U.S. Circuit Judge Duane Benton, a longtime conservative voice on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has announced he will move to senior status — a semi-retirement that hands President Donald Trump his first judicial vacancy to fill in his second term. Benton, 75, informed the White House of his decision in a letter, …

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Donald Trump’s administration has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to validate his authority to dismiss Shira Perlmutter, the head of the U.S. Copyright Office—an act that has become the latest test of how far presidential power can reach into independent federal institutions. The Justice Department has urged the Court to overturn …

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Google has agreed to cut a hefty check — up to $190 million — to Texas’ hired legal teams as part of a sprawling $1.375 billion privacy settlement that closed one of the state’s biggest battles with Big Tech. The deal, revealed in new court filings, also sets aside $71 million for the Texas Attorney …

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As Washington tightens the purse strings, two of America’s most populous states are digging into their own coffers to keep Planned Parenthood afloat. New York Governor Kathy Hochul and California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that their states would cover the funding gap left by the federal government’s recent Medicaid cuts — a decision that effectively …

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Two federal courtrooms—one in Portland, Oregon, and another in Washington, D.C.—became the latest battlegrounds over former President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to send National Guard troops into American cities, testing the limits of presidential power on domestic soil. In Portland, Justice Department attorneys pressed Judge Karin Immergut to roll back her ban on Trump’s troop …

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A prominent American law firm has issued a sweeping apology after artificial intelligence tripped it into a courtroom fiasco. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani — a national firm boasting 1,800 lawyers — confessed it was “profoundly embarrassed” when one of its attorneys submitted a bankruptcy filing riddled with fake citations and legal fabrications conjured by AI. …

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In a move steeped in political controversy, Liberia has agreed—on what it calls a “strictly humanitarian and temporary basis”—to accept Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador earlier this year became a flashpoint in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. According to a U.S. Justice Department filing, Abrego could be removed to the West …

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When the government shutters, most federal employees wait it out in silence. Isaac Stein, however, took to the streets — with a grill, a grin, and a dream wrapped in a bun. By weekday, Stein is a 31-year-old attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, the kind of mind that untangles retirement plan regulations in a …

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