BATON ROUGE - The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday a Baton Rouge police officer's trial against Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson may proceed, but justices wouldn't weigh in on what they thought of Mckesson's claim that he enjoyed First Amendment protection for his actions.Former BRPD officer Brad Ford was hit in the face with a piece of asphalt thrown by protesters in the days after the shooting of Alton Sterling. Ford says Mckesson is responsible because he summoned a crowd to Baton...
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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter On Tuesday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on rioters involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which could potentially impact former President Donald Trump in his ongoing
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The International Court of Justice will hold public hearings on the preliminary objections raised by Azerbaijan in the case concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Armenia v. Azerbaijan) at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court, from Monday 15 to Friday 19 …
The Iowa Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday on whether the state’s six-week abortion ban should go into effect after a Polk County Judge temporarily blocked the law from being enacted. The court heard arguments Thursday on the constitutionality of an abortion ban in the state. State Solicitor General Eric Wessan argued the court should
Special Counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump's presidential immunity claims in a court filing on Monday, reiterating his stance that "no person is above the law."Smith is leading the federal prosecution of the former president, who's charged with unlawfully attempting to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The case is set to appear before the Supreme Court on April 25, as Trump presses to have the indictment dismissed on claims that...
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has suffered another legal setback — this time from the Supreme Court, which rejected his request to hear an appeal over the FBI’s seizure of his cellphone. In September 2022, FBI agents approached Lindell at a Hardee’s drive-thru in Minnesota and confiscated his phone as part of an investigation into possible voting machine tampering in Colorado in 2020. (Lindell was not charged in the case.) At the time, Lindell accused the FBI of being “weaponized” against him and...
The case could undo felony charges for the former president and hundreds of 6 January rioters.
The Supreme Court will consider whether part of a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute some of the rioters involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
Stuart Gilhooly says today’s decision leaves no doubt that the compensation system needs to be tackled once and for all.
The Marlboro Township Police Department said that threats were communicated to them about Marlboro Memorial Middle School and the Board of Education buildings.