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Supreme Court, for Now, Pauses Lower Court Decision Limiting Voting Rights Act

24 juillet 2025 à 18:36
The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.

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Voters filling in their ballots at voting booths in Bismarck, N.D., in 2022. If the justices agree to hear the North Dakota matter, it will be the second major voting rights case in the upcoming term, which begins in October.

Justice Kagan Urges Supreme Court to Explain Itself in Emergency Decisions

24 juillet 2025 à 18:03
In remarks before judges and lawyers in California, the justice said she believed the court had a responsibility to share its reasoning.

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In an appearance on Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan discussed the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency docket rulings and said the court could be doing more to explain its reasoning on such cases.

The Justice Dept. Interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell, While Opposing Her Appeal

24 juillet 2025 à 17:55
Even as top Justice Department officials brokered an interview with a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s, they asked the Supreme Court to reject her appeal.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen from Capitol Hill.

Appeals Court Blocks California’s Background Checks for Ammunition Buyers

24 juillet 2025 à 13:31
The law violates the Second Amendment, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision.

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California voters approved a ballot initiative in 2019 to require background checks for ammunition buyers.

MyPillow Founder, Mike Lindell, Will Not Pay out ‘Challenge’ Winnings, Appeals Court Rules

24 juillet 2025 à 11:56
A court overturned a previous ruling requiring Mike Lindell to pay out $5 million to a software engineer who had entered Mr. Lindell’s challenge to skeptics of his election interference claims.

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Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder. At a symposium he hosted in South Dakota in 2021, Mr. Lindell invited skeptics to disprove what he called evidence of interference in the 2020 presidential election.
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Restrict Birthright Citizenship

23 juillet 2025 à 22:23
The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit brings the White House’s theory of citizenship closer to a full Supreme Court review.

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The ruling appears to be the first time that an appellate court has ruled on birthright citizenship after a Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of injunctions sent lawyers scrambling to recast their claims in light of its new standard.

Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change

23 juillet 2025 à 12:17
The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.

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Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s climate change minister, in The Hague on Wednesday.

Trump Order on International Criminal Court Likely Violates First Amendment, Judge Rules

19 juillet 2025 à 00:33
The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s efforts to penalize and isolate the world’s highest criminal court.

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President Trump has accused the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, of targeting the United States and Israel.

Trump Administration Requests Release of Epstein Grand Jury Records. What’s Next?

18 juillet 2025 à 19:13
The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.

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The Justice Department has formally filed two petitions in the Southern District of New York seeking to unseal grand jury records in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Former President, Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor Before Trial

18 juillet 2025 à 15:19
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Jair Bolsonaro, the former president, to stay home most hours, defying President Trump’s demands that charges against him be dropped.

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Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, outside the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration on Friday. Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered him to stay away from foreign embassies because it fears he could flee justice.

Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s Decade of Legal Woes Ends

17 juillet 2025 à 06:24
​The South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling dispels uncertainty​ over Lee Jae-yong’s leadership as the tech giant faces challenges from tariffs and chip making rivals.

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Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, arriving for a court appearance in Seoul in February.

Judge Chastises U.S. Over Secrecy in Moving to Drop Charges Against MS-13 Leader

16 juillet 2025 à 16:59
The judge on Long Island chided the Trump administration over its effort to “avoid public scrutiny.”

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President Trump with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office in April.

Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why

16 juillet 2025 à 05:02
In a series of terse, unsigned orders, the court has often been giving the green light to President Trump’s agenda without a murmur of explanation.

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The court has allowed the administration to fire tens of thousands of government workers, discharge transgender troops, end protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants from war-torn countries and fundamentally shift power from Congress to the president.

Dan Serafini, Former Baseball Pitcher, Is Convicted of Murder

15 juillet 2025 à 18:17
The 51-year-old faces life in prison without parole for killing his father-in-law and gravely wounding his mother-in-law in execution-style shootings in 2021.

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Dan Serafini throws a warm-up pitch before the first inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game between Italy and the Los Angeles Angels in 2013.

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Gut Education Department With Mass Firings

14 juillet 2025 à 21:02
The move by the justices represents an expansion of executive power, allowing President Trump to dismantle the inner workings of a government department.

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The emergency application to the justices stemmed from efforts by the Trump administration to sharply curtail the federal government’s role in the nation’s schools.

Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries

13 juillet 2025 à 05:01
Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”

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Downtown Juba, South Sudan, last year. Third-country deportations could accelerate under new internal guidance issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Faces New Peril: Class Actions

12 juillet 2025 à 05:01
In last month’s decision limiting one judicial tool, universal injunctions, the court seemed to invite lower courts to use class actions as an alternative.

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The federal courthouse in Concord, N.H. A federal judge in the state opened a new front in the battle to deny President Trump’s effort to redefine who can become a citizen.

Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

12 juillet 2025 à 00:21
A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.

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The initial rulings represented a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in and around Los Angeles during raids, which have entered their second month.

Man Who Decapitated Father and Displayed Head on YouTube Gets Life in Prison

11 juillet 2025 à 18:00
Justin Mohn, 33, of Levittown, Pa., was convicted on murder and terrorism charges in the 2024 killing of his father, Michael.

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The home in Levittown, Pa., where Justin Mohn murdered his father last year.

Appeals Court Overturns Plea Deal in 9/11 Case

12 juillet 2025 à 01:46
The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the accused mastermind and a Pentagon official.

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Camp Justice at the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2023.

Appeals Court Overturns Plea Deal in 9/11 Case

12 juillet 2025 à 01:46
The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the accused mastermind and a Pentagon official.

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Camp Justice at the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2023.

Four Ex-Jail Officers Are Sentenced in Death of West Virginia Inmate

10 juillet 2025 à 17:57
The former officers, who brutally beat a 37-year-old man, received prison terms ranging from three years to more than two decades.

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The Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., where Quantez Burks, 37, died in March 2022 after being brutally beaten by corrections officers.

Justice Jackson Says ‘the State of Our Democracy’ Keeps Her Up at Night

10 juillet 2025 à 15:58
At a bar association event in Indiana, the justice told those gathered that she is focused on drawing attention to what is happening to the government.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, photographed last year, is the Supreme Court’s most junior member, but she wrote an unusually large number of concurring and dissenting opinions during the court’s most recent term.

Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order in Class-Action Challenge

10 juillet 2025 à 11:42
The federal judge reignited the legal standoff over President Trump’s efforts to deny citizenship to children born to undocumented parents.

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The federal courthouse in Concord, N.H. Judge Joseph N. Laplante allowed the case to proceed as a class action.

Mexico Sentences 10 Men to 140 Years Each in Prison for Links to Killing at Cartel Ranch

9 juillet 2025 à 19:26
The men were convicted of killing one person and disappearing two others at a ranch in Jalisco state, where the authorities found piles of shoes, clothing and hundreds of personal items.

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The Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, a village near Guadalajara in Jalisco state, which Mexican officials said was used as a recruitment, training and operations center by the Jalisco cartel.

Supreme Court Won’t Revive Aggressive Florida Immigration Law

9 juillet 2025 à 15:48
The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a federal matter.

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At least six other states have similar laws. Every court to consider them has blocked them, relying on a 2012 Supreme Court decision endorsing broad federal power over immigration.

European Court Holds Russia Liable for Human Rights Violations in Ukraine and MH17 Attack

9 juillet 2025 à 09:21
In symbolic rulings, Moscow was again blamed for the downing of Flight MH17 in 2014 and for an array of war-related human rights violations, including the transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.

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A section of Flight MH17 after it was shot down in 2014 over eastern Ukraine.

Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Administration’s Mass Firings of Federal Workers

8 juillet 2025 à 18:05
The justices announced they were not ruling on the legality of the specific downsizing plans but they allowed the Trump administration to proceed for now with its restructuring efforts.

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The case represents a key test of the extent of President Trump’s power to reorganize the government without input from Congress.

Colorado Judge Fines MyPillow Founder’s Lawyers for Error-Filled Court Filing

8 juillet 2025 à 17:36
The judge said the lawyers had not explained how such errors could have been filed “absent the use of generative artificial intelligence or gross carelessness by counsel.”

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A federal judge found that lawyers for Mike Lindell had violated a federal rule that requires them to certify that the claims they are making in court filings are grounded in the law.

Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case

7 juillet 2025 à 00:48
Three people died in 2023 after eating beef Wellington made by Erin Patterson, whose subsequent trial gripped the country.

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The courthouse in Morwell, Australia, where Erin Patterson’s murder trial was being held.

Pro-Palestinian Activists Lose Appeal Against U.K. Government Ban

4 juillet 2025 à 18:23
The decision means that the group called Palestine Action will be banned as a terrorist organization in Britain while its full legal challenge to the ban plays out.

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A Palestine Action activist, Lisa Luxx, outside the High Court in London on Friday.
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