In his first campaign stop since his criminal trial began in Manhattan, former President Donald J. Trump visited a Harlem bodega on Tuesday, where he targeted the district attorney who prosecuted him and portrayed himself as tough on crime, a central theme of his Run 2024. His visit to the store – the scene of…
Enlarge symbolArrows point outwards David Dwayne Cassady, inmate in Georgia. Courtesy: Georgia Department of Corrections A man serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison for kidnapping and other crimes built two bombs that he mailed to an office building in the District of Columbia and to the federal courthouse and buildings in Anchorage, Alaska,…
A Supreme Court majority on Tuesday appeared deeply skeptical of efforts to severely restrict access to a widely used abortion pill, questioning whether a group of anti-abortion doctors and organizations had the right to challenge the drug’s approval Food and Drug Administration challenge. During the nearly two-hour debate, justices from across the ideological spectrum appeared…
Carrying colorful signs and banners that read “Doctors not doctrine” and “Abortion is health care,” hundreds of activists chanted, marched and rallied outside the Supreme Court for hours starting Tuesday morning before the justices weighed the availability of a commonly used abortion pill. Abortion rights supporters outnumbered abortion opponents, but the two factions occasionally clashed…
In a spirited argument at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the justices returned to a thorny question that has preoccupied them at least three times: When can people sue over arrests they say were motivated by retaliation for criticizing the government? As a general rule, the existence of probable cause for the arrest is sufficient…
March 18, 2024, 9:25 a.m. ET March 18, 2024, 9:25 a.m. ETThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans hears appeals from federal courts in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.Credit…Emily Kask for The New York Times The appeals court that upheld partial restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies…
In important cases involving former President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court has tried to put a certain distance between itself and politics. This fragile project does not appear to be a success. “If the court tries to stay out of the political fray, it fails miserably,” said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New…
Former US President Donald Trump watches a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, on February 17, 2024. Rebecca Cook | Reuters The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal charges in his federal election interference case. The Supreme Court granted Trump’s request to stay the case until…
Brian Nelson, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. The hearing is titled “Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN ). ) and the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).” Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg |…
The Times Square NASDAQ MarketSite is seen on March 2, 2015 in New York City. Bryan Thomas | Getty Images A federal appeals court agreed to rehear a challenge by two conservative groups to the Nasdaq board diversity rule related to the disclosure of women and minority memberships on boards of publicly traded companies. The…
