321 articles in the Crime & Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Alan D. Albright dismissed the Texas American Federation of Teachers’ First Amendment lawsuit against Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath, holding that the union lacked standing because Morath’s September 2025 letter to superintendents created no...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking key parts of President Trump’s Aug. 6 executive order that sought to deny birthright citizenship in cases of birth tourism, commercial arrangements to give birth in...
By Tommy Flynn
Jurors in the first-degree murder trial of Lindsay Clancy told Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan on Tuesday morning they were “unable to come to a unanimous decision” after many hours of deliberation. Audible gasps were heard in the courtroom as Sullivan read the...
By Tommy Flynn
Utah Fourth District Judge Tony Graf Jr. ruled Tuesday in Provo that prosecutors have probable cause on all seven counts against Tyler James Robinson, 23, in the Sept. 10, 2025, shooting death of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, and bound the case over for trial. Robinson...
By Tommy Flynn
Chief Justice John Roberts’s Aug. 21 administrative stay remains in force, leaving President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot East Wing ballroom and underground security complex under construction while the Supreme Court considers whether to keep a lower-court injunction frozen for...
By Tommy Flynn
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Gov. Kathy Hochul sued the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, asking a state court to force Sheriff Kyle Bourgault to terminate the county’s 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The filing in...
By Tommy Flynn
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 25 vacated a 2023 district-court judgment that struck down Georgia’s 2021 congressional and legislative maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and sent the cases back to U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones. A three-judge panel...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department filed four complaints Thursday challenging state laws that give in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal aliens while denying the same rates to U.S. citizens who live out of state. The targets are Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Associate...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman on Friday refused to issue a temporary restraining order against President Trump’s Aug. 6 follow-on executive order limiting which children born in the United States receive citizenship documents. Boardman, a Biden appointee sitting in...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper heard nearly two hours of argument Thursday on whether the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts may add President Trump’s name back to the building after a prior order forced it off. Cooper did not rule from the bench. Later...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. refused Wednesday to order Texas to extradite Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro to Minnesota, and declined to keep him in jail past the state’s 90-day extradition hold. Castro was released Thursday morning...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston issued a 14-day temporary restraining order late Thursday blocking the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of its finalized mail-ballot rule. The order came one day after she vacated her earlier nationwide injunction on the...