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Records reveal that Democratic donors disbursed at least $1.7 million to cover legal fees incurred by President Joe Biden during the investigation into his handling of classified documents. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) engaged a firm and an attorney on behalf of the president. President Biden has criticized his likely election rival, former President Donald…
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The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took a significant step by voting to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a contentious surveillance program crucial for the country’s foreign intelligence operations. The bill passed with a vote of 273-147 and now heads to the Senate for expected bipartisan approval before the program’s…
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A New York appeals judge denied Donald Trump’s third attempt this week to delay his April 15 trial. Trump’s lawyer argued for a delay because the judge overseeing the case hadn’t ruled on their request for him to step down. The lawyer also contended that the judge erred in refusing to bar prosecutors from presenting…
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A California judge is set to decide on May 10 whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed to trial for a woman, her brother, and their pastor father accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter in an alleged exorcism gone wrong. Firefighters discovered young Arely Naomi Proctor dead on the altar of Iglesia Apostoles y Profetas…
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The parents of a Michigan teenager who fatally shot four students have been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison, marking a landmark case in the realm of school shootings in the United States. James and Jennifer Crumbley, whose son Ethan was convicted of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting, appeared together for the…
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Arizona’s highest court has resurrected a law from 1864 that effectively prohibits abortion in nearly all circumstances, further diminishing reproductive rights in a state where abortion was already restricted after 15 weeks of pregnancy. In a 4-2 decision, the Arizona Supreme Court sided with an anti-abortion obstetrician and a county prosecutor who defended the law…
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Nvidia, the renowned chipmaker and AI technology giant, finds itself embroiled in a legal battle over trademark infringement with Modulus Financial Engineering, a financial-technology company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The dispute centers around Nvidia’s use of the term “Modulus” in its artificial intelligence software, which Modulus Financial claims infringes upon its own trademarks and could…
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In deciding whether to overrule the Chevron doctrine, the Supreme Court should not be persuaded by mistaken invocations of a famous dictum. “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” That quotation from the U.S. Supreme Court’s famous 1803 opinion in Marbury v. Madison has been recited thousands of times.…
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A jury in Manhattan has found Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder, Do Kwon, liable on civil fraud charges brought forth by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The verdict, delivered in federal court following a two-week trial, concluded that Terraform and Kwon misled investors before the collapse of their stablecoin in 2022, which…
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Retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has announced plans to return to the bench as a visiting judge on the federal appeals court in Boston. In an interview on a podcast hosted by Democratic strategist James Carville, Breyer, who previously served on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for 14 years before…
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