Judge says he won’t dismiss Nicolás Maduro’s case over legal fees dispute

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North Carolina’s photo voter ID mandate can continue as a judge upholds the law

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s photo voter identification law was upheld on Thursday, as a federal judge rejected arguments by civil rights groups that Republicans enacted the requirement with discriminatory intent against Black and Latino voters. The decision by U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs, who presided in spring 2024 over a non-jury trial in a … Read more

Justice Department tells judge it incorrectly used ICE memo to justify immigration court arrests

The Justice Department this week conceded to a federal judge in New York it had been incorrectly citing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo to partially justify arrests at immigration courthouses, calling the oversight a “material mistaken statement of fact.” Justice Department lawyers disclosed in a letter on Tuesday that a May 2025 ICE memo … Read more

Judge fines San Francisco public defender after finding him in contempt for refusing new cases

SAN FRANCISCO — A judge has fined San Francisco’s public defender $26,000 for ignoring a January order to stop rejecting cases — a pattern that critics say is straining the city’s justice system. Public Defender Mano Raju began declining to represent some defendants in new felony and misdemeanor cases last May, citing a crushing workload … Read more

Judge calls Pentagon’s moves against AI firm Anthropic “troubling”: “It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic”

A judge sharply questioned a lawyer for the federal government on Tuesday over the Pentagon’s efforts to cut Anthropic out of its classified systems — the latest development in a dispute between the company and the Trump administration over AI guardrails. The back-and-forth revolves around Anthropic’s push to bar the military from using its AI … Read more

Biden-appointed judge rejects Trump HHS declaration on transgender treatments for kids

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden in 2023 has ruled that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overreached in his December declaration that “sex-rejecting procedures” for children were “neither safe nor effective.” U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai in Oregon ruled that … Read more

Judge cites ‘stand your ground’ law in clearing 3 more Florida officers in shooting of a UPS driver

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida judge on Monday cleared three more police officers of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a UPS driver who had been taken hostage during a 2019 robbery. Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled that Miami-Dade police officers Richard Santiesteban, Leslie Lee and Rodolfo Mirabal — who had been … Read more

Judge appoints new US attorney for New Jersey after Habba, other officials were disqualified

A veteran federal prosecutor was appointed Monday as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, ending a dispute between the judiciary and President Donald Trump over control of the office that included the disqualifications of the administration’s previous picks for the position. A U.S. District Court judge issued a one-sentence order naming Robert Frazer as the top … Read more

Pentagon to remove media offices from building after judge strikes down rules for reporters

The Defense Department said Monday it will remove media outlets’ office spaces from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters’ access to the building.  An area of the Pentagon known as “Correspondents’ Corridor” that reporters have used for decades to cover the U.S. … Read more