WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday to make it harder for the federal government to use a section of tax law to convict someone of obstruction. The government had interpreted a section of the tax code to give it ...
Read More »GOP lawmakers seek to impeach judges over map
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Twelve Republican state legislators in Pennsylvania have signed on to resolutions introduced Tuesday that seek to impeach four Democratic justices on the state Supreme Court over rulings in a congressional redistricting case. The four nearly identical resolutions ...
Read More »Black man convicted by all-white jury seeks new trial
ATLANTA — Prosecutors in west Georgia focused on the race of black potential jurors as they purposely and systematically excluded them from the trials of black men facing the death penalty four decades ago, lawyers for one of the men ...
Read More »Screnock plays tuba in his first Supreme Court TV ad
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Michael Screnock plays the tuba in his first television ad of the campaign that comes less than two weeks before the April 3 election. Screnock’s campaign said Wednesday the ad is running statewide. ...
Read More »Supreme Court questions crisis pregnancy center law
WASHINGTON — A skeptical Supreme Court took aim Tuesday at a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion. A ruling striking down the law could doom similar laws in Hawaii and Illinois, and also ...
Read More »Muslim engineer sues after Kansas flap over Malaysian flag
WICHITA, Kan. — A Muslim aerospace engineer has sued the Spirit Boeing Employees Association for religious discrimination stemming from a party at a lake in Wichita. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Friday on behalf of Munir ...
Read More »Minneapolis officer charged in shooting of Australian woman
A Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Australian woman in July was booked into jail Tuesday.
Read More »Alleged leader of mosque bombing could be threatening figure
By MICHAEL TARM, AMY FORLITI and TERESA CRAWFORD CLARENCE, Ill. — A former sheriff’s deputy and purported ringleader in the bombing of a Minnesota mosque emerges in court documents as a sometimes-threatening figure with anti-government views who also wrote books ...
Read More »Oregon court suspends judge who refused to marry gays
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday handed down the longest suspension in its history to a judge who refused to marry gay couples in the state, but stopped short of removing him from office. Marion County Circuit ...
Read More »Jury awards $3.7M to former UMD women’s hockey coach
DULUTH, Minn. — A federal jury has awarded nearly $3.75 million to a former women’s hockey coach who sued the University of Minnesota Duluth for alleged discrimination and retaliation. The jury on Thursday awarded Shannon Miller more than $744,000 for ...
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