Recent Updates

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  Virginia Democrats move to round out ticket in key off-year election

  Criminal Law 06/28/2025

  Former Del. Jay Jones will look to be the face of legal resistance to President Donald Trump in Virginia after winning Tuesday’s closely watched Democratic state primary for attorney general.Jones will face Republican Attorney General Jason Miy...

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  ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

  Criminal Law 11/20/2024

  The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaz...

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  Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli

  Criminal Law 10/08/2024

  The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company re...

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  Former Singaporean minister pleads guilty to receiving illegal gifts

  Criminal Law 09/24/2024

  A former Singaporean cabinet minister pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts Tuesday, in the Asian financial hub’s first ministerial criminal trial in nearly half a century.Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran pleaded guilty to on...

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  Supreme Court will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal

  Criminal Law 05/04/2024

  The state Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal without allowing any lower appellate courts to rule first.The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm, sued in December 2022 o...

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  Alabama woman who faked kidnapping pleads guilty to false reporting

  Criminal Law 03/22/2024

  An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement.News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misd...

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  Michigan Supreme Court will keep Trump on the state's primary election ballot

  Criminal Law 12/27/2023

  Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot.The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing ...

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  Trump celebrates win in Colorado election case during return visit to Iowa

  Criminal Law 11/20/2023

  Former President Donald Trump celebrated a win in a closely watched election case during a return visit to Iowa Saturday, where he blasted his political foes and encouraged his supporters to not move past their grievances with President Joe Biden.A C...

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  Russian authorities ask the Court to declare the LGBTQ ‘movement’ extremist

  Criminal Law 11/15/2023

  The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ “international public movement” as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ c...

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  A Supreme Court redistricting ruling gave hope to Black voters

  Criminal Law 09/17/2023

  The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights activists a surprising opportunity before the 2024 elections.New congressional maps would have to include more districts in ...

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  Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative

  Criminal Law 07/25/2023

  The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering.State Issue 1, the sole question on the ballot, calls ...

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  Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump

  Criminal Law 07/21/2023

  A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the former president’s claims that the award was excessive and that the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude he raped a columnist in a luxury de...