321 articles in the Crime & Courts category.
By Tommy Flynn
Fifteen New York county sheriffs filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking to block the state’s ban on cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arguing Albany is stripping independently elected officers of authority Congress gave them and forcing criminal illegal...
By Tommy Flynn
Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Thompson on Wednesday blocked a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment from the November ballot that would have cleared the way for Maryland lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map and target the only Republican...
By Tommy Flynn
A divided Third Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that Rep. LaMonica McIver is not immune from federal prosecution for alleged physical contact with ICE officers during a May 2025 melee outside Newark’s Delaney Hall detention facility. The 2–1 decision held that the charged conduct...
By Tommy Flynn
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday lifted a preliminary injunction that had barred U.S. Border Patrol officers from detaining people without reasonable suspicion they had violated immigration law in California’s Central Valley. The unanimous...
By Tommy Flynn
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a key lower-court injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots in 23 states and the District of Columbia, allowing the administration to proceed with implementation while the underlying legal...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a $130,000 jury verdict against journalist James O’Keefe, ruling that the award violated the First Amendment by punishing the publication of a news story. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a 2-1 decision written by...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge in Manhattan vacated a State Department policy that had suspended immigrant-visa processing for applicants from 75 countries the Trump administration identified as high-risk for becoming public charges. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee,...
By Tommy Flynn
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary stay on Friday allowing construction of President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom complex to continue while the Supreme Court considers a broader emergency request from the administration. The administrative stay freezes...
By Tommy Flynn
Destiny Alvarez, a 30-year-old conservative attorney, narrowly defeated incumbent Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary for the 11th Judicial Circuit Group 67 seat, ending Ruiz’s more than decade-long tenure on the bench. Unofficial results showed...
By Tommy Flynn
David M. Morens, a former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from efforts to hide communications about coronavirus research grants during the COVID-19 pandemic by using...
By Tommy Flynn
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the Justice Department may ask the Supreme Court to intervene in ongoing legal battles over federal access to state voter rolls, following a series of lower-court rulings that have blocked the administration’s efforts. Appearing on...
By Tommy Flynn
A Clark County judge on Thursday dismissed criminal charges against six Nevada Republicans accused of submitting an alternate slate of electors after the 2020 presidential election, marking the second time the case has been thrown out and dealing another setback to prosecutors...