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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has suggested that Judge Juan Merchan not toss out issuing a ruling in President-elect Donald Trump’s business records trial.

On Thursday’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” Managing Director of the Immigration Defense Unit at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Francisco Ugarte stated that if 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is elected the “idea that

The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that many of the government’s climate change goals are unconstitutional.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his country was pausing relations with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in Mexico following letters and statements. The president says diplomatic officials from both countries had spoken out against his proposed judicial reform, which calls for yearly open elections for all federal judges.

The New York Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Mayor Eric Adams attempting to block Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s migrant busing program. The ruling allows the State of Texas to continue busing migrants to New York City.

Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s business records trial, delayed sentencing for the former president until September.

Former President Donald Trump will remain on the ballot in Michigan after the Michigan Supreme Court rejected an appeal.

A.I. could possibly replace judges in some UK court disputes in the future, a senior judge in the UK has said.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Planned Parenthood CEO and President Alexis McGill Johnson stated that while she strongly opposes the ruling by a federal judge in Texas on the abortion pill mifepristone, ignoring the ruling — an idea

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reacted to a federal court ruling invalidating FDA approval of an abortion pill by stating that “the Biden administration should ignore this ruling.” Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think we’ve been preparing

A 21-year-old man has been jailed for manslaughter in progressive Ireland after he killed a violent home invader as a teenager.

The Administrative Court of Paris halted the deportation of Imam Hassan Iquioussen on Friday after he had been set to leave the country for hate preaching on the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

China’s entire court system has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) software that is used in determining “every verdict,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday.

A top French court has ruled that transgender men, i.e. women who have transitioned, are not eligible for artificial fertilisation treatments (IVF) after the case was brought by a transgender association.

Average British citizens are reportedly being fined thousands of pounds by closed-door courts over COVID-19 lockdown breaches.

The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic has ruled that vaccine passports are tantamount to vaccination coercion and not legal.

The European Commission has demanded that Poland cough up €70 million in fines the nation has so far refused to pay.

A Spanish judge agreed that the potential risks to the child from the vaccine are higher than the benefits. 

The Biden administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to abandon a Trump-era legal challenge alleging that Harvard College’s admission policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants.

The Supreme Court heard gun rights arguments to decide if a New York law requiring someone show cause in order to be approved for a license to carry a firearm outside of their home violates the Second Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in favor of a California police officer who was accused of using “excessive force” during an arrest, reversing the liberal Ninth Circuit appeals court on an issue at the center of the “defund the police” movement.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of Oklahoma police officers who were accused of using excessive force after fatally shooting a man who raised a hammer behind his head, “and took a stance as if he was about to throw the hammer or charge at the officers.” The Court held that the officers are entitled to qualified immunity.

Pop star Britney Spears’ father, James Spears, could face an FBI probe after being accused of crossing “unfathomable lines” over a “horrifying and unconscionable” claim that he set up a surveillance system in his daughter’s bedroom, according to reports. 

More than 130 federal judges might have broken the law — some accidentally — by hearing court cases that involved their own financial interests, breaching a bedrock principle of American jurisprudence, which maintains no one should be a judge of their own cause, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Two New York judges ordered defendants to get vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Italian courts are currently overwhelmed with thousands of asylum seeker cases, as migrants appeal their asylum rejections.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday that absentee ballots must arrive by Election Day, November 3, to be counted — overturning a lower court decision that had extended the deadline by 14 days.

In a decision handed down late last week and reported to the public on Monday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the government of Iran to pay $107 million in compensatory damages, plus $1.3 billion in punitive damages, to the family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson.

The governors of all 36 states in Nigeria challenged an executive order before the nation’s Supreme Court this week relinquishing the federal government from its constitutional responsibility to fund state courts.

The U.S. Senate confirmed its 200th federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, approving Cory Wilson by a narrow 52-48 vote to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Sweden’s supreme administrative court has upheld an order for a Muslim youth group to repay government grants after it was ruled to not “respect the ideas of democracy”.

A federal judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, has blocked American communities and states from stopping refugee resettlement — a power that President Trump granted to them through an executive order last year.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to determine whether a witness had to obey a subpoena from the impeachment inquiry after Democrats withdrew the subpoena and impeached Trump anyway.

The Court of Claims allowed derivative claims to proceed based on a new and untested legal theory.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is allowing President Donald Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ enforcement plan to continue, despite a negative decision from a lower-court judge.

A federal judge has denied a request from a 24-year-old woman who fled the United States to join the Islamic State, arguing that she does not face imminent danger in the Syrian refugee camp where she is currently situated.