In a 7-4 decision authored by senior circuit Judge Susan Graber, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, the majority wrote that “a large-capacity magazine has little function in armed ...

The ban was originally challenged in a lawsuit brought by firearm advocates who claim it violates the Second Amendment, an assertion backed by U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez, who decided ...

A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing millions of Americans’ personal data stored by the Social Security ...

Thursday's decision overturns a 2023 ruling from U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez, who also previously struck down the law in 2017 and has frequently ruled in favor of firearm advocates in ...

A federal judge has been cleared of wrongdoing for going on CNN to speak out against threats made against members of the judiciary and respond to President Donald Trump's comments about the ...

A federal judge has ordered that President Donald Trump’s administration must not deport Badar Khan Suri, an Indian man studying at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The order will ...

The debate reached fever pitch Wednesday, when Attorney General Pam Bondi, in an appearance on Fox News, launched an incendiary attack on so-called liberal U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit members got into a heated back-and-forth in an en banc Second Amendment opinion Thursday, where Judge Lawrence VanDyke's highly unusual dissent included ...

The presiding judge — James Boasberg, chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C. — directed the government from the bench to turn the planes around carrying the deportees.

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