Appeals court ruling leaves Jack Smith's report on Trump in limbo
A federal appeals court has blocked a move by Donald Trump's lawyers to stop the Justice Department from releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report…
Appeals court declines to block Trump sentencing in hush money case
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court on Thursday declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing for his felony conviction, leaving the Supreme Court as the…
Supreme Court turns down Trump plea to block New York sentencing
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down President-elect Donald Trump’s plea to block a New York judge from sentencing him Friday on his felony…
‘The mountain is screaming at you’: L.A. fires become a collective trauma
More than 1,100 homes, businesses and other buildings have been lost in the L.A. fires, and many more thousands of people have been displaced. It…
Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in New York criminal case
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to block a New York judge from sentencing him Friday over his felony conviction in…
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to block hush-money sentencing
Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block criminal sentencing in his hush-money case in New York set for…
Newsom’s new budget sounds more Republican than radical left
Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 13 days until the inauguration and folks, my vacation was not long enough. But here we are, and I’m…
Judge denies Trump’s request to delay hush money sentencing
1 of 2 | New York Judge Juan Merchan on Monday denied President-elect Donald Trump's (pictured in May) request to delay this week's sentencing in…
Congress to certify Trump’s election win under heavy security, blizzard conditions
1 of 4 | Congress on Monday will certify President-elect Donald Trump's election win amid blizzard conditions in Washington. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI. | License…
Justice Department urges Supreme Court not to delay law banning TikTok
1 of 3 | The U.S. Justice Department is petitioning the Supreme Court not to entertain President-elect Donald Trump’s attempts to influence the court’s decision…
Judge in Trump’s ‘hush money’ case signals he won’t impose any punishment
President-elect Donald Trump likely won't face any legal punishment in his New York "hush money" case after a ruling issued by Judge Juan Merchan on…
Chief Justice John Roberts decries threats to judges, defiance of rulings
1 of 2 | Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts penned his year-end report on the federal judiciary, published on New Year’s Eve, recounting a…
Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him time to negotiate TikTok terms
President-elect Donald Trump says he is uniquely positioned to negotiate a deal resolving national-security issues and other problems with TikTok and on Friday asked the…
California’s rush to regulate AI has a 1st Amendment problem
The Constitution shouldn’t be rewritten for every new communications technology. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this long-standing principle during its most recent term in applying the…
Biden forgives $4.28B of student debt for almost 55,000 Americans
1 of 3 | Almost 55,000 Americans working in the public service will have their collective $4.28 billion worth of student debt forgiven, U.S. President…
Supreme Court hears free-speech case involving cheerleader
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear its most important case in decades on the 1st Amendment rights of students, and ultimately is expected…
Paris Hilton, gender parity, Siberian tigers: 3 good-news stories for the holidays
Hello and happy Thursday. There are 32 days until the inauguration and, bust out the tissues, this is my last newsletter until Jan. 7. That…
Supreme Court leaves California CO2 rules intact, for now
Environmental advocates are cautiously optimistic after the Supreme Court left California’s nation-leading auto emissions standards in place — at least for the moment.The Supreme Court…
As states fight over abortion laws, California could get dragged in
Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 34 days until the inauguration, and today we’re talking about the coming legal war over states’ rights. Of course,…
TikTok CEO meets with Trump while asking for Supreme Court to take up ban appeal
Shou Chew, CEO of TikTok, listens to a question as he testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on January 31, 2024. He visited President-elect…