Texas’ ban on the most common abortion procedure during the second trimester came before the full 14-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit on Thursday, with arguments invoking gruesome images of fetal dismemberment.
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Continuing a decade-long battle between federal prosecutors and victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring, an attorney for one victim asked the en banc 11th Circuit on Thursday for another chance to challenge a plea deal shielding the investment tycoon’s co-conspirators from criminal liability.
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In a major reversal, the en banc D.C. Circuit said Thursday it will rehear a case brought by House Democrats to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress.
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The 11th Circuit on Friday gave victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring another chance to challenge a non-prosecution deal that shields the wealthy financier’s associates from criminal liability in Florida court.
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A lawyer fighting for victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring wants a second chance to convince the 11th Circuit that prosecutors violated federal law by keeping the wealthy financier’s plea arrangement concealed from the girls he abused.
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The full D.C. Circuit on Monday reheard a case challenging what one judge had called a “Kafkaesque” regime to approve a natural gas pipeline snaking from Pennsylvania down into Alabama.
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The full D.C. Circuit on Friday agreed to hear the House Judiciary Committee’s bid to secure testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn.
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Asking the full D.C. Circuit to rehear a controversial case on immunity for presidential advisers, the House Judiciary Committee argued Friday that the court’s failure to enforce subpoenas leaves Congress with few remedies, among them arresting White House officials.
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Two of four lawsuits claiming President Donald Trump has violated anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution return to the Fourth Circuit for a full en banc hearing Thursday.
Read moreThe en banc Seventh Circuit agreed Friday to rehear the overturned homicide conviction of “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey to determine if the intellectually disabled teen’s confession to rape and murder was voluntary.
Read moreWisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a petition Wednesday asking the en banc Seventh Circuit to rehear the overturned homicide conviction of “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey, who could be released from prison in September.
Read moreOhio’s three-drug execution protocol, which includes the use of a controversial sedative, will be argued before the entire Sixth Circuit, after a successful petition by the state.
Read moreThe constitutionality of government-led prayer will be determined by the entire Sixth Circuit in an en banc hearing, following a poll of its judges without a request from the parties involved.
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