcemen...

  • Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds

    Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds

    Courts and the Judiciary 01/14/2025

    At a time of heightened political division, Americans’ confidence in their country’s judicial system and courts dropped to a record low of 35% this year, according to a new Gallup poll.The United States saw a sharp drop of 24 percentage p...

  • TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech

    TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech

    Top Stories & Analysis 01/10/2025

    In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United St...

  • Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case

    Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case

    Courts and the Judiciary 01/05/2025

    President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone ...

  • Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    Courts and the Judiciary 01/01/2025

    A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after determining prosecutors made racially discriminatory statements during the Black man’s trial.The retired football player was sent...

  •  Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board

    Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board

    Courts and the Judiciary 12/13/2024

    North Carolina’s elections board dismissed formal protests Wednesday by several Republican candidates who trailed narrowly in their races last month and had questioned well over 60,000 ballots cast this fall.The State Board of Elections’ ...

  • Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance

    Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance

    Top Stories & Analysis 12/09/2024

    The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.The justices, acting in a case from Eau Claire, left in place an appellate ruling dis...

  • Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote

    Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote

    Courts and the Judiciary 12/06/2024

    A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.The Constitutional Co...

  • Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after ‘alarming blood test,’ attorney says

    Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after ‘alarming blood test,’ attorney says

    Courts and the Judiciary 12/02/2024

    Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Monday following an “alarming blood test,” his attorney said, less than a week after the disgraced movie mogul filed a legal claim alleging substandard medical care at New York City’s notorious jail...

  • Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on US-Mexico border

    Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on US-Mexico border

    Top Stories & Analysis 11/28/2024

    A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass, which has become the center of the state’s aggressive measures to curb migrant cro...

  • PA high court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race

    PA high court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race

    Courts and the Judiciary 11/22/2024

    Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court on Monday weighed in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, ordering counties not to count mail-in ballots that...

  • South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law

    South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law

    Top Stories & Analysis 11/15/2024

    South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign.If...