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June 14, 2024 10:20 AM
In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court’s conservatives overturned a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, saying a bump stock does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun.
June 14, 2024 10:20 AM
June 13, 2024 10:12 AM
In an opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court said the plaintiffs who brought the case against the use of mifepristone did not have standing.
June 13, 2024 10:12 AM
June 11, 2024 11:24 AM
A federal jury in Delaware has convicted Hunter Biden on all three felony charges related to possessing firearms while on narcotics. Of the charges, two carry 10-year maximum prison sentences, and one carries a maximum sentence of five years.
June 11, 2024 11:24 AM
June 10, 2024 02:05 PM
The Supreme Court justice, already in hot water over his choice of house flags, was secretly recorded saying he doesn’t believe the ideological divides in America can ever be bridged. “One side or the other is going to win,” Alito reportedly said, going on to seemingly endorse a pointed call from liberal activist documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor — then posing as a conservative — to “return our country to a place of godliness.” “I agree with you, I agree with you,” Alito said, per Windsor’s audio.
June 10, 2024 02:05 PM
June 10, 2024 11:51 AM
Closing arguments are set to begin in the gun possession case against President Joe Biden’s son. The jury will begin deliberating the case after that. Notably, the defense and government rested their cases without calling Hunter Biden to testify.
June 10, 2024 11:51 AM
June 07, 2024 12:57 PM
Hunter Biden’s daughter testified that she never saw her dad do drugs but knew he was “struggling with addiction,” per reports from the Delaware courtroom where the president’s son is being tried for a gun possession charge. Naomi Biden could not identify exactly when Hunter’s drug problems worsened. “After my uncle died, things got bad,” she said, referring to Beau Biden’s death.
June 07, 2024 12:57 PM
June 05, 2024 02:38 PM
Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle and ex-girlfriend Zoe Kestan took the stand Wednesday in his Delaware trial. Hunter Biden faces three charges tied to possessing a gun while using narcotics. Per reports from the courtroom, both Buhle and Kestan testified about Biden’s drug use and addiction. Kestan also spoke to Biden’s efforts to get sober.
June 05, 2024 02:38 PM
May 29, 2024 04:17 PM
On its first day of deliberation, the jury deciding Donald Trump’s fate in the Manhattan criminal court went home without a verdict Wednesday. While the jury wasn’t exactly expected to come to a decision in a single day, it’s a signal to both the prosecution and the defense that the case wasn’t so convincing — for either side — that it was open-and-shut for the jurors. Deliberations will continue on Thursday.
May 29, 2024 04:17 PM
May 29, 2024 03:37 PM
Justice Samuel Alito sent a letter to Sens. Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse on Wednesday telling them he won’t be recusing himself, as they requested, for Supreme Court cases pertaining to Jan. 6 or the 2020 election. Alito, who’s wrapped up in a controversy over his wife flying controversial flags connected to Jan. 6 rioters and the Christian nationalist movement, said his wife is a private citizen who decided on her own to fly those flags. A “reasonable person,” Alito said, would conclude that his wife’s flag practices “do not meet the applicable standard for recusal.”
May 29, 2024 03:37 PM
May 29, 2024 11:31 AM
Justice Juan Merchan has finished instructing the jury on the legal questions before them, and they are now off to determine whether or not to convict Donald Trump on any of the 34 charges against him in the case.
May 29, 2024 11:31 AM
May 28, 2024 08:13 PM
The prosecution’s closing arguments went for hours, but the end is now near. The jury is expected to receive instructions from the judge when they return Wednesday, and then begin deliberations.
May 28, 2024 08:13 PM
May 28, 2024 02:13 PM
With the defense finished, the prosecution is now beginning its summation of the government’s case against Donald Trump. The argument is expected to last several hours but should end today.
May 28, 2024 02:13 PM
May 28, 2024 11:56 AM
Donald Trump’s defense team is arguing, in part, that Michael Cohen is central to the government’s case and is too unreliable for the jury to believe. The prosecution’s closing argument is expected to begin later today.
May 28, 2024 11:56 AM
May 22, 2024 04:16 PM
The tax charge trial for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was postponed until Sept. 5. It was originally scheduled to start in June, but the defense asked for more time because the younger Biden is facing trial in a separate case beginning early next month.
May 22, 2024 04:16 PM
May 22, 2024 11:37 AM
The Senate expects to confirm President Joe Biden’s 200th judicial nominee on Wednesday — a high figure for this point in a presidency. Along with one Supreme Court justice, he has appointed 42 judges to the U.S. courts of appeals, 155 judges to U.S. district courts and two to the Court of International Trade, according to CBS News.
May 22, 2024 11:37 AM
April 16, 2024 01:55 PM
Justice Clarence Thomas was back at the Supreme Court on Tuesday after a still-unexplained absence the day before. He was present for oral arguments on a case about the Capitol riot, despite calls for him to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases over his wife’s involvement in questioning the 2020 election results.
April 16, 2024 01:55 PM
April 16, 2024 09:27 AM
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could affect charges against former President Donald Trump and defendants in Capitol riot cases. More than 300 people have been charged under the statute being challenged by an ex-police officer who entered the Capitol that day.
April 16, 2024 09:27 AM
April 15, 2024 02:29 PM
Justice Clarence Thomas didn’t attend Monday’s Supreme Court session — and the court isn’t saying why. Thomas still plans to participate in the cases being heard, Chief Justice John Roberts said. Multiple outlets noted it’s highly unusual for the Supreme Court to not give a reason for a justice’s absence.
April 15, 2024 02:29 PM
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