78 articles in the In the Courts category.
By RWTNews Staff
WASHINGTON – A federal judge ordered construction of President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom to stop immediately on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, ruling that the project requires explicit approval from Congress before it can proceed. U.S. District Judge...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s law banning mental health professionals from offering conversion therapy to minors violates the First Amendment. In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court held that the 2019 statute — which prohibits licensed...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments April 1, 2026, in Trump v. Barbara, the high-profile case testing the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s January 20, 2025, executive order that limits automatic birthright citizenship for children born in...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has reached a landmark consent decree and settlement in the long-running Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, formally ending the Biden administration’s alleged “whole-of-government” effort to coerce social media companies into suppressing...
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...