SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took well…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A divided federal appeals court in Ohio ruled against the state’s fourth largest school district on Thursday in a case that pitted its gender pronoun policies against the rights of students who believe there are only two genders. The full Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the suburban Olentangy…
JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, has urged the Trump administration to suspend its immigration crackdown in his state from Friday to Sunday, to allow children to “spend Halloween weekend without fear”. In a letter addressed to the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and the heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office. The administration’s newest emergency appeal to the high court was filed a month and a half after a federal appeals court in Washington held that the official, Shira Perlmutter, could not…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments Monday over whether President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, has been unlawfully serving as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey since earlier this year. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled a hearing in Philadelphia over Habba’s appointment, which a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump’s conflict with Democratic governors over using the military on U.S. soil. The emergency appeal to the high court came after a judge prevented, for at least two…
BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for the president’s birthright order. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the fifth…
If you believe President Trump, the US economy is on the verge of collapse. That’s because a federal appeals court invalidated most of Trump’s import tariffs on Aug. 29, an outcome Trump said would be disastrous. “There is no substitute for the tariffs and deals that President Trump has made,” the Trump administration said in…
Businesses have been hoping for clarity as President Trump’s trade war enters its eighth month. Instead, they’re getting more confusion and prolonged uncertainty as legal challenges upend a fundamental premise of the whole scheme. A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that most of the tariffs Trump has imposed so far are illegal. Many trade…
In a setback to Donald Trump, the federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the US President had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country, but allowed them to remain in place for now, giving him time to take the fight to the Supreme Court. US President Donald Trump wears a…