Recent Updates
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
Courts and the Judiciary 01/18/2025Florida 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...
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Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds
Courts and the Judiciary 01/14/2025At 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...
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
Courts and the Judiciary 01/05/2025President-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 ...
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Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals
Courts and the Judiciary 01/01/2025A 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...
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Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board
Courts and the Judiciary 12/13/2024North 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’ ...
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Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote
Courts and the Judiciary 12/06/2024A 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...
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Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after ‘alarming blood test,’ attorney says
Courts and the Judiciary 12/02/2024Harvey 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...
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PA high court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race
Courts and the Judiciary 11/22/2024Pennsylvania’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...
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High court won’t review Kari Lake’s appeal over 2022 governor’s race defeat
Courts and the Judiciary 11/08/2024The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear Republican Kari Lake’s latest appeal over her defeat in the 2022 governor’s race, marking yet another loss in her attempt to overturn the race’s outcome.The court made its refusal to ta...
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VA asks US Supreme Court to reinstate removals of 1,600 voter registrations
Courts and the Judiciary 10/26/2024Virginia on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens.The request comes after a federal appeals court on Sunday unanimously upheld a federal judg...
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Kenya’s deputy president pleads not guilty in impeachment process
Courts and the Judiciary 10/22/2024Kenya’s deputy president, who faces impeachment, pleaded not guilty in a senate hearing Wednesday to all allegations including corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the count...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
Courts and the Judiciary 10/11/2024Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company reaped after monopolizing the market for the medication and drastically increasing its price. His lawyers argued that the money went to his company rather than him...