Author: Jack Birle
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Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner while considering case
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Appeals court upholds $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation judgment against Trump
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Federal judges lash out over Supreme Court justices’ emergency orders
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Appeals court panel grills DOJ over Trump order restricting prisons by biological sex
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal appeals court panel appeared skeptical Friday of the Trump administration‘s bid to move biologically male inmates who identify as women to male prisons in accordance with a Day One executive order from the…
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Appeals court blocks order shuttering Alligator Alcatraz
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal appeals court has blocked a lower court’s order to shutter the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center over environmental concerns, in a win for the Trump administration and Florida officials. A three-judge panel on the…
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow firing of FTC member and hear full case
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to fire Democrat-appointed Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, while also requesting that the high court hear the full case immediately rather than allow…
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ACLU attempts to yank transgender sports case from Supreme Court docket
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court this week to dismiss a case the justices are scheduled to hear in their upcoming term about a transgender sports law, a move opponents claim is…
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Appeals court’s FTC reinstatement sets up likely Supreme Court clash over Humphrey’s Executor
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Trial for judge accused of helping illegal immigrant evade arrest set for December
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan will go on trial in December for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade federal immigration authorities, a federal judge said on Wednesday. Dugan’s trial in the U.S. District Court for…
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Trump will appeal $5 million E. Jean Carroll ruling to Supreme Court
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump will appeal a New York jury’s 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll to the Supreme Court. The president’s lawyers filed an application to the…





