194 articles in the In the Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
LOS ANGELES — Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, a longtime paid petition circulator, agreed to plead guilty Monday to a federal charge of paying individuals — including homeless people on Los Angeles’ Skid Row — to register to vote. Armstrong, 64, of Marina del Rey, also known as...
By Tommy Flynn
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation Thursday banning the future sale, manufacture, import, purchase and transfer of certain semi-automatic “assault firearms” and magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds, prompting immediate federal and...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency appeal to reinstate a voter-approved constitutional amendment that would have authorized mid-decade congressional redistricting, leaving the state’s current court-drawn maps in place for the...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the unauthorized leak of his tax returns, according to multiple reports citing sources familiar with the negotiations. Under the emerging settlement, the IRS...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Donald Trump, his two eldest sons and the Trump Organization have begun discussions with the Internal Revenue Service aimed at resolving a $10 billion lawsuit filed over the unauthorized leak of the president’s confidential tax records to news...
By Tommy Flynn
NEW YORK — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted President Donald Trump a temporary stay Tuesday on the $83.3 million defamation judgment awarded to E. Jean Carroll, pausing any payment requirement until the Supreme Court decides whether to take up his appeal or reject...
By Tommy Flynn
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state’s 2025 Republican-drawn congressional map Tuesday, clearing it for use in the November 2026 elections. In two separate opinions, the court affirmed lower-court rulings that the “Missouri First Map”...
By Tommy Flynn
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Democrats are rejecting the state Supreme Court’s May 8 ruling that voided a voter-approved constitutional amendment on congressional redistricting and are advancing multiple strategies to overturn or sidestep it, including an emergency appeal to the...
By Tommy Flynn
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated lower-court orders blocking Alabama’s 2023 congressional redistricting map, clearing the way for the state to use the Republican-led legislature’s plan for the 2026 midterm elections. In an unsigned order, the justices...
By Tommy Flynn
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asking the justices to overturn the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling that voided a voter-approved constitutional amendment authorizing new congressional maps. The appeal, led by...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, entered a not guilty plea Monday morning in federal court in the District of Columbia. Allen faces charges of attempted assassination of the president,...
By Tommy Flynn
ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Rufus French, a former NFL tight end who played for the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers, was sentenced Friday to 196 months in federal prison for his role in a yearslong scheme that defrauded Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the...