A state appeals court disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election case against President-elect Donald Trump and other co-defendants. William Jacobson, lawyer and law professor at Cornell Law School, speaks with NTD about the case.
A Georgia appeals court has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her election-related criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump, although the indictment still stands. Trump and his codefendants were charged in 2023 by Willis’s office for what they alleged was a scheme to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. […]
The Supreme Court agreed to take up TikTok’s challenge to delay a law that could potentially ban the app on Jan. 19 if it fails to divest from its Chinese parent company. Gerard Filitti, senior counsel at The Lawfare Project and attorney specializing in national security law and policy, speaks with NTD about the case. […]
Nathan Leamer, former Federal Communications Commission policy adviser and CEO of Fixed Gear Strategies, discussed with NTD the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear oral arguments on TikTok’s appeal of the law banning its use in the United States, China’s use of TikTok to spy on Americans, and how TikTok will play into President-elect Donald […]
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears in a Pennsylvania court for a preliminary hearing on state gun and forgery charges at around 8:30 a.m. ET on Dec. 19.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 18 agreed to hear TikTok’s case challenging a law requiring it’s China-based parent company to divest of the app by Jan. 19, 2025. The court will hear oral arguments on Jan. 10, 2025. TikTok had challenged the divestment law as unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and a three-judge panel […]
Social media platform TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to divest the platform by Jan. 19, 2025, or cease operations in the United States. The Dec. 16 filing came after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected TikTok’s attempt […]
NEW YORK—The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge. Luigi Mangione will be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for years […]
A federal appeals court on Dec. 13 denied TikTok’s request to delay the Jan. 19, 2025, deadline for it to cut ties with the Chinese communist regime, shortly after the app filed its final argument for a delay. In an unsigned, expedited order, the three-judge panel denied the request and found there was no precedent […]
Luigi Mangione’s attorney explains his client’s shouting. Mangione yelled and struggled with police as he entered a Pennsylvania courthouse this week. NTD’s Chris Beers has the latest updates on the murder case of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
The Republican-led House of Representatives approved a bill on Dec. 12 to expand the number of seats in the federal judiciary. The bill, known as the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act of 2024, would add 66 district court judgeships nationwide. Under the bill, the additions would occur incrementally, with the last wave […]
The Supreme Court on Dec. 11 dismissed Nvidia’s appeal of a lower court ruling that allowed shareholders to sue the company for alleged securities fraud. This new court opinion, in which the justices declined to rule on the merits and instead did an about-face on their June 17 decision to hear the case, means the […]
A federal judge in Texas on Dec. 10 rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’s Infowars website to satirical publication The Onion, ruling that the process did not result in the best possible bids and citing concerns about transparency in the auction. The Onion was named the winning bidder of Infowars’ assets during the Nov. […]
The attorney hired to represent the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO said that he’s seen no evidence showing his client is guilty. “I haven’t seen any evidence that says that he’s the shooter,” Thomas Dickey told reporters in Pennsylvania on Dec. 10, after a hearing in which his client Luigi Mangione was denied bail. […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Dec. 10 that federal courts may not review the federal government’s decision to revoke an immigration visa. The court’s 9–0 opinion in Bouarfa v. Mayorkas was written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The respondent is U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In the case, the […]
