321 articles in the Crime & Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld an injunction that bars the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a mass-request procedure adopted last year. The court said...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department is back at the Supreme Court asking the justices to lift a Boston judge’s block on a Postal Service rule that would tighten how states send and return federal mail ballots. In a separate case Tuesday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh refused to revive Missouri’s...
By Tommy Flynn
Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to lift a June order that blocks the expanded Department of Homeland Security SAVE system states use to match voter rolls against federal citizenship, immigration, and Social Security records. Sauer called U.S....
By Tommy Flynn
Federal prosecutors in Dallas charged a former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officer and an alleged moneyman with conspiracy to take illegal gratuities after a six-year run they say put a price tag on lawful status. Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, a former Senior...
By Tommy Flynn
A Biden-appointed federal judge in San Diego ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release an MS-13 gang member convicted in an execution-style murder in El Salvador, ruling that agents held him for five months without a bond hearing or an individualized finding...
By Tommy Flynn
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit late Friday refused to stay a June district-court judgment that shut down the 2025 overhaul of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system — the DHS tool states had been using to run voter rolls...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department announced Friday that federal prosecutors charged five people this week with illegal voting or fraudulent registration tied to the 2022 or 2024 elections in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. The defendants, as described in the department’s release,...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District issued a preliminary injunction Friday blocking the Postal Service from enforcing its finalized “Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” rule through the Nov. 3 midterms. The 49-page order replaces a 14-day temporary restraining order she entered Aug. 27 and comes as...
By Tommy Flynn
FBI agents arrested Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, at his apartment in Los Angeles’s Westlake neighborhood Thursday on a federal indictment charging him with threatening to kill President Donald Trump and with cyberstalking and harassing the president’s personal lawyer, Jay...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to freeze U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s temporary restraining order on a U.S. Postal Service rule for federal mail ballots. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices the Aug. 27 order “partially nullifies...
By Tommy Flynn
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled 7–0 on Thursday that the Republican-drawn congressional map passed in 2025 cannot be used on Nov. 3 and must go to a statewide referendum. Judge Ginger K. Gooch wrote that Article III, Section 49 of the state constitution lets voters approve or...
By Tommy Flynn
The House on Wednesday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have locked the Supreme Court at nine justices. H.J.Res. 1 failed 212–206 under suspension of the rules, short of the two-thirds majority required. The roll call was No. 293. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)...