WASHINGTON– The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review an Alaska pilot’s claims that state authorities tried to illegally seize his $95,000 plane after a passenger brought a six-pack of beer on a flight bound for a dry town. The pilot, Kenneth Jouppi, sued to block the seizure of his plane after being convicted of
Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan appeared in federal court in Miami, marking the beginning of extradition proceedings to the United Kingdom on a series of new charges including rape and sex trafficking. Speaking outside court after the hearing, a lawyer for the brothers said they would fight extradition. The Tates have been
WASHINGTON– The Trump administration first filed a petition with a secretive, dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the United States. The Foreign Terrorist Removal Court was established in 1996, but had never received a petition until last Wednesday, when the Justice Department filed a request
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New Jersey’s bans on assault firearms and magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets are unconstitutional. This is the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state ban on such weapons, and it comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether
A federal appeals court has found that a 28-year prison sentence is too lenient for a Libyan militant who was convicted of terrorism-related charges in the 2012 attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and… WASHINGTON– A 28-year prison sentence is too lenient for a Libyan militant who was convicted
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says efforts by Republicans in the state to wrest power from Democrats are partisan political battles and are not motivated by race. “I don’t think there’s been a history of direct attacks… in a way that suppresses the participation of minority voters,” he adds. He notes that Democrats have redrawn