Recent Updates
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Supreme Court Asked to Review Texas Ten Commandments Law in Public Schools
Court Watch 08/18/2026Civil rights advocates on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, teeing up a potential new test of state-sponsored religious expression in classrooms.Posters featuring the T...
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David Crowley wins Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor
Court Watch 08/12/2026Moderate Democrat David Crowley won the Wisconsin primary for governor, defeating a democratic socialist who fell short while trying to deliver another win for progressives in a battleground state.Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, is vying to ...
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Small businesses file lawsuits against Trump’s new sweeping tariffs
Law Firm News 08/03/2026Two lawsuits filed by small businesses are challenging Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced Thursday that impose double-digit levies on 60 trading partners.The tariffs, implemented under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for what the Trump adm...
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Trump fires new US attorney in Seattle an hour after federal judges appoint him
Legal Networks 07/21/2026Donald Trump fired the new top federal prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president over the powerf...
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Lawmakers cast doubt on Kathryn Ruemmler's testimony about Epstein ties
Legal Issues 07/18/2026Lawmakers said Kathryn Ruemmler, the former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and White House counsel to President Barack Obama, was not being truthful Wednesday about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, rejecting her testimony that Epstein had merely "...
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Appeals court ends a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana
Legal Issues 07/15/2026A federal appeals court on Tuesday ended more than 60 years of federal oversight of a Louisiana school system that had been ordered to eradicate segregation.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a decades-old desegregation mandate for the Conc...
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New York Times reporters are subpoenaed after Air Force One stories
Legal Issues 07/11/2026The Department of Justice has subpoenaed New York Times journalists after they reported on security concerns involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One, marking a dramatic escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign against the media that has...
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Former mayor of Mississippi's capital city pleads guilty in bribery scheme
Court Watch 07/08/2026The former mayor of Mississippi's capital city and the former City Council president have pleaded guilty in a bribery scheme one week before they were set to face trial.Former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and former Jackson City Council Preside...
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Former NBA star Malik Beasley pleads not guilty to gambling charges
Trial Coverage 07/05/2026Malik Beasley's lawyer said the indicted former NBA star "wants to move on with his life" after pleading not guilty Wednesday to charges that he altered his play in certain games in 2024 to enrich sports bettors and ease his own debts.Beasley, the la...
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Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots
Legal Marketing 07/02/2026The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of C...
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Former Colorado analyst pleads guilty in DNA testing scandal
Financial 06/28/2026A former forensic analyst with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation pleaded guilty Tuesday to four felony counts stemming from accusations that she manipulated and omitted data to speed up the DNA testing process, calling into question the validity o...
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Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns
Financial 06/25/2026The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights.The high court's 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto priva...