The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday announced that a grand jury indicted former Tallahassee mayor and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Demetric Gillum and the Board Chair and CEO of the National Black Justice Coalition Sharon Janet Lettman-Hicks on 21 charges, including making false statements to federal officials and wire fraud. The indictment alleges between 2016 [...]
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Republican US Senate candidate David McCormick Monday brought a lawsuit asking a Pennsylvania court to order counties to count undated mail-in ballots from the state’s May 17 primary. The ballots could impact the outcome of McCormick’s primary race against celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz. McCormick is less than 1,000 votes behind Oz. McCormick, a former [...]
Law firm withdraws from Trump campaign to block Biden win in Pennsylvania
The law firm representing President Trump on Friday withdrew from Trump’s campaign to block Joe Biden from winning the popular vote in Pennsylvania. The attorneys at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur filed an overnight motion to withdraw, leaving solo practitioner Linda A. Kearns to work on the case. “Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a [...]
House Judiciary Committee issues subpoena for former Trump aides
The US House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday issued two subpoenas for the testimony of former Donald Trump aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson. This comes hours after former White House Counsel Donald McGahn did not show up to testify at Trump’s request. McGahn is a key witness in the obstruction charges against Trump; he was allegedly [...]
House Judiciary Committee votes to issue subpoenas related to Mueller report
The US House Judiciary Committee voted 24-17 along party lines Wednesday to issue subpoenas related to the Mueller Report and President Donald Trump’s inner circle. The amendment authorizes Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to subpoena both documents and testimony. The amendment first authorizes subpoenas for documents and testimony related to: 1. Final report authored by [...]
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: California's Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its...
Supreme Court declines to hear Texas same-sex marriage benefits case
The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand a Texas Supreme Court ruling that did not extend spousal benefits to same-sex couples under employee insurance plans. The case began in 2013 when Jack Pidgeon and Larry Hicks...
Former Guantanamo detainee Hicks facing court on assault charges
Australian citizen and former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks made a court appearance on Tuesday in Adelaide on assault charges against his partner. Hicks was accused of assaulting his partner in September of last...
Australia is using the island of Nauru as an "open-air prison," putting refugees and asylum seekers through an abusive processing system as a means to prevent immigration, according to a report released by Amnesty International (AI) ...
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Gilbert of the University of Virginia School of Law discusses a decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on the Newby case, in reaction to Alabama, Kansas and Georgia's requirement on proof of citizenship before...