194 articles in the In the Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
ST. LOUIS – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled 2-1 on March 25, 2026, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may detain certain illegal aliens without bond hearings while their removal proceedings are pending, reversing a Minnesota federal district...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON – Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte has issued two new criminal referrals against New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging she committed homeowners insurance fraud on applications for a property she owns in Norfolk, Virginia. The referrals,...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON – Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has reached a $1.25 million settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve his 2023 lawsuit alleging malicious and politicized prosecution stemming from the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation. The agreement, announced in...
By Tommy Flynn
LOS ANGELES – A California jury found Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms liable on March 25, 2026, in the first bellwether trial over claims that the companies designed their social media platforms to be addictive and harm young users’ mental health. The unanimous verdict came...
By Tommy Flynn
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority expressed significant skepticism toward state laws allowing mail ballots received after Election Day during oral arguments on March 23, 2026, in a Mississippi case that could affect voting rules in multiple states ahead of the 2026...
By Tommy Flynn
Five additional defendants pleaded guilty this week in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case, one of the largest pandemic-relief fraud investigations in U.S. history. The latest guilty pleas bring the total number of convictions and guilty pleas in the Minnesota-based...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge on March 20, 2026, issued a ruling that temporarily blocks key parts of the Pentagon’s revised journalist credentialing policy. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman found that certain requirements in the rules — including mandatory pledges not to publish...
By Tommy Flynn
Federal prosecutors in Miami have subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey as part of a Justice Department investigation into the actions of Obama-era intelligence officials, expanding scrutiny of the origins and handling of the 2016 Russia probe. The subpoena, first reported...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted Cynthia Raygoza, 38, of Riverside, California, and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado, on March 2, 2026, of one count each of felony stalking for following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer home from work...
By Tommy Flynn
Attorneys for Brian J. Cole Jr. filed a motion in federal court this week arguing that President Donald Trump’s broad pardons for January 6-related offenses should apply to their client, potentially leading to dismissal of all charges. Cole, 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, convicted nine individuals linked to Antifa on March 12, 2026, for their roles in a violent ambush at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado during a July 4, 2025, anti-deportation protest. Benjamin Song, identified as the ringleader,...
By RWTNews Staff
Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard has denied a motion for a new trial filed by Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national convicted in the 2024 murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. In an order issued March 10, 2026, Judge Haggard...