Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M in government funds to operate US public radio system
Read full article: Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M in government funds to operate US public radio systemNational Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in government funding to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement.
Judge briefly blocks immigrants' deportation to South Sudan, but legal path eventually cleared
Read full article: Judge briefly blocks immigrants' deportation to South Sudan, but legal path eventually clearedEight immigrants the Trump administration has been trying to send to the war-torn country of South Sudan can now be relocated after a federal judge briefly halted the action Friday.
Judge blocks order barring asylum access at border and gives administration two weeks to appeal
Read full article: Judge blocks order barring asylum access at border and gives administration two weeks to appealA federal judge has ruled that an executive order by President Donald Trump suspending asylum access at the southern border is unlawful.
Judge skeptical of Trump administration argument that federal courts can't review border declaration
Read full article: Judge skeptical of Trump administration argument that federal courts can't review border declarationA federal judge expressed skepticism over the Trump administration’s assertions that its decision to declare an invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border and suspend asylum access was not something courts had the authority to review.
DOGE notches courtroom wins as Elon Musk crusades to slash federal government
Read full article: DOGE notches courtroom wins as Elon Musk crusades to slash federal governmentAlthough some parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda are getting bogged down by litigation, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is having better luck in the courtroom.
Man charged in AP photographer's attack pleads guilty to assaulting officer during Capitol riot
Read full article: Man charged in AP photographer's attack pleads guilty to assaulting officer during Capitol riotAn Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, where he also allegedly pushed an Associated Press photographer over a wall.
Prosecutors seek prison for rioter's attack on AP journalist
Read full article: Prosecutors seek prison for rioter's attack on AP journalistFederal prosecutors have recommended a prison sentence of approximately four years for a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to assaulting an Associated Press photographer and using a stun gun against police officers at the U.S. Capitol.
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Capitol rioter who breached Senate gets 8 months for felony
Read full article: Capitol rioter who breached Senate gets 8 months for felonyA Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag has received an eight-month prison term, the first resolution for a felony case in the Capitol insurrection
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Appeals court vacates order delaying woman's execution
Read full article: Appeals court vacates order delaying woman's executionFILE - This undated file image provided by Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery shows Lisa Montgomery. A federal appeals court has lifted a judges order that had blocked the execution date for Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row. The ruling was handed down Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery via AP)WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Moss concluded that the under his order the Bureau of Prisons could not even reschedule Montgomery’s execution until at least Jan. 1.
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Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row
Read full article: Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row(AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office. U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss also vacated an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that had set Lisa Montgomerys execution date for Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)WASHINGTON – A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Moss prohibited the Bureau of Prisons from carrying out Lisa Montgomery’s execution before the end of the year and officials rescheduled her execution date for Jan. 12. Generally, under Justice Department guidelines, a death-row inmate must be notified at least 20 days before the execution.
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Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row
Read full article: Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row(AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office. U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss also vacated an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that had set Lisa Montgomerys execution date for Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)WASHINGTON – A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office. Moss prohibited the Bureau of Prisons from carrying out Lisa Montgomery’s execution before the end of the year and officials rescheduled her execution date for Jan. 12. Generally, under Justice Department guidelines, a death-row inmate must be notified at least 20 days before the execution.
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Judge halts federal execution after lawyers contract virus
Read full article: Judge halts federal execution after lawyers contract virusWASHINGTON – A federal judge is temporarily blocking the federal government’s plan to execute the first female death row inmate in almost six decades after her attorneys contracted the coronavirus visiting her in prison. The order, handed down Thursday by U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington, prohibits the federal Bureau of Prisons from carrying out Lisa Montgomery’s execution before the end of the year. She was scheduled to be put to death on Dec. 8 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Montgomery’s attorneys had sought to delay the execution in order to file a clemency petition on her behalf. Both Henry and Harwell have serious symptoms from the virus and are “functionally incapacitated” and thus unable to help file a clemency petition, Babcock said.
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Army Corps reconsidering permit for $9.4B plastics complex
Read full article: Army Corps reconsidering permit for $9.4B plastics complexThe Corps plans to explain by Tuesday why “the intended construction activities authorized under the permit ... may not proceed,” said a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.“I’m overjoyed by this news. “It's kind of a wild turn,” said Julie Teel Simmonds, a senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the lawsuit for itself, Rise St. James and two other groups. She said the motion indicated the permit had been suspended, although FG LA spokesman Jim Harris said it was not. The state and parish have offered FG LA about $1.5 billion in tax breaks. FG LA has been doing site preparation.

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