Recent Updates
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Court overturns actor Jussie Smollett's 2019 conviction in hate crime hoax case
Court Watch 11/21/2024The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett's conviction on allegations that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police.Smollett's appeal argued that a special p...
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A man who threatened to kill Democratic election officials pleads guilty
Court Watch 10/29/2024A Colorado man repeatedly made online threats about killing the top elections officials in his state and Arizona — both Democrats — as well as a judge and law enforcement agents, according to a guilty plea he entered Wednesday.Teak Ty Bro...
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Facing 7 more lawsuits, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs protests a ‘fresh wave of publicity’
Court Watch 10/22/2024Seven new lawsuits have been filed against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, including one alleging the rape of a 13-year-old girl. They come as his lawyers tried again Monday to get him freed on bail, and complained that a “fresh wave of publici...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight
Court Watch 10/16/2024A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May.In a decision filed Friday, Circuit Judge William J. Nardi...
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Supreme Court will hear a challenge to ghost-gun regulation
Court Watch 10/08/2024The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Tuesday to a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns, the difficult-to-trace weapons with an exponentially increased link to crime in recent years.The rule is focused on gun kits that are sold online and ...
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Supreme Court leaves in place two Biden environmental regulations
Court Watch 10/07/2024The Supreme Court left in place Friday two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury.The justices did not detail their reasoning in the orders, which came after a f...
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Kentucky sheriff accused of killing judge in courthouse chambers
Court Watch 10/04/2024A judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the killing, police said.The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines shot Dis...
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Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Court Watch 10/01/2024The Mississippi attorney general on Tuesday requested an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter earlier that ...
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Alaska man charged with sending graphic threats to kill Supreme Court justices
Court Watch 09/17/2024An Alaska man accused of sending graphic threats to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has been indicted on federal charges, authorities said Thursday.Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 465 ...
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Trial begins over Texas ‘Trump Train’ highway confrontation
Court Watch 09/07/2024A federal trial is set to begin Monday over claims that supporters of former President Donald Trump threatened and harassed a Biden-Harris campaign bus in Texas four years ago, disrupting the campaign on the last day of early voting.The civil trial o...
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A man who attacked a Nevada judge in court pleads guilty but mentally ill
Court Watch 09/04/2024A man whose courtroom attack on a judge in Las Vegas was recorded on video has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder and other charges. Deobra Delone Redden ended his trial Thursday after Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holth...
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How one Brazilian judge could suspend Elon Musk’s X
Court Watch 09/01/2024The justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has threatened to suspend social media giant X nationwide if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn’t swiftly comply with one of his orders. Musk has responded with insults, including calling de Moraes a “...