Deadline: Legal Blog

“Deadline: White House” legal analyst Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump administration lawsuits and other issues.

It’s not only grand jurors who have rejected the Trump administration’s charges. A trial jury just did the same.

A mother gave her two middle-school sons sweatshirts bearing the anti-Biden message as Christmas presents. She pressed a First Amendment appeal.

The Democratic appointees dissented from the majority’s refusal to halt the execution of Charles Crawford, who, they said, raised an important issue.

The Trump appointee could cast a pivotal vote in a Louisiana case affecting the future of voting rights in the United States. Republicans stand to benefit.

The court will hear oral argument Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could further gut the landmark law that the court has already weakened.

The Infowars host had warned of a “financial death penalty by fiat imposed on a media defendant whose broadcasts reach millions.”

Both Democratic and Republican appointees used the term to describe issues in separate cases involving the death penalty and gender transition, respectively.

Accepting Lindsey Halligan's proposal, the judge wrote, “would unnecessarily hinder and delay Defendant’s ability to adequately prepare for trial.”

The former FBI director’s arraignment set the stage for a series of crucial pretrial motions whose outcome could make a trial unnecessary.

The justices turned down Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal and started hearing arguments in their new term, with a big hearing on voting rights coming up.