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  • US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection

    US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection

    Courts and the Judiciary 03/30/2025

    U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Dona...

  • Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

    Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

    Courts and the Judiciary 03/07/2025

    A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.By a 5-4 vote, the court’s co...

  • Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM

    Officers plead guilty in DWI police corruption probe in Albuquerque, NM

    Courts and the Judiciary 02/08/2025

    Two former Albuquerque police officers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of racketeering, extortion and accepting bribes in a sweeping corruption investigation into a scheme that allegedly allowed people arrested for driving while intoxicated ...

  • Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

    Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

    Courts and the Judiciary 02/03/2025

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest wa...

  • 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...

  • 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’ ...

  • 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...

  • 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...