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Lawyer with link to 9/11 conspiracy theorists is charged with assaulting police in US Capitol riot
A 66-year-old New York lawyer has been charged with assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, after a tipster used…
Military lawyer abducted war orphan when she arrived in US with guardians, suit claims
A legal dispute between an Afghan couple and a U.S. military lawyer centers on a child who was about 2 months old in September 2019…
Barrett denies emergency request to halt student-loan forgiveness program; federal judge tosses different suit
Court challenges to President Joe Biden’s student-debt relief program encountered two roadblocks Thursday. In the first, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied an…
Funding structure for consumer agency violates separation of powers, 5th Circuit says
A federal appeals court has ruled that the funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional because it is funded by the Federal…
A Credit to the Genre: ‘Serial’ and the case of Adnan Syed
Back in 2019, I wrote an installment for this column discussing whether true-crime documentaries can do more harm than good for the criminal justice…