Recent Updates
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Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh clears crucial Senate hurdle
National Legal News 10/01/2018A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle Friday, setting up a likely final showdown this weekend in a battle that's seen claims of long-ago sexual assault by the nominee threaten President...
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3 hurt in court shooting leave hospital; gunman identified
National Legal News 09/22/2018The wife of a gunman killed after he opened fire at a Pennsylvania municipal building Wednesday said in a social media post that she was OK but did not say whether she had been injured in the shooting.Crystal Dowdell, 39, posted on her Facebook accou...
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EU backs ICC after US questions court's legitimacy
National Legal News 09/13/2018The European Union's top diplomat says the bloc remains a staunch supporter of the International Criminal Court despite U.S. condemnation of the tribunal.EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Thursday that "we will continue to fully and str...
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Senate begins final day of Supreme Court nominee hearings
National Legal News 09/08/2018Senators began the fourth and final day of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday, but with the nominee finished answering questions the day they seemed unlikely to alter his path to confirmation.Senate Democrats worked into the...
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Trump taking Supreme Court fight to Montana, North Dakota
National Legal News 09/05/2018President Donald Trump is taking the Washington debate over his Supreme Court nominee to the homes of two red-state Senate Democrats this week, elevating Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as a political litmus test for voters.Trump's strategy aims...
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Alabama Supreme Court won't move lawsuit against Moore
National Legal News 08/19/2018The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to transfer a defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore by a woman who says Moore molested her decades ago.The court denied Moore's request to have the case heard in Etowah County in...
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Lawyers ask US Supreme Court to stay Tennessee execution
National Legal News 08/07/2018Attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the looming execution of a convicted child killer after the Tennessee Supreme Court and governor decided against a delay.In a filing Tuesday, federal public defender Kelley Henry and attorney Carl G...
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Myanmar snubs Hague court's intervention in Rohingya crisis
National Legal News 08/07/2018Myanmar has sharply rejected an attempt by the International Criminal Court to consider the country's culpability for activities that caused about 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh for safety.The office of State Counsellor Aung ...
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Child remains found at New Mexico compound, man due in court
National Legal News 08/06/2018For months, neighbors worried about a squalid compound built along a remote New Mexico plain, saying they brought their concerns to authorities long before sheriff's officials first found 11 hungry children on the lot, and then the remains of a small...
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Tennessee high court refuses to block looming execution
National Legal News 08/04/2018The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday's scheduled execution of a convicted child killer while the state's new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal.The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Billy Ra...
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Missouri court gives jolt of life to long Midwest power line
National Legal News 07/16/2018A proposal for a high-voltage power line carrying wind energy across the Midwest received a jolt of new life Tuesday as the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that state regulators had wrongly rejected it.The ruling is a major victory in the quest by Clean...
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Yankton lawyer Jason Ravnsborg wins GOP attorney general nod
National Legal News 06/21/2018South Dakota Republicans on Saturday chose Yankton lawyer Jason Ravnsborg to run against Democratic former U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler in the race for state attorney general.GOP delegates voted to nominate Ravnsborg at their state party convention, wh...