Courts & Law
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DOJ sues Kansas over in-state tuition for illegals
At least 20 states offer some kind of access to financial aid for illegal immigrants to enroll in public higher education.
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Palisades Fire jury in Los Angeles deadlocked; DOJ says 'Trial Continues'
Rinderknecht, a former Uber driver, has insisted he is innocent of the charges and is being set up as a fall guy for the failures of others.
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Lawler calls for extending Haitian TPS after SCOTUS ruling
Lawler, for his part, warned that the removal of the roughly 350,000 Haitians on TPS would cause disruptions to major industries and send them back to a country not prepared to accept them.
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US Supreme Court denies Virginia Democrats' redistricting appeal
Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal Monday after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the state's redistricting referendum last week, ruling that the legislative process in which the referendum was created was unconstitutional.
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Texas Supreme Court declines to boot House Dems who fled state during redistricting
Last year, several Democrats left the state in a bid to deny lawmakers a quorum for redistricting, though many returned, and the state ultimately passed a new slate of congressional maps.
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Federal government sues Chick-fil-A franchisee, alleging religious discrimination
Chick-fil-A closes on Sundays, a policy going back 80 years, but the employee is a member of a Christian denomination that observes the sabbath on Saturday.
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Judicial Watch files lawsuit seeking records on $2 billion grant to nonprofit tied to Stacey Abrams
Judicial Watch previously requested records related to the grant in February 2025, but the EPA failed to respond.
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SCOTUS rules abortion pill mifepristone can remain available by mail nationwide
Conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the ruling.
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Justice Department sues DC Bar over alleged weaponization of attorney discipline
At the center of the dispute is an ongoing disciplinary case involving former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, who faced scrutiny over his role in discussions surrounding the 2020 presidential election.
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New York man convicted of running secret Chinese 'police station' in Manhattan
Lu now faces up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of acting as a foreign agent and obstructing justice by deleting some of his messages with Chinese officials. He was acquitted of conspiring with others to act as a Chinese agent.
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Harvey Weinstein complains of chest pain as jurors deliberate in rape retrial
The jurors were approximately four hours into their deliberations when the disruption occurred and are expected to resume their deliberations on Thursday.
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Appeals court blocks $83 million to E. Jean Carroll amid Trump appeal
Carroll, in 2019, accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman's dressing room some time in the 1990s.
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Sixth Circuit rules Kentucky judicial candidates’ campaign speech protected by First Amendment
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that Kentucky judicial candidates may identify themselves as Republicans or conservatives during campaigns without violating the amendment.