Following the Supreme Court’s historic decision on former President Trump’s immunity claim in the federal election interference case, the matter has been officially returned for a trial. This is standard court procedure. A month after the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision, the case has been formally remanded to the appeals court, which will then return...
A former correctional officer at a federal women’s prison in California faces additional charges connected to allegations from inmates who say they were subjected to his rampant sexual abuse while they were incarcerated, starting as far back as 2016. Darrell Wayne Smith, who worked at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, was arrested on May...
Hunter Biden’s criminal tax trial will begin on Sept. 9 in California, a federal judge overseeing the legal proceedings said Monday. Biden is charged with failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, while also filing false tax reports.He allegedly used the funds to live lavishly, including spending millions of dollars on...
Hunter Biden has asked for criminal cases against him in Delaware and California to be thrown out of court, citing the dismissal of a case involving former President Trump and arguing that Special Counsel David Weiss was illegally appointed. Biden’s lawyers are requesting that both federal cases be thrown out. He was convicted last month...
The jury in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and two of his business associates, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, found Menendez guilty on all charges after a grueling nine-week complex trial in Manhattan. Menendez pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he accepted an array of bribes in exchange for helping...
FIRST ON FOX: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is suing the Biden administration over its new “radical mandate” that requires health care providers to perform transgender surgical procedures – including on children – while forcing states to pay for them. “Joe Biden is once again exceeding his legal authority in order to force his radical...
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Alaska has resigned after investigators determined he created a hostile work environment, engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a former law clerk and lied about it to his colleagues. Joshua Kindred resigned from his post as a U.S. District Court judge for Alaska effective Monday after serving just four...
After her fourth term on the bench, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is asserting her voice and following in the footsteps of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pioneer of originalism on the high court and her former boss. Barrett, appointed by President Donald Trump in October 2020 to fill the seat of...
In what some saw as anticlimactic,theSupremeCourt last Monday declined to decide whether Texas and Florida laws regulating social media moderation policies violatetheFirst Amendment. Butthebignews fromthese consolidated cases was whatthecourtdid say. Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion inMoody v. NetChoice(decided withNetChoice v. Paxton), made clear thattheFirst Amendment “does not go on leave when social media are involved.”...
After the Supreme Court ruled presidents enjoy broad immunity in official acts, President Biden gave a speech lambasting the high court in a manner many observers considered unprecedented. On Monday, Biden declared “I dissent” during an evening address responding to the court’s 6-3 decision favoring Trump and pro-immunity arguments. “This nation was founded on the...
