An affirmative action case against Harvard University finally went to trial Monday, four years after a lawsuit was filed claiming the nation’s oldest college discriminates against prospective Asian-American students by considering race in the admissions process.
Read moreU.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked a federal judge Friday not to get involved with police reform in Chicago and reject a consent decree that the city and Illinois have been working on together for almost a year.
Read moreChicago claims U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions still refuses to release millions in federal policing funds because the city will not cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration policies, despite a nationwide injunction declaring such withholding unconstitutional.
Read moreAttorneys representing families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border filed an emergency motion to implement a settlement with the federal government late Wednesday, based on claims the government is dragging its feet in conducting asylum interviews so families languishing in detention opt for deportation.
Read moreCalling himself “a model cooperating witness,” former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates made a push Thursday to await sentencing without GPS monitoring.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Thursday waived dozens of laws in preparation for construction of 18 miles of border wall in South Texas, angering an environmental group that says the wall will spoil the habitat of numerous endangered species.
Read moreThe federal judge who presided over former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s fraud trial in Virginia wants to know when – or if – the special counsel’s team will pursue a series of counts the jury deadlocked on last summer.
Read moreA federal judge signed off on the forfeiture of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort’s Trump Tower apartment and his home in the Hamptons on Wednesday, ordering the Justice Department to take control of them later this month.
Read moreA former aide of longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone told the D.C. circuit late Tuesday that no law gives the attorney general the authority to appoint a private attorney to serve as special counsel.
Read moreNikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor whom President Donald Trump elevated to U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, resigned Tuesday without explanation.
Read moreMidterm elections are a little under a month away and according to outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, the contentious battle to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has electrified the Republican base.
Read moreThe Republican tax law signed by President Donald Trump this past December will be the focus of a group of Catholic nuns whose cross-country bus tour will end at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Read moreThe Senate on Saturday confirmed D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, bringing to a close a nomination that once seemed in peril after multiple women accused the judge of sexual misconduct.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday permanently barred the Trump administration from withholding policing grants from California, San Francisco and other so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the nation.
Read moreSen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced Friday afternoon that she will vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday, all but assuring his confirmation as the next associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreThe White House on Thursday announced number of refugees it will allow into the country in 2019, a number that is the lowest on record.
Read moreRetired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is quoted as saying that Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be confirmed to the high court because of Kavanaugh’s potential political bias.
Read moreThree concerned citizens could not stop President Donald Trump from testing out an emergency text alert that popped up on hundreds of millions of cellphones Wednesday afternoon.
Read moreA new international survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that while American allies want the U.S. to remain the world’s top superpower, confidence in American global leadership has fallen significantly under the Trump administration.
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