Courts

Top cases the Supreme Court will decide at the end of this term

Jack Birle · June 4, 2025 2:00 pm

Senate hosts first crop of Trump judicial nominees famous for fighting Biden in court

Kaelan Deese · June 4, 2025 6:00 am

White House trade counselor Peter Navarro speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

DOJ drops Biden-era effort to get Peter Navarro’s emails

Jack Birle · June 3, 2025 6:40 pm

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson participates in an election forum, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Michigan Democrat Jocelyn Benson faces impeachment resolution over corruption concerns

Emily Hallas · June 3, 2025 3:39 pm

Alina Habba speaks after being sworn in as interim US Attorney General for New Jersey, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on March 28, 2025.

Newark mayor sues Alina Habba for false arrest and malicious prosecution

Jack Birle · June 3, 2025 1:54 pm

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works-Irvin Plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

Trump racks up new wins in tariff legal battle

Jack Birle · June 3, 2025 12:38 pm

A row of AR-15 style rifles is displayed for a photograph, one with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic, and one a fully automatic M-16 machine gun, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), National Services Center, Thursday, March 2, 2023, in Martinsburg, W.Va. Machine guns have been illegal in the U.S. for decades, but in recent years the country has seen a new surge of weapons capable of automatic fire. Small pieces of plastic or metal used to convert legal guns into homemade machine guns are helping to fuel gun violence. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Clarence Thomas blasts Supreme Court for punting on legality of AR-15 ban

Jack Birle · June 2, 2025 5:16 pm

Trump administration can’t avoid ‘free speech’ trial on student protests: Judge

Kaelan Deese · June 2, 2025 5:07 pm

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to stop order blocking federal workforce cuts

Jack Birle · June 2, 2025 3:53 pm

This is a mail in ballot for the upcoming election in Pittsburgh, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Supreme Court takes up GOP challenge to counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day

Jack Birle · June 2, 2025 1:06 pm

FILE - The Theodore Roosevelt Building, location of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, on Feb. 13, 2024, in Washington. The government's chief human resources agency has issued a new rule making it harder to fire thousands of federal employees. Advocates hope the rule will head off former President Donald Trump's promises to radically remake the workforce along ideological lines if he wins back the White House in November. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Appeals court keeps block on DOGE federal workforce cuts

Jack Birle · May 31, 2025 10:27 am

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaves the federal courthouse after a hearing Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Milwaukee.

Indicted Milwaukee judge claims ‘absolute immunity’ in bid to dismiss obstruction charges

Jack Birle · May 30, 2025 4:57 pm