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“There is a thin line between the military’s tolerance for questionable partisan moves over the past three years and the point where these become intolerable,” a retired general said.
The president threatens to bring a particularly authoritarian brand of executive power to American cities.
The Judiciary Committee cleared Judge Justin Walker for a floor vote over the objections of Democrats, who said he was not qualified.
A flood of arrests has caused a backlog in New York City’s courts, forcing many to wait for more than 24 hours before seeing a judge.
Past protests actually are remembered in China — and commemorated with yet more protests.
The polarization roiling the country has the Supreme Court in its grip.
What we have here is a failure to dominate.
He “does not even pretend to try” to unite Americans, the former defense secretary said, breaking his long public silence on the president amid protests across the nation.
The organization filed the suit on behalf of a reporter who said he was hit in the face with a projectile shot by the police as he was covering a protest.
His executive order aimed at social media companies should be ignored.
A lawyer for the trial judge told an appeals court why he wanted to examine the Justice Department’s “unusual” request to dismiss the charge.
The case concerned the constitutionality of appointments to a government board charged with restructuring billions of dollars of debt.
Judges in Harris County, Texas, were far more likely to appoint lawyers who had donated to their campaigns to represent poor criminal defendants.
Protesters in Michigan who sought to intimidate the governor and the Legislature with a show of arms aren’t just misreading the Second Amendment.
A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses.
Readers discuss the president’s attempted crackdown on Twitter. Also: Cate Blanchett and feminism; remembering Larry Kramer; leaving the city in the pandemic; Groucho on college football.
His clients included John Gotti, Joseph Bonanno, Miami’s “cocaine cowboys” and the defendants in the Wounded Knee siege.
Without certain liability protections, companies like Twitter would have to be more aggressive about policing messages that press the boundaries — like the president’s.
Section 230, from a 1996 federal law, was meant to protect young internet companies from liability. Lawmakers have threatened to change it.
The move is almost certain to face a court challenge and signals the latest salvo by President Trump to crack down on online platforms.
“No witness, alleged victim or litigant should be treated that way in a court of law,” the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court wrote in the unanimous decision.
Voters overwhelmingly wanted to restore former felons’ voting rights.
The suit filed by Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, opens a new front in Republicans’ push to throw suspicion on Democratic efforts to make it easier to vote amid the outbreak.
The court’s action left in place a court order requiring prison officials to move more than 800 older or medically vulnerable prisoners from a facility that has seen nine deaths from Covid-19.
A federal judge said the law would result in discrimination against felons who cannot afford to pay court fines and fees.
Norma McCorvey makes a shocking deathbed confession.
The prisoner, Adree Edmo, said Idaho’s failure to provide the procedure violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The overhaul of a division of the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington came at the end of a brief tenure by a longtime adviser to Attorney General William P. Barr.
Two recent cases on religion are about more than the tales they tell.
The group says it doesn’t endorse nominees for public office. Say what?
Before dying in 2017, Norma McCorvey said she had supported anti-abortion groups only for the money.
The intelligence services cannot randomly search the digital data of citizens of other countries living abroad, judges said, in a decision welcomed by civil rights activists.
Although some states have tried to ban them, anti-lockdown demonstrations are protected by the First Amendment.
In a unanimous ruling, the court said a 2008 law allowing punitive damages applied retroactively to 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
The move is highly unusual and has prompted a judge to appoint an outsider to argue against the department.
The House’s vote on Friday to allow lawmakers to work from afar will fundamentally change how Congress operates.
The court rejected the president’s request to dismiss a case brought by the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia regarding his Washington hotel.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond rejected the president’s request to dismiss a case brought by the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia regarding his Washington hotel.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond rejected the president’s request to dismiss a case brought by the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia regarding his Washington hotel.
Watching “Waco” in a season of government-imposed isolation.
The great racial imbalance in Covid-19’s effect and the violent killings of black people are related.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan will hear a challenge to the Justice Department’s surprise move to drop charges against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn.
The decision, by a 4-to-3 majority, was a high-profile challenge of the emergency authority of a statewide official during the coronavirus pandemic.
Even the Supreme Court justices are perplexed.
Fearing chaos, several justices said states may require members of the Electoral College to vote for the presidential candidates they had promised to support.
Armed militia-style protesters have helped businesses across Texas defy coronavirus lockdowns and reopen. Protesters say they are enforcing the Constitution.
A majority of justices seemed skeptical of an effort by three House committees, but they seemed more sympathetic to the argument of the Manhattan district attorney.
A proposal to ban membership among judges in the Federalist Society has set off a partisan battle. The influential group has guided President Trump’s rightward overhaul of the judiciary.
Curtis T. Hill Jr., a Republican, had his law license suspended for 30 days after the court found that he inappropriately touched four women at a party in 2018.
She helped Ruth Bader Ginsburg win a federal judgeship. “I would not hold the good job I have today were it not for Barbara,” Justice Ginsburg said.
The law firm paid a former Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, and an associate to avert a suit over its role in a report justifying her imprisonment by a political rival.
After winning by a surprising margin in a key Wisconsin judicial race, Democrats are hoping they can replicate the same game plan.
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear lawyers argue the president’s claim that he has absolute immunity while in office.
Sixty-four children in the state have been hospitalized with a mysterious illness that may be linked to Covid-19, officials said.
The Supreme Court weighs whether Electoral College electors can vote their preference for president rather than the choice of their state.