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  • Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

    U.S. Supreme Court News 02/13/2025

    Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors to a private effort to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, ending a case the conservative strategist decried as a “political persecution.”Spared from jail as part of a plea...

  • Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

    Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

    U.S. Supreme Court News 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...

  • A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order

    U.S. Supreme Court News 01/27/2025

    A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first h...

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

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

    U.S. Supreme Court News 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

    U.S. Supreme Court News 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...

  • Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that could ban TikTok in the US

    Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that could ban TikTok in the US

    U.S. Supreme Court News 01/11/2025

    The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and n...

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

    Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

    U.S. Supreme Court News 01/01/2025

    A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said.The decision puts back on track...

  • Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

    Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract

    U.S. Supreme Court News 12/21/2024

    Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, an effort by the Teamsters to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period.The Teamsters say the workers, who authorized strikes in the past few days, a...

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

    Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board

    U.S. Supreme Court News 12/12/2024

    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’ ...

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

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

    U.S. Supreme Court News 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

    U.S. Supreme Court News 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...

  • Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case

    Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case

    U.S. Supreme Court News 10/18/2024

    The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...