Author: Jack Birle, Washington Examiner

A coalition of pro-gun groups has filed a brief with a federal appeals court, asking them to reconsider a ruling upholding the registration requirement for suppressors under the National Firearms Act. The National Rifle Association, American Suppressor Association, and Independence Institute filed an amicus brief in an effort to convince the U.S. Court of Appeals…

The Supreme Court lifted a district court’s restrictions on federal authorities’ conduct of immigration operations in Southern California, handing the Trump administration another significant win via the high court’s emergency docket. The high court ruled 6-3 on Monday in favor of halting a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California…

Chief Justice John Roberts allowed the Trump administration to fire a Democrat-appointed Federal Trade Commission member temporarily on Monday while the high court considers an application over the lawsuit regarding the commissioner’s firing. Roberts temporarily halted the lower court order allowing FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to remain in her position while the Supreme Court considers…

A federal appeals court upheld an $83.3 million judgment against President Donald Trump for defamation against writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected on Monday Trump’s appeal of a January 2024 jury finding related to the president’s 2019 denial of Carroll’s allegation…

The Supreme Court has been active on its emergency docket in recent months, halting several lower court injunctions and causing anger from some of those lower court judges. The justices have increasingly expressed frustration over lower courts continuing to rule counter to their orders on the emergency docket, leading to Justice Neil Gorsuch issuing a…

Several of President Donald Trump‘s firings of independent agency heads have made their way through the Supreme Court‘s emergency docket, but Tuesday’s ruling in a federal appeals court likely moves the justices closer to overturning a 90-year precedent on the issue. A panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1…

A federal appeals court panel declined on Thursday to rehear a case challenging the Trump administration’s bid to withhold billions of dollars in foreign aid but offered a narrow way for the group of contractors and nonprofit organizations to continue their legal challenge in a lower court. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the…

Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia will ask an immigration judge to reopen his case and seek asylum, his lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday, as the Trump administration remains restricted from removing the illegal immigrant quickly pending a habeas corpus hearing in October. At a scheduling hearing Wednesday morning, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis…

The prosecution against Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade law enforcement will proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Lynn Adelman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin adopted a recommendation from U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph that Dugan’s motion to dismiss the charges should…