Regulation
How legislation is being implemented by executive branch agencies
Witness testimony in the trial regarding former President Trump’s hush money is set to kick off for a third week on Monday. So far, the jury has received testimony from key players involved in the investigation, such as ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, attorney Keith Davidson, and Hope Hicks, who was once a close political confidante of the former president.…
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his spouse were charged Friday with accepting almost $600,000 in bribes and moving the money illegally. The legal document brought by the Justice Department (DOJ) describes payments Cuellar purportedly received from an oil business owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico. “The bribe payments were purportedly laundered,…
The judge handling former President Trump’s hush money case clarified Friday that Trump is allowed to testify during the trial, correcting the former president’s assertion a day earlier that a gag order prevented him from doing so. Judge Juan Merchan at the start of Friday’s proceedings in the case said it had come to his…
A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that someone acting as a parent cannot be required to pay child support in the state without being the actual parent or without signing a formal agreement. A split three-judge panel reversed a ruling from a local judge that stated that the ex-partner of a child’s mother…
Former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro is required to go to prison on Tuesday as Chief Justice John Roberts rejected his last-minute attempt to stay free while appealing his contempt of Congress conviction. Roberts stated on Monday that he will not halt Navarro’s four-month prison sentence during the appeal process. Navarro has been instructed to report to…
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) says he will not intervene to defend the state’s system of organizing its primary ballot based on the “county line,” agreeing with a lawsuit that it is unconstitutional. Platkin said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi on Sunday that he believes the county line system…
A conservative think tank has filed a lawsuit on Monday to challenge the approval of a potentially major offshore wind farm by the Biden administration. The Heartland Institute and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which promotes an economically libertarian approach to environmental action, are at the forefront of this legal action.
The Supreme Court weighed the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) free speech case against a former New York regulator during oral arguments Monday. Over 75 minutes of arguments, the justices probed how to distinguish when government officials go beyond permissible advocacy and cross into unconstitutional coercion. “How do you define when it goes too far along…
The Supreme Court appeared cautious on Monday about imposing strict limits on how government officials communicate with social media platforms regarding content moderation decisions. Questioning both sides intensely, the judges aimed to figure out when it is suitable for the government to urge the platforms to remove controversial content — if at all. Several judges, both liberal and…
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