Recent Updates
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Trump confirms the CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela
Legal Analysis 10/15/2025President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations on the country.The acknowledgement of covert action in Venezuela by the U.S....
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US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes
Legal Analysis 08/27/2025Immigration advocates gather like clockwork outside Seattle’s King County International Airport to witness deportation flights and spread word of where they are going and how many people are aboard. Until recently, they could keep track of the ...
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What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling
Legal Analysis 06/25/2025The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration’s major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.Immigrant advocates are vowing to fight to ens...
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Arizona prosecutors ordered to send fake elector case back to grand jury
Legal Analysis 05/17/2025Arizona prosecutors pressing the case against Republicans who are accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election results in President Donald Trump’s favor were dealt a setback when a judge ordered the case be sent back to a grand jury.Arizona&...
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McMahon says Columbia University’s changes put it on track to recover funding
Legal Analysis 03/21/2025U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Columbia University is “on the right track” toward recovering federal funding after the elite New York City university agreed to implement a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administ...
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Supreme Court’s decision on a looming TikTok ban could come Friday
Legal Analysis 01/17/2025The Supreme Court ‘s decision could come Friday in the case about whether TikTok must shut down in a few days under a federal law that seeks to force its sale by the Chinese company that owns the social media platform used by 170 million people...
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Appeals court overturns ex-49er Dana Stubblefield’s rape conviction
Legal Analysis 12/27/2024A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after determining prosecutors made racially discriminatory statements during the Black man’s trial. The retired football player was sen...
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VA asks US Supreme Court to reinstate removals of 1,600 voter registrations
Legal Analysis 10/27/2024Virginia on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens.The request comes after a federal appeals court on Sunday unanimously upheld a federal judg...
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After just a few hours, U.S. election bets put on hold by appeals court ruling
Legal Analysis 09/14/2024Just hours after it began, legal betting on the outcome of U.S. Congressional elections has been put on hold by a federal appeals court.The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order Thursday night temporarily freezing the ...
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Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly
Legal Analysis 09/07/2024One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.The Justice Department, joined by a co...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Legal Analysis 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
Legal Analysis 06/20/2024The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...