In February, a judge ordered the FBI to reveal the full malware code it used to identify visitors of a dark web child pornography site, including the exploit that circumvented the protections of the Tor Browser. The government fought back, largely in
Justice Thomas had not asked a question during oral arguments since 2006 when, during the arguments in Voisine v. United States on February 29, he posed a question to the government's counsel, Assistant to the Solicitor General Ilana Eisenstein.
Faced with two estranged parents in utter disagreement about their daughter's wish to be a boy, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge has appointed the child a legal guardian to protect her interests.
A BRAZILIAN STATE JUDGE ordered mobile phone operators to block nationwide the extremely popular WhatsApp chat service for 72 hours, a move that will have widespread international reverberations for the increasingly contentious debate over encryption
When he sentenced Dennis Hastert to more than a year in prison, the judge in the former House speaker's hush-money case delivered the verbal equivalent of a public flogging.
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports While campaigning for her mother recently, Chelsea Clinton admitted that the left is planning to use the Supreme Court to enact greater gun control if a Democrat wins the presidency this fall.
The 'Scandal' star talks with THR about the behind-the-scenes drama of HBO's political telefilm, her talks with Anita Hill and what she hopes viewers will take away from the project.
Hot on the heels of Wells Fargo's $1.2 billion settlement, Bloomberg reports that Goldman Sachs will pay $5.1 billion to settle a U.S. probe into its handling of mortgage-backed securities involving allegations that loans weren't properly vetted be
A judge in Cook County has cleared a cop on charges of molesting a colleague's 9-year-old child, after being unable to decide if kissing and reaching into the child's shorts was a "sexual act."
During a question and answer session at University of Chicago Law School, President Obama joked he is "sorry" his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, is white.
There's ten months to go of Barack Obama's second term but Republicans don't want to let him nominate a liberal justice that will forever upset the balance of the court. They've pledged to block all of his nominees until after the November el
There's ten months to go of Barack Obama's second term but Republicans don't want to let him nominate a liberal justice that will forever upset the balance of the court.
A MARYLAND appellate court on Wednesday explained its reasoning for its landmark decision earlier this month requiring police to establish probable cause and get a warrant before using a Stingray, or cell-site simulator.
Rick Rynearson writes about his recently denied SCOTUS petition:
"But my case demonstrated that the Supreme Court is not actually interested in a delicate balance of our rights against the oh-so-pressing interest of illegal immigration (which thes
A federal appeals court spanked the IRS Tuesday, saying it has taken laws designed to protect taxpayers from the government and turned them on their head, using them to try to protect the tax agency from the very tea party groups it targeted.
James Corbett (The Corbett Report) provides World News Update, GOP POTUS Circus, comments on Obama's supreme court justice selection - Sibel Edmonds (Boiling Frogs Post; News Bud) on the Kickstarter campaign for NewsBud, a people-funded non-partisan
Two drug-reform organizations, a criminal justice reform organization and a former federal judge filed an amicus brief on March 16 which laid out arguments rebuking Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's sentence of life in prison without parole.
Kate Bennett of the Independent Journal reports, With the nomination of Judge Merritt Garland now officially sent to the Senate for consideration, the real battle begins.
Weighing free speech against privacy, a Florida jury has decided to uphold the sanctity of the latter by turning in a $115 million verdict against Gawker over its 2012 posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape.