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Appeals court orders judge in Flynn case to explain actions in dismissal

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A federal appeals court Thursday has agreed to hear a request from Michael Flynn's legal team to remove the district judge overseeing his case, and has also ordered the judge to explain his controversial and unorthodox conduct in handling it. 

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Supreme Court Blocks House From Mueller Grand Jury Material

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily prevented the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The court’s unsigned order granted the Trump administration’s re

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Democrats tell Supreme Court they need Mueller grand jury material to consider new articles of impeachment

The Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee told the Supreme Court it needs the grand jury materials redacted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to decide whether to impeach Trump over his alleged obstruction of the Russia investigation.

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Trump looms as wild card in Senate surveillance fight (FISA)

President Trump is looming as a wild card in the Senate’s fight over reauthorizing three lapsed surveillance programs.

Trump, who has repeatedly lashed out that his 2016 campaign was “spied” upon, has not said if he will sign the House-passed bill,

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Encouraging Illegal Aliens To Remain In The US Is A Crime, Supreme Court Rules

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal statute that forbids encouraging illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. unlawfully in a decision Thursday.

The Supreme Court justices voided an earlier decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, whic

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1996 court document confirms Tara Reade told of harassment in Biden’s office

A court document from 1996 shows former Senate staffer Tara Reade told her ex-husband she was sexually harassed while working for Joe Biden in 1993.

The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say

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Court Papers: Sally Yates Learned About the Flynn-Kislyak Call from Obama

From court papers: During transition, top Justice Department official Sally Yates learned about the Flynn-Kislyak phone call from President Obama himself. She was surprised. pic.twitter.com/axooWFcCj1

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Justice Kavanaugh Suggests He Might Be Willing To Overturn Roe v. Wade

In a case that might appear to have no bearing on the right to abortion, a U.S. Supreme Court justice may have signaled a willingness to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In Ramos v. Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that criminal defendants must be c

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Wisconsin Supreme Court justice questions whether stay-at-home orders are 'definition of tyranny'

A conservative justice on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is questioning whether Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’s stay-at-home orders are the “definition of tyranny.”

Evers issued his first stay-at-home order on March 24 and then extended it on April 16. It i

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Alito orders Pennsylvania to respond in case asking Supreme Court to halt enforcement of stay-at-home order

Justice Samuel Alito this week ordered the Pennsylvania government to respond to arguments from a variety of Pennsylvanians asking the Supreme Court to halt enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf's strict stay-at-home order, aimed at fighting the coronavirus,

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Gavin Newsom Ordered by CA Supreme Court to Defend $75 Million Giveaway to Illegals

Californians struggling to make ends meet during extended coronavirus shutdowns were not amused when their governor, Gavin Newsom, announced the creation of a public-private partnership to give away $125 million ($500/person) in pandemic relief gran

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Supreme Court eases path to deport illegal aliens for crimes

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for federal authorities to deport certain immigrants who have committed crimes in a victory for President Donald Trump’s administration.

The court ruled 5-4, with the conservative justices in the major

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Supreme Court rules criminal jury verdicts must be unanimous, overturning decades-old precedent

 

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that state juries must be unanimous to convict defendants in criminal trials, overturning the Louisiana second-degree murder conviction of Evangelisto Ramos that resulted in a life sentence when a jury found him

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9 Key Points From Newly Declassified Report Details On FISA Abuse

 

Yesterday, Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified a slew of footnotes from Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse. In a cover letter to Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron

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Judge Appointments Matter: U.S. appeals court hands win to Trump plan to resume federal executions

The Trump administration's effort to resume federal executions got a boost on Tuesday from a U.S. appeals court, which tossed a district judge's injunction that blocked four death penalty sentences from being carried out.

The 2-1 ruling by a three ju

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The FISA Scandal Is about Corruption, Not ‘Sloppiness’

When 96 percent of spy warrants reviewed contain serious errors or omissions — that’s wholescale fraud, not a few little slip-ups.

Consider this scenario: A federal lawyer is filling out applications requesting FISA warrants to spy on American citize

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