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2025/09/18 Senate rejects competing bills, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1
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2025/09/12 Military lawyers will serve as immigration judges as courts face massive backlog
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2025/08/22 Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates
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2025/08/18 Texas GOP Set to Trigger National Redistricting Battle With Map Vote
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2025/08/07 Colorado deputies disciplined for helping federal immigration agents
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2025/08/04 Trump plans 100% tariff on computer chips, unless companies build in US
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2025/08/02 Victims feeling exhausted and anxious about wrangling over Epstein files
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2025/07/02 International Criminal Court hit with cyber security attack
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2025/06/02 Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE
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2025/05/15 Trump Seeks Supreme Court Approval to End Protections for Venezuelans
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2025/05/09 Jury begins deliberating in UK trial of men accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree
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2025/04/30 Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy
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2025/04/25 Court won’t revive a Minnesota ban on gun-carry permits for young adults
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2025/04/15 International students file legal challenges over US visa revocations
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2025/03/30 US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection
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2025/03/12 Austria’s new government is stopping family reunions immediately for migrants
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2025/02/06 Elon Musk dodges DOGE scrutiny while expanding his power in Washington
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2025/01/24 South Korea’s Yoon defends his martial law decree - BLOG
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2025/01/23 Supreme Court allows small business registration rule to take effect
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2025/01/05 Rudy Giuliani is in contempt of court in $148 million defamation case
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2024/12/26 Appeals court overturns ex-49er Dana Stubblefield’s rape conviction
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2024/12/19 Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract
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2024/12/16 TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.
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2024/12/11 Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance
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2024/12/08 US inflation ticked up last month as some price pressures remain persistent
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2024/10/22 Kenya’s deputy president pleads not guilty in impeachment process
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2024/10/12 Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’
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2024/10/07 Supreme Court leaves in place two Biden environmental regulations
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2024/09/17 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment
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2024/09/14 Algerian court certifies Tebboune’s landslide reelection win
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2024/09/06 Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly
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2024/08/31 Supreme Court rebuffs plea to restore multibllliou-dollar student debt plan
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2024/08/22 Arkansas Supreme Court upholds rejection of abortion ballot measure
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2024/08/03 Turkey formally asks to join the genocide case against Israel at the UN court
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2024/07/08 A US appeals court will review its prior order keeping banned books
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2024/06/10 Trump's lawyers ask judge to lift gag order imposed during New York trial
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2024/06/04 Spanish court summons prime minister’s wife in corruption probe
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2024/05/31 Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
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2024/04/26 Starbucks appears likely to win Supreme Court dispute with federal labor agency
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2024/03/22 Alabama woman who faked kidnapping pleads guilty to false reporting
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2024/03/12 Trump wants N.Y. hush money trial to wait for Supreme Court immunity ruling
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2024/02/27 Donald Trump appeals $454 million judgment in New York civil fraud case
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2024/01/05 Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
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2024/01/02 Hong Kong activist publisher Lai pleads not guilty to sedition charges
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2023/11/16 Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users
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2023/11/13 Trump pushes for election interference trial to be televised
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2023/10/10 Biden’s second try at student loan cancellation moves forward with debate
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2023/10/02 Judge blocks 2 provisions in North Carolina’s new abortion law
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2023/09/04 New Supreme Court Fellows Begin Term
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2023/08/31 Ex-Catholic Cardinal McCarrick, age 93, found unfit to stand trial
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2023/08/24 Some states reject federal money to replace dangerous lead pipes
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2023/07/21 Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump
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2023/05/18 Suspect in fatal stabbing of Cash App founder pleads not guilty
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2023/05/01 Justices to consider case involving fishing boat monitor pay
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2023/04/26 German court: naked landlord doesn’t justify lower rent
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2023/04/21 Appeals court halts House interview with ex-Trump prosecutor
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2023/02/03 Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law
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2022/11/15 Justices asked to hear dog toy dispute. Will they bite?
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2022/10/27 Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico’s states
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2022/08/29 Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence
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2022/08/23 Judge rules teen was justified in shooting assailant 7 times
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2022/08/14 Appeals court puts Georgia PSC elections back on ballot
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2022/08/11 Federal horserace authority rules again blocked in 2 states
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2022/08/07 Probation for woman who wiped up blood after killing spouse
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2022/07/25 Louisiana Supreme Court’s chief justice reelected
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2022/04/27 Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to Breyer
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2022/04/16 Suit seeks to overturn renewed Philadelphia mask mandate
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2022/03/23 Naturopathic doctor sentenced for selling misbranded drugs
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2021/08/26 Idaho Supreme Court overturns tougher ballot initiative law
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2021/07/22 Bankruptcy proceedings can have long-term benefits
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2021/07/02 Ruling is final blow to New Hampshire voter registration law
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2021/05/13 Justices consider hearing a case on ‘most offensive word’
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2021/05/10 Court rules against state in emergency room boarding case
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2021/04/15 Alaska denied oil check benefits to gay couples, dependents
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2021/04/11 Court rules Norman violated FOIA when approving budget
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2021/04/08 NYC corruption case prompts dismissal of 90 drug convictions
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2021/04/05 High court sides with Google in copyright fight with Oracle
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2021/03/15 Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution
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2021/03/11 High court orders full disability for worker whose lost limb
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2021/02/19 Judge says lawyer who killed her son also tracked Sotomayor
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2021/02/16 European court rejects case vs Germany over Afghan airstrike
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2021/02/06 Justices: California can’t enforce indoor church service ban
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2021/01/21 Woman accused of helping steal Pelosi laptop freed from jail
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2021/01/17 Appeals court OKs convictions in college basketball scandal
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2020/12/27 Parents Plead Not Guilty to Charges in Missouri Girl's Death
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2020/12/20 Longtime Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Abrahamson dies
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2020/12/16 Senate confirms Barrett replacement on federal appeals court
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2020/12/05 Judge Calls Trump Request in Wisconsin Lawsuit 'Bizarre'
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2020/11/29 Pennsylvania high court rejects lawsuit challenging election
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2020/11/20 US government executes man convicted of killing Texas teen
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2020/11/14 Republicans face court setbacks, Trump law firm steps down
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2020/11/06 Election 2020 Today: No winner yet, Trump’s court threat
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2020/10/29 Supreme Court leaves NC absentee ballot deadline at Nov. 12
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2020/09/03 Slovakia court set to give verdict in reporter's slaying
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2020/09/01 Appeals court keeps Flynn case alive, won’t order dismissal
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2020/08/25 California justices toss death penalty for Scott Peterson
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2020/08/12 High court: Rhode Island mail-in voters don't need witnesses
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2020/07/24 Court denies AG's bid to halt initiative signature gathering
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2020/07/19 Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won’t retire
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2020/07/05 Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling
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2020/06/27 Supreme Court doesn’t wade into Texas mail-in voting battle
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2020/06/20 New Mexico high court rules on privacy for banking records
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2020/05/03 Court tosses NY case that could have expanded gun rights
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2020/04/07 Poland chamber penalizing judges must be suspended
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2020/04/05 Court drops rape, other charges against megachurch leader
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2020/04/02 Wisconsin moves forward with election despite virus concerns
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2020/01/08 Former IAAF president’s corruption trial opens in Paris
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2020/01/03 Iowa court: Automated speeding tickets not public record
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2019/12/23 High court upholds murder conviction for Albuquerque man
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2019/12/10 Fallen rights icon at UN court for Rohingya genocide case
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2019/12/01 Court sides with Congress in battle for Trump’s bank records
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2019/11/26 Supreme Court shields Trump’s financial records for now
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2019/11/19 EU court refers doubts on Polish judiciary to national court
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2019/11/11 As ruling nears, immigrant fights for anti-deportation act
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2019/11/06 Court sentences Congo warlord to 30 years for atrocities
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2019/10/18 The Latest: EU Parliament to be flexible on ratifying Brexit
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2019/10/01 Carnival execs back in court on ocean pollution case
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2019/09/29 Transgender woman in Supreme Court case 'happy being me'
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2019/09/16 High Court overturns city mandate on construction projects
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2019/08/30 Activist loses UK court case on police facial recognition
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2019/08/10 Suspect in Norway mosque attack bruised but smiling in court
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2019/08/08 Gun-control backers concerned about changing federal courts
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2019/07/24 Louisiana judge orders man's mouth taped for interruptions
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2019/06/14 Ohio high court won't hear challenge over bite-mark evidence
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2019/06/01 Kevin Spacey appears at court for hearing in groping case
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2019/05/23 South Africa's Zuma must wait 3 months for court decision
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2019/05/21 Russian court extends arrest for American accused of spying
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2019/05/20 Brazil's supreme court votes to make homophobia a crime
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2019/05/16 Feds: US Supreme Court should turn down 'Bridgegate' appeal
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2019/05/12 Students in Colorado shooting face murder, other charges
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2019/05/04 Trump, GOP states ask appeals court to kill ‘Obamacare’
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2019/05/03 Arizona court says Costco can be sued over ED drug disclosure
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2019/04/29 Roggensack Re-Elected as Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief
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2019/04/23 Ohio top court to hear arguments in TV news defamation case
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2019/04/21 Myanmar court rejects appeal of jailed Reuters reporters
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2019/04/19 Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases
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2019/04/13 Texas’ high court keeps execution drug supplier secret
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2019/04/08 Court finds WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange guilty
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2019/04/04 Texas bans clergy from executions after Supreme Court ruling
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2019/03/22 K-pop star Jung Joon-young arrested in sex video scandal
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2019/03/18 Veterans court may be collateral damage in immigration fight
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2019/03/14 Detained Saudi women's rights activists brought to court
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2019/03/02 Japan court OK's Nissan ex-Chairman Ghosn's release on bail
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2019/02/25 Governor says 'no executions' without court-backed drugs
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2019/02/21 Court upholds car rental tax imposed in Maricopa County
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2019/02/09 Opera singer, husband appear in court on sex assault charge
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2019/02/04 Appellate judge announces run for Supreme Court seat
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2018/12/17 Colorado baker returns to court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
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2018/10/18 Maldives court overturns prison term for ex-president
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2018/09/07 Pipeline company found guilty in 2015 California oil spill
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2018/09/04 Cooper, GOP lawmakers back in court on altered amendments
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2018/08/22 Sen. Collins, potential swing vote, meets with Kavanaugh
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2018/07/08 Supreme Court enjoys relatively high public confidence
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2018/06/25 Police shooting of boy spurs more protests, appeals
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2018/06/19 Outgoing Indiana Senate president gets major law firm job
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2018/05/18 Judge allows Palin's son therapeutic court for proceedings
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2018/04/07 Indian court grants bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan
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2018/04/05 Democrats Claim Victory In Wisconsin's Supreme Court Race
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2018/01/25 Analysis: Outside groups may factor in Arkansas court race
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2018/01/22 Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court
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2017/12/22 Top Connecticut court cases in 2018 involve Newtown, Skakel
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2017/12/17 Ohio court to hear big online school's funding case Feb. 13
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2017/12/14 Greek court backs extraditing Russian bitcoin suspect to US
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2017/12/09 Travel ban is headed back to a federal appeals court in Virginia
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2017/12/04 Court to hear bid to dismiss lawsuit in Freddie Gray case
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2017/12/01 Russian court keeps theater director under house arrest
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2017/11/25 Asbestos Court to resolve hundreds of claims
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2017/10/01 With 2 in 3 months, Ohio executions could be back on track
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2017/09/22 Kenya Supreme Court says why it annulled presidential poll
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2017/09/21 Toys R Us files for Chapter 11 reorganization
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2017/08/02 Mental health court established for offenders on probation
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2017/06/06 Alabama asks US Supreme Court to let execution proceed
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2017/05/05 Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman returns to court in drug case
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2017/05/03 Trump 'absolutely' considered breaking up 9th Circuit Court
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2017/05/02 Connecticut court takes up doctor-patient confidentiality
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2017/04/16 Court blocks planned executions, prompting state challenge
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2017/04/03 New Ohio lethal injection process rejected by appeals court
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2017/01/15 Supreme Court delays New Jersey sports betting decision
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2017/01/04 Circus operator agrees to plea deal in tent collapse
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2016/08/19 Polish prosecutors investigate court head for abuse of power
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2016/08/09 Appeals court hands loss to New Jersey sports betting effort
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2016/06/09 Appeals court denies Hope Solo's bid to avoid trial
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2016/02/28 African-American voters see court fight as affront to Obama
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2016/02/25 Court records: Apple's help sought in another iPhone case
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2016/01/30 Texas renews bid for court-imposed refugee restrictions
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2015/09/03 Court: Transgender asylum seekers can't be equated with gays
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2015/07/23 NY state Sen. Sampson found guilty of obstruction
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2015/06/25 Supreme Court upholds key tool for fighting housing bias
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2015/06/04 Judge grants new trial in death of intern Chandra Levy
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2014/09/04 Texas abortion clinic to reopen after court ruling
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2013/11/02 Washington, DC Criminal Defense Lawyer
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2013/08/29 Italian court insists Berlusconi devised tax fraud
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2013/07/17 Court: Legal status can't be used in civil cases
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2013/07/09 NJ court overturns award for view lost to dune
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2013/06/26 Supreme Court strikes federal marriage provision
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2013/05/25 Court denies second hearing on Medi-Cal rate cut
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2013/03/28 NY top court OKs tax on online sellers like Amazon
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2012/10/27 Retail group against revised card settlement
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2012/08/29 Apple lists 8 Samsung products it wants banned
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2012/07/22 China Trademark & Patent Law Office - CTPLO
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2012/07/11 Wis. town barred from beefing up farm water rules
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2012/06/28 High court ruling vindicates Obama on health care
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2012/05/26 Wash. lawyers challenge secret court proceedings
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2012/05/08 Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP Announces Class Action
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2012/03/12 Belgium seeks world court order on ex-Chad leader
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2012/03/01 Judge blocks day labor rules in AZ immigration law
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2012/02/28 Proof of a Negative Not Required for Summary Judgment
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2012/02/24 Eugene Family Law Firm - MJM Law Office, P.C.
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2012/02/15 US justice rejects death penalty law he wrote
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2012/02/08 Experts: Marriage ban's path to high court unclear
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2012/01/30 Law Firm Brower Piven Announces Investigation
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2012/01/17 14 people arrested during Supreme Court protest
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2012/01/11 Court:Judges cannot get involved in church dispute
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2012/01/10 Nevada Supreme Court reaches 60,000th case
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2012/01/04 Court delays border-crossing pollution rule
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2011/12/12 High court halts new Texas electoral maps
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2011/12/05 Court: State prisoners count at home in redistricting
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2011/11/18 RI pension overhaul may head to the courts
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2011/11/08 Saxena White P.A. Files a Securities Fraud Class Action
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2011/11/01 Scandal-plagued former Bell official sues city
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2011/10/31 Pensions the latest political risk for RI governor
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2011/10/18 Greenberg Traurig Receives 2 International M&A Advisor Awards
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2011/10/17 High court to rule on Stolen Valor Act
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2011/10/17 Court blocks Ala. from checking student status
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2011/10/05 Ga. ban on guns in places of worship before court
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2011/09/28 Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Omnicare, Inc.
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2011/09/26 Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action
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2011/09/26 Obama sells jobs plan in Silicon Valley
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2011/09/01 Group seeks appellate action on gays in military
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2011/08/31 Shareholder class action hits Leighton
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2011/08/26 Motion to bar Montana, Idaho wolf hunts denied
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2011/08/23 Berman DeValerio Announces Securities Class Action
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2011/08/14 Nigerian who allegedly scammed 80 law firms, lawyers out of $31M extradited to US
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2011/08/01 Layoffs loom in Ala. court clerks' offices
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2011/07/15 Soldiers seek foreclosures class action
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2011/07/04 Former Wyoming governor joins law firm
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2011/07/03 Law school enrollment in Missouri lags as legal jobs dry up
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2011/06/20 US court lets class action against Bayer proceed
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2011/06/13 NY jury convicts 3 in NYC hedge fund trial
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2011/05/23 Texas lawyer wants extra pollution controls nixed
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2011/05/16 Police investigate threats to Indiana Supreme Court
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2011/05/12 Worldwide interest as Canada drug program in court
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2011/05/09 Courts nationwide hold hearings with video
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2011/05/04 LA lawsuit claims Deutsche Bank is 'slumlord'
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2011/05/02 Bachmann uses Holocaust to illustrate tax point
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2011/04/27 Conn. high court hears death penalty appeal
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2011/04/25 Court denies Va. inmate's lawsuit over beard
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2011/04/25 Md. court considering same-sex spousal privilege
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2011/04/18 Court turns down appeal in murder plot case
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2011/04/10 Immigration court: Troubled system, long waits
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2011/03/24 Oregon appeals court: Teeth not dangerous weapon
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2011/02/02 Hoekstra to join Washington law and lobbying firm
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2011/01/26 Court says convicted lawyer unfit to practice law
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2011/01/26 Journal seeks to end ban on Medicare data
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2011/01/18 Court won't hear appeal from NY couple
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2011/01/03 Lawyer: Feds probe pilot critical of air security
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2011/01/02 Fees for Madoff trustee's law firm top $50 million
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2010/12/27 Obama's economist pick seen as sign of new agenda
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2010/12/19 Arizona, Nevada sue BofA over loan modifications
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2010/12/19 Lawyer for disgraced celebrity adviser is arrested
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2010/11/02 California marijuana legalization goes up in smoke
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2010/10/04 Reed Smith considering merger with Texas firm
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2010/08/30 Facebook sued in California over teen endorsements
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2010/08/17 Legal Talk Show, Lawyer Websites - Roger Clark
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2010/08/09 David Boies Urges ABA Members
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2010/07/20 Cohen & Grigsby Adds Further Depth to Practice Areas
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2010/07/12 Judicial Vacancies Slow the Wheels of Justice
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2010/06/19 At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'
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2010/06/14 High court rejects appeal in rendition case
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2010/06/08 IMMIGRATION DEPORTATION DEFENSE LAWYERS
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2010/05/24 Immigration rally disrupts downtown Seattle
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2010/04/16 Former Clinton Counsel Lanny Davis Forms Own Law Firm
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2010/01/14 L.A. Law firm suing China suffers attack
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2008/11/05 Coleman leads Al Franken in Minn. Senate race
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2008/10/07 FDIC Sued for Shorting $478,638 From Accounts
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2008/09/22 NY. AG to investigate allegations of stock price manipulation
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2008/07/23 Military law could change Supreme Court ruling
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2008/07/21 Court Tosses Fine For 'Waldrobe Malfunction'
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2008/07/18 Save The Plastic Bag Coalition Sues Los Angeles County
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2008/07/17 Actor John Cusack Files Suit
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2008/07/16 Ex-Model Brinkley Settles Divorce For $2.1 Million
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2008/07/15 Federal court rules eBay has no duty to police trademarks
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2008/07/14 Federal appeals court rejects clean air regulation
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2008/07/11 Virginia lethal injection doesn't violate Constitution
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2008/07/10 NYC subway bomb plotter conviction affirmed on appeal
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2008/07/09 Genome mapping companies discuss legal limitations
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2008/07/08 Court Upholds Right To Display Fetus Photos
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2008/03/02 Source: The Rosen Law Firm PA
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2008/02/21 Court Extends Cross-Examination Rule
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2008/02/19 Court to Consider Suppression Case
The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.
Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the other side for the standoff. Democrats accused Republicans of not negotiating with them to address some of their priorities on health care as part of the funding measure, even though they knew Democratic votes would be needed to get a bill to the president’s desk.
Republicans said Democrats were making demands that would dramatically increase spending and were not germane to the core issue of keeping agencies fully running for a short period of time while negotiations continued on a full-year spending package.
It’s unclear how the two sides will be able to avoid a shutdown. Republicans are planning on what amounts to a do-over vote on their proposal close to the deadline in the hopes that more Democrats will have second thoughts. Democrats are repeating their demand that Republicans sit down with them and work on a compromise.
“The theater must end,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said after the vote. “Let’s sit down and negotiate.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., gave no indication of a change in course.
“All it takes is a handful of Democrats to join the Republicans in keeping the government open and funded, and to ensure we have a chance to get the appropriations process completed in the way it was intended,” Thune said.
The Senate action came after the House earlier in the day passed the Republican-led funding bill. The measure would extend government funding generally at current levels for seven weeks. The bill would also add about $88 million in security funding for lawmakers and members of the Supreme Court and executive branch in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The vote was 217-212. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the lone Democratic member to support the bill. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., also said she tried to vote for the bill but was not recognized by the presiding officer. She was listed officially as not voting.
House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana said he knew he had few votes to spare as he sought to persuade fellow Republicans to vote for the funding patch, something many in his conference have routinely opposed in past budget fights. But this time, GOP members saw a chance to portray the Democrats as responsible for a shutdown.
“The ball is in Chuck Schumer’s court. I hope he does the right thing. I hope he does not choose to shut the government down and inflict pain on the American people,” Johnson said.
President Donald Trump had urged House Republicans to pass the bill and put the burden on Democrats to oppose it. GOP leaders often need Trump’s help to win over holdouts on legislation.
Trump predicted Friday that there could be “a closed country for a period of time.” He said the government will continue to “take care” of the military and Social Security payments in a closure.
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said that in opposing the continuing resolution, Democrats were working to protect the health care of the American people. He said that with Republicans controlling the White House and both branches of Congress, “Republicans will own a government shutdown. Period. Full stop.”
The Senate moved quickly after the House vote to take up the measure plus the Democratic counter. Both bills fell far short of the 60 votes required for passage.
The Democratic proposal would extend enhanced health insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, plus reverse Medicaid cuts that were included in Republicans’ big tax breaks and spending cuts bill enacted earlier this year.
The Democratic measure actually received more votes than the Republican one due to absences. The 47-45 vote went strictly along party lines.
“The American people will look at what Republicans are doing, look at what Democrats are doing, and it will be clear that public sentiment will be on our side,” Schumer said.
The Republican measure gained 44 votes, including from Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. But 48 voted against it, including two Republicans, Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.
The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys — both military and civilians — to the Justice Department “as soon as practicable,” and the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, according to the Aug. 27 memo.
The effort comes as the Trump administration more regularly turns to the military as it cracks down on illegal immigration through ramped-up arrests and deportations. Its growing role in the push includes troops patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border, National Guard members being sent into U.S. cities to support immigration enforcement efforts, housing people awaiting deportation on military bases and using military aircraft to carry out deportations.
The administration’s focus on illegal immigration has added strain to the immigration courts, which were already dealing with a massive backlog of roughly 3.5 million cases that has ballooned in recent years. An organization for immigration lawyers called the new directive a “destructive” move meant to undermine the courts.
At the same time, more than 100 immigration judges have been fired or left voluntarily after taking deferred resignations offered by the Trump administration, their union says. In the most recent round of terminations, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers said in July that at least 17 immigration judges had been fired “without cause” in courts across the country.
That has left about 600 immigration judges, union figures show, meaning the Pentagon move would double their ranks.
The Justice Department, which oversees the immigration courts, requested the assistance from the Defense Department, according to the memo sent by the Pentagon’s executive secretary to his DOJ counterpart. The military lawyers’ duties as immigration judges will initially last no more than 179 days but can be renewed, it said.
A DOJ spokesperson referred questions about the plan to the Defense Department, where officials directed questions to the White House.
A White House official said Tuesday that the administration is looking at a variety of options to help resolve the significant backlog of immigration cases, including hiring additional immigration judges. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the matter should be “a priority that everyone — including those waiting for adjudication — can rally around.”
The head of the American Immigration Lawyers Association decried bringing in temporary judges who lack expertise in immigration law, saying “it makes as much as sense as having a cardiologist do a hip replacement.”
“Expecting fair decisions from judges unfamiliar with the law is absurd. This reckless move guts due process and further undermines the integrity of our immigration court system,” said Ben Johnson, the organization’s executive director.
The memo stressed that the additional attorneys are contingent on availability and that mobilizing reserve officers may be necessary. Plus, the document said DOJ would be responsible for ensuring that anyone sent from the Pentagon does not violate the federal prohibition on using the military as domestic law enforcement, known as the Posse Comitatus Act.
The administration faced a setback on its efforts to use troops in unique ways to combat illegal immigration and crime, with a court ruling Tuesday that it “willfully” violated federal law by sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles in early June.
It is not immediately clear what impact shifting that number of military attorneys would have on the armed forces’ justice system. The attorneys, called judge advocates, have a range of duties much like civilian lawyers, from carrying out prosecutions, acting as a defense attorney or offering legal advice.
Pentagon officials did immediately offer details on where any of the 600 attorneys will be drawn from and whether they will come from active duty or the reserves.
Until she was abruptly fired in July, former supervising judge Jennifer Peyton administered the intensive training that all judges in Chicago undergo before working in some of the busiest immigration courts in the country. After the weekslong training, new judges are paired with an experienced mentor and have a two-year probationary period.
Peyton doubted that military attorneys would be able to master the complexities of immigration law without that rigorous process. She also said it wasn’t clear how they would handle the hundreds, or sometimes thousands, of cases on just a Chicago immigration judge’s docket each year.
“Six months is barely enough time to start to figure out the firehose of information and training,” she said.
Peyton also was concerned that Trump’s move didn’t supply more administrative workers, including translators, whom judges rely on to make decisions. The stakes, she said, were life or death for people who would come before the new judges.
“None of it makes sense unless you were intentionally trying to weaken the immigration courts,” Peyton said.
A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who already were troubled by the disappearance of data sets from government websites after President Donald Trump began his second term.
The https://www.reginfo.gov/public/ website went offline at the end of last week and was partially restored this week. Data was missing after Aug. 1, according to dataindex,us, a collective of data scientists and advocates who monitor changes in federal data sets.
As of Thursday, the website’s landing page said, it was “currently undergoing revisions.” Emailed inquiries to the Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration weren’t returned on Thursday.
In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s official public portal for health data, data.cdc.gov, was taken down entirely but subsequently went back up. Around the same time, when a query was made to access certain public data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most comprehensive survey of American life, users for several days got a response that said the area was “unavailable due to maintenance” before access was restored.
Researchers Janet Freilich and Aaron Kesselheim examined 232 federal public health data sets that had been modified in the first quarter of this year and found that almost half had been “substantially altered,” with the majority having the word “gender” switched to “sex,” they wrote last month in The Lancet medical journal.
Former Census Bureau official Chris Dick, who is part of the dataindex.us team, said Thursday that no one is quite sure what is going on with the regulatory affairs website, whether there was an update with technical difficulties because of staffing shortages from job cuts or something more nefarious.
“This is key infrastructure that needs to come back,” Dick said. “Usually, you can fix this quickly. It’s not super normal for this to go on for days.”
The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP.
The vote follows prodding by President Donald Trump, eager to stave off a midterm defeat that would deprive his party of control of the House of Representatives, and weeks of delays after dozens of Texas Democratic state lawmakers fled the state in protest. Some Democrats returned Monday, only to be assigned round-the-clock police escorts to ensure their attendance at Wednesday’s session. Those who refused to be monitored were confined to the House floor, where they protested on a livestream Tuesday night.
Furious national Democrats have vowed payback for the Texas map, with California’s legislature poised to approve new maps adding more Democratic-friendly seats later this week. The map would still need to be approved by that state’s voters in November.
Normally, states redraw maps once a decade with new census figures. But Trump is lobbying other conservative-controlled states like Indiana and Missouri to also try to squeeze new GOP-friendly seats out of their maps as his party prepares for a difficult midterm election next year.
In Texas, Democrats spent the day before the vote continuing to draw attention to the extraordinary lengths the Republicans who run the legislature were going to ensure it takes place. Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier started it when she refused to sign what Democrats called the “permission slip” needed to leave the House chamber, a half-page form allowing Department of Public Safety troopers to follow them. She spent Monday night and Tuesday on the House floor, where she set up a livestream while her Democratic colleagues outside had plainclothes officers following them to their offices and homes.
Dallas-area Rep. Linda Garcia said she drove three hours home from Austin with an officer following her. When she went grocery shopping, he went down every aisle with her, pretending to shop, she said. As she spoke to The Associated Press by phone, two unmarked cars with officers inside were parked outside her home.
“It’s a weird feeling,” she said. “The only way to explain the entire process is: It’s like I’m in a movie.”
The trooper assignments, ordered by Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows, was another escalation of a redistricting battle that has widened across the country. Trump is pushing GOP state officials to tilt the map for the 2026 midterms more in his favor to preserve the GOP’s slim House majority, and Democrats nationally have rallied around efforts to retaliate.
House Minority Leader Gene Wu, from Houston, and state Rep. Vince Perez, of El Paso, stayed overnight with Collier, who represents a minority-majority district in Fort Worth.
On Tuesday, more Democrats returned to the Capitol to tear up the slips they had signed and stay on the House floor, which has a lounge and restrooms for members.
Dallas-area Rep. Cassandra Garcia Hernandez called their protest a “slumber party for democracy,” and she said Democrats were holding strategy sessions on the floor.
“We are not criminals,” Houston Rep. Penny Morales Shaw said.
Collier said having officers shadow her was an attack on her dignity and an attempt to control her movements.
Burrows brushed off Collier’s protest, saying he was focused on important issues, such as providing property tax relief and responding to last month’s deadly floods. His statement Tuesday morning did not mention redistricting, and his office did not immediately respond to other Democrats joining Collier.
“Rep. Collier’s choice to stay and not sign the permission slip is well within her rights under the House Rules,” Burrows said.
Under those rules, until Wednesday’s scheduled vote, the chamber’s doors are locked, and no member can leave “without the written permission of the speaker.”
To do business Wednesday, 100 of 150 House members must be present. The GOP plan is designed to send five additional Republicans from Texas to the U.S. House. Texas Democrats returned to Austin after Democrats in California launched an effort to redraw their state’s districts to take five seats from Republicans.
Democrats also said they were returning because they expect to challenge the new maps in court.
Two Colorado deputies have been disciplined for violating state law by helping federal agents make immigration arrests, and their sheriff says officers from other agencies have done the same.
One of the deputies, Alexander Zwinck, was sued by Colorado’s attorney general last week, after his cooperation with federal immigration agents on a drug task force was revealed following the June arrest of a college student from Brazil with an expired visa.
Following an internal investigation, a second Mesa County Sheriff’s Office deputy and task force member, Erik Olson, was also found to have shared information. The two deputies used a Signal chat to relay information to federal agents, according to documents released Wednesday by the sheriff’s office.
Zwinck was placed on three weeks of unpaid leave, and Olson was given two weeks of unpaid leave, Mesa County Sheriff Todd Rowell said in a statement. Both were removed from the task force.
Two supervisors also were disciplined. One was suspended without pay for two days, and another received a letter of reprimand. A third supervisor received counseling.
State laws push back against Trump crackdown
The lawsuit and disciplinary actions come as lawmakers in Colorado and other Democratic-led states have crafted legislation intended to push back against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Since Trump took office, pro-immigrant bills have advanced through legislatures in Illinois, Vermont, California, Connecticut and other states. The measures include stronger protections for immigrants in housing, employment and police encounters.
Trump has enlisted hundreds of state and local law enforcement agencies to help identify immigrants in the U.S. illegally and detain them for potential deportation. The Republican also relaxed longtime rules restricting immigration enforcement near schools, churches and hospitals.
Zwinck was sued under a new state law signed by Gov. Jared Polis about two weeks before the arrest of the student from Brazil. It bars local government employees including law enforcement from sharing identifying information about people with federal immigration officials. Previously, only state agencies were barred from doing that. It’s one of a series of laws limiting the state’s involvement in immigration enforcement passed over the years that has drawn criticism and a lawsuit from the federal government.
The U.S. Department of Justice has also sued Illinois and New York, as well as several cities in those states and New Jersey, alleging their policies violate the U.S. Constitution or federal immigration laws.
Officers say they were following established procedures
Zwinck and Olson told officials they thought they were operating according to long-standing procedures.
However, the internal investigation found they had both received and read two emails prior to the passage of the new law about previous limits on cooperation with immigration officials. The most recent was sent on Jan. 30, 2025, after an official for Homeland Security Investigations, part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, had asked state and local law enforcement officers at a law enforcement meeting to contact HSI or ICE if they arrested a person for a violent crime who was believed not to be a citizen, the investigation documents said. The email said not to contact HSI or ICE.
Zwinck said he didn’t know about the new law and was not interested in immigration enforcement.
“When I was out there, I wanted to find drugs, guns and bad guys,” Zwinck said at a July 23 disciplinary hearing. “And sending that information to HSI they provided the ability to give me real time background information on the person I was in contact with,” he said.
Olson, who said he had been with the sheriff’s office 18 years, testified at his disciplinary hearing that it was “standard practice” to send information up to federal agents during traffic stops.
“It was routine for ICE to show up on the back end of a traffic stop to do their thing,” Olson said. “I truly thought what we were doing was condoned by our supervision and lawful.”
A lawyer at a law firm listed as representing both deputies, Michael Lowe, did not immediately return a telephone call or email seeking comment.
Rowell said drug task force members from other law enforcement agencies, including the Colorado State Patrol, also shared information with immigration agents on the Signal chat. The state patrol denied the claim.
The sheriff faulted Attorney General Phil Weiser for filing the lawsuit against Zwinck before a local internal investigation was complete. He called on the Democrat, who is running for governor, to drop it.
“As it stands, the lawsuit filed by the Attorney General’s Office sends a demoralizing message to law enforcement officers across Colorado — that the law may be wielded selectively and publicly for maximum political effect rather than applied fairly and consistently,” he said.
Weiser said last week that he was investigating whether other officers in the chat violated the law.
Spokesperson Lawrence Pacheco said Weiser was presented with evidence of a “blatant violation of state law” and had to act.
“The attorney general has a duty to enforce state laws and protect Coloradans and he’ll continue to do so,” Pacheco said.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will impose a 100% tariff on computer chips, raising the specter of higher prices for electronics, autos, household appliances and other essential products dependent on the processors powering the digital age.
“We’ll be putting a tariff of approximately 100% on chips and semiconductors,” Trump said in the Oval Office while meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook. “But if you’re building in the United States of America, there’s no charge.”
The announcement came more than three months after Trump temporarily exempted most electronics from his administration’s most onerous tariffs.
The Republican president said companies that make computer chips in the U.S. would be spared the import tax. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a shortage of computer chips increased the price of autos and contributed to higher inflation.
Investors seemed to interpret the potential tariff exemptions as a positive for Apple and other major tech companies that have been making huge financial commitments to manufacture more chips and other components in the U.S..
Big Tech already has made collective commitments to invest about $1.5 trillion in the U.S. since Trump moved back into the White House in January. That figure includes a $600 billion promise from Apple after the iPhone maker boosted its commitment by tacking another $100 billion on to a previous commitment made in February.
Now the question is whether the deal brokered between Cook and Trump will be enough to insulate the millions of iPhones made in China and India from the tariffs that the administration has already imposed and reduce the pressure on the company to raise prices on the new models expected to be unveiled next month.
Wall Street certainly seems to think so. After Apple’s stock price gained 5% in Wednesday regular trading sessions, the shares rose by another 3% in extended trading after Trump announced some tech companies won’t be hit with the latest tariffs while Cook stood alongside him.
The shares of AI chipmaker Nvidia, which also has recently made big commitments to the U.S., rose slightly in extended trading to add to the $1 trillion gain in market value the Silicon Valley company has made since the start of Trump’s second administration.
The stock price of computer chip pioneer Intel, which has fallen on hard times, also climbed in extended trading.
Inquiries sent to chip makers Nvidia and Intel were not immediately answered. The chip industry’s main trade group, the Semiconductor Industry Association, declined to comment on Trump’s latest tariffs.
Demand for computer chips has been climbing worldwide, with sales increasing 19.6% in the year-ended in June, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization.
Trump’s tariff threats mark a significant break from existing plans to revive computer chip production in the U.S. that were drawn up during the administration of President Joe Biden.
Since taking over from Biden, Trump has been deploying tariffs to incentivize more domestic production. Essentially, the president is betting that the threat of dramatically higher chip costs would force most companies to open factories domestically, despite the risk that tariffs could squeeze corporate profits and push up prices for mobile phones, TVs and refrigerators.
By contrast, the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act that Biden signed into law in 2022 provided more than $50 billion to support new computer chip plants, fund research and train workers for the industry. The mix of funding support, tax credits and other financial incentives were meant to draw in private investment, a strategy that Trump has vocally opposed.
Women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein are feeling skeptical and anxious about the Justice Department’s handling of records related to the convicted sex offender, with some backing more public disclosures as an overdue measure of transparency, and others expressing concerns about their privacy and the Trump administration’s motivations.
In letters addressed to federal judges in New York this week, several victims or their attorneys said they would support the public release of grand jury testimony that led to criminal indictments against Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell — if the government agreed to allow them to review the material and redact sensitive information.
The Justice Department has asked the court to take the rare step of unsealing transcripts of that secret testimony, in part to placate people who believe that the government has hidden some things it knows about Epstein’s wrongdoing.
Other victims, meanwhile, accused President Donald Trump of sidelining victims as he seeks to shift the focus from Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges that he habitually sexually abused underage girls. Some expressed concern that the administration — in its eagerness to make the scandal go away — might give Maxwell clemency, immunity from future prosecution or better living conditions in prison as part of a deal to get her to testify before Congress.
“I am not some pawn in your political warfare,” one alleged victim wrote in a letter submitted to the court by her lawyer this week. “What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely.”
Added another victim, in a letter submitted anonymously on Wednesday: “This is all very exhausting.”
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. A top Justice Department official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, interviewed Maxwell for nine hours late last month, saying he wanted to hear anything she had to say about misdeeds committed by Epstein or others. After that interview, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.
Alicia Arden, who said Epstein sexually assaulted her in the late 1990s, held a news conference on Wednesday in Los Angeles. She said she would support the release of additional material related to the case, including a transcript of Maxwell’s interview with Blanche.
But she also expressed outrage at the possibility that Maxwell could receive clemency or other special treatment through the process, adding that the Justice Department’s approach had been “very upsetting” so far.
The Trump administration has faced weeks of furor from some segments of the president’s political base, which have demanded public disclosure of files related to Epstein. Epstein has long been the subject of conspiracy theories because of his friendships with the rich and powerful, including Trump himself, Britain’s Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton.
Last month, the Justice Department announced it would not release additional files related to the Epstein sex trafficking investigation.
Prosecutors later asked to unseal the grand jury transcripts, though they’ve told the court they contain little information that hasn’t already been made public. Two judges who will decide whether to release the transcripts then asked victims to share their views on the matter.
In a letter submitted to the court Tuesday, attorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, who represent numerous Epstein victims, wrote: “For survivors who bravely testified, the perception that Ms. Maxwell is being legitimized in public discourse has already resulted in re-traumatization.”
An attorney for Maxwell, David Oscar Markus, said this week that she opposed the release of the grand jury transcripts.
“Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not,” he wrote. “Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable, and her due process rights remain.”
The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment on the victims’ statements.