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Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher David Pecker continues testimony
Litigation Reports 04/26/2024As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.But when it came ...
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Court will decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case
Legal News Headlines 04/24/2024Supreme Court arguments have begun over whether former President Donald Trump can avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former preside...
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Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump
Politics 04/17/2024The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that ...
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What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
Litigation Reports 04/12/2024The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential...
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Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid
Politics 04/08/2024The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.In an ext...
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
Politics 04/04/2024Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriag...
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The Man Charged in an Illinois Attack That Left 4 Dead Is Due Back in Court
Litigation Reports 04/01/2024A northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them is expected back in court on Tuesday.A judge in the city of Rockford is expected to consider prosecutors' request that Chris...
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Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
Daily Legal News 03/26/2024A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year...
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Alabama woman who faked kidnapping pleads guilty to false reporting
Practice Legal News 03/22/2024An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement.News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misd...
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A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
Political and Legal News 03/18/2024In a busy term that could set standards for free speech in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Monday is taking up a dispute between Republican-led states and the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversi...
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Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried
Legal Analysis 03/15/2024FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge....
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Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
Politics 03/12/2024Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.The Republican former president’s lawyers on Monday asked Manhattan Judg...