The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is weighing the appeal concerning President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, is the federal appeals court conservatives have long ridiculed as the “nutty 9th” or the “9th Circus.” Covering a huge ...
Read More »At liberal Columbia U, Gorsuch raised a conservative voice
As a conservative student at Columbia University in the mid-1980s, future Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was a political odd man out, and he was determined to speak up. “It is not fashionable at Columbia to be anything other than ...
Read More »Ferguson to pay $3M for naked, unarmed man’s stun gun death
The city of Ferguson has dropped its appeal of a federal jury’s $3 million award to survivors of a naked, unarmed, black man who died after a police officer repeatedly shocked him with a stun gun and will pay the ...
Read More »Seattle judge derided by Trump known as conservative jurist
The Seattle judge derided by President Donald Trump on Twitter Saturday after blocking Trump’s executive order on immigration is known for his conservative legal views, for a record of helping disadvantaged children that includes fostering six of them, and for ...
Read More »Bill seeks to end tenure system in Missouri
A Missouri lawmaker who is proposing eliminating tenure for professors at all of the state’s two- and four-year public colleges and universities says tenure is an outdated system that is no longer needed to protect teachers from being unjustly fired. ...
Read More »2 states say allowing travel ban would ‘unleash chaos again’
Lawyers for Washington state and Minnesota have told a federal appellate court that restoring President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries would “unleash chaos again.” The filing with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Read More »Man accused in killing had previous conviction overturned
A man accused of killing a St. Louis-area woman and putting her body in a garbage container has a previous murder conviction, but one that was overturned in court. The suspect, 51-year-old Paulren Stepter, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder ...
Read More »Kansas Supreme Court upholds death sentence
A divided Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a man’s death sentence in the 2004 slayings of a woman and her boyfriend. The 4-3 ruling Friday let stand the Barton County sentence of Sidney Gleason in the killings of Mikiala “Miki” ...
Read More »‘El Chapo’ lawyers say jail conditions are too strict in NYC
He’s locked up 23 hours a day. His wife can’t visit him. He can’t call anyone, except his lawyers. He even was denied water, his lawyers say. The strict jail conditions for notorious Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin ...
Read More »Greitens rescinds Nixon board of curators nominations
Gov. Eric Greitens rescinded the nominations of two members of the University of Missouri Board of Curators who were seated by former Gov. Jay Nixon when the Legislature wasn’t in session. Greitens’ decision to withdraw the nominations of Jon Sunvold ...
Read More »A haven for refugees feels new anxiety in the age of Trump
It’s not unusual around Utica to see tables full of Bosnians sipping strong coffee in cafes, Muslim women in hijabs shopping at grocery stores and Somalis raised in equatorial heat heading to work in the blowing snow. An influx of ...
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