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Appeals court gives Trump go-ahead to continue firing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff
In a terse, 3-page ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed three parts of an eight-part preliminary injunction ...
‘Beginning to assert their constitutional authority’: Federal judiciary may be gearing up for a face-off with Trump administration
President Donald Trump's administration apparently believes the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 can be used to address unlawful ...
‘Public demands for transparency under law’: DOJ violating FOIA by refusing to release Jeffrey Epstein files, conservative watchdog says
The lawsuit says the DOJ "is in violation of FOIA" and claims irreparable harm has occurred and will continue to occur ...
‘Never should have been charged’: Ghislaine Maxwell tells SCOTUS that Jeffrey Epstein deal applied to her, too
Ghislaine Maxwell appealed her sex-trafficking conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court based on a non-prosecution agreement ...
‘None of them were charged with killing anyone’: Trump must face defamation suit from Central Park 5, judge rules
A federal judge in Pennsylvania refused to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump filed by the Central Park Five ...
Judge cleared in husband’s groin-shooting wasn’t so lucky after blinding sleeping boyfriend with overnight head shot
Sonya M. McKnight was convicted of attempted murder and aggravated assault for shooting her boyfriend in the head last year, ...
‘These are unusual times’: Accused ‘top MS-13 leader’ doesn’t want the DOJ to drop his criminal case
An “unusual” situation is playing out in a Virginia federal court as the U.S. Department of Justice wants charges dropped ...
Wife of Weezer bassist charged with attempted murder of police after manhunt suspect wanders into her backyard, cops say
A California woman who was shot by police while they searched a Los Angeles neighborhood for a suspect was identified as ...
Bikers Against Child Abuse leader caught with sexually explicit images of kids: Cops
New York police arrested John Todaro, the vice president of the Buffalo chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse allegedly ...
Woman wanted to pay her new Tinder hookup to kill her cop ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter: Police
A New Jersey woman was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after an alleged murder-for-hire plot against ...
Man looking to ‘give his life a purpose’ admits assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh over SCOTUS abortion draft leak
The man who attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared in court Tuesday and "accepted full ...
‘Grossly inflated its damage claims’: Fox News gets mixed ruling over deposition requests in Smartmatic lawsuit
In a bench ruling, New York Supreme Court Justice David Cohen nixed the Hoffman deposition request, according to a courtroom report by Courthouse News Service. The network aimed to get Hoffman on the ...