WASHINGTON — The Justice Department released a library of files on Friday related to Jeffrey Epstein, partially complying with a new federal law compelling their release, while acknowledging that hundreds…
Read more Justice Department releases Epstein files, with redactions and omissionsThe Trump administration filed a federal suit Thursday against California and its public university systems, alleging the practice of offering in-state college tuition rates to undocumented immigrants who…
Read more In-state college tuition for California’s undocumented students is illegal, Trump suit allegesWASHINGTON — President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. His lawyers filed an emergency appeal urging the court to…
Read more Trump’s lawyers ask the Supreme Court to uphold using the National Guard in ChicagoThere are few laws President Trump name-checks more frequently than the Insurrection Act. A 200-year-old constellation of statutes, the act grants emergency powers to thrust active-duty soldiers into…
Read more Trump keeps name-checking the Insurrection Act. It could give him extraordinary powersWASHINGTON, D.C.: A federal judge this week declined to reinstate eight former inspectors general who sued after being abruptly dismissed by the Trump administration. The ruling leaves the…
Read more Firings stand while court weighs Trump administration lawsuitA painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in West Point’s library, several years after the storied academy removed honors…
Read more West Point restores Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s portraitWashington — A federal court in California ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed members of the National Guard and active-duty U.S. Marines…
Read more Judge rules Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles violated federal lawRegulation of psilocybin — the “magic” substance in psychedelic mushrooms — has been a hot-button issue for Californians in recent years, but repeated attempts by state lawmakers to…
Read more Psilocybin — the drug in ‘magic mushrooms’ — could see federal restrictions loosenedAfter Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed undocumented students to be hired on public universities, a legal effort has been launched to force open…
Read more Newsom quashed bill. Now lawsuit aims to open UC jobs to undocumented studentsLos Angeles and Orange County colleges are among six California schools that failed to comply with federal law by inaccurately reporting on campus crimes, according to a state…
Read more L.A. and O.C. colleges among six California schools that failed to accurately report campus crimesWhere to even start in cataloging the most ridiculous—and alarming—recent rulings to come out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit? There’s a case about…
Read more Why the Fifth Circuit Keeps Making Such Outlandish DecisionsIf Republicans win control of one or both congressional chambers this week, they will likely begin a project that could reshape the nation’s political and legal landscape: imposing…
Read more How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Nationwide Freedoms
