The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday added abortion rights to its docket for the new term, agreeing to hear a challenge to a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The case, June Medical Services v. Gee, which will likely be scheduled for oral arguments in early 2020, […]

WASHINGTON — Weeks before the whistleblower’s complaint became public, the CIA’s top lawyer made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower’s allegations that President Donald Trump abused his office in pressuring the Ukrainian president, U.S. officials familiar with the matter tell NBC News. The move by the […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signaled Tuesday that five current and former State Department officials would not show up for depositions scheduled by House Democrats in connection with their impeachment inquiry. Pompeo asserted that the House’s demand for testimony from five current and former State Department officials beginning this week raised “significant legal and procedural […]

President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has hired Jon Sale, a former assistant Watergate prosecutor, to represent him in the congressional investigations into Trump’s contacts with Ukraine. Sale confirmed in an email to The Hill on Tuesday that he is representing Giuliani, who was subpoenaed a day earlier for a slew of documents and communications […]

Several Democratic presidential candidates called for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Sunday after newly reported allegations of sexual misconduct against him in the New York Times. The outlet reported late Saturday night that a male former classmate claims to have witnessed Kavanaugh expose himself at a party where friends pushed his genitals […]

WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen told former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Thursday that his appeal against possible criminal charges against him has been rejected, according to a person familiar with the decision. The rejection may pave the way for an indictment of McCabe, who according to a Justice Department Inspector General’s […]

The Supreme Court has approved President Trump’s request to allow the administration to enforce its new asylum rule. The rule would severely cut down on the number of immigrants would can request asylum in the United States, essentially preventing many of those coming from Central American from doing so. President Trump has vowed to take […]

The Department of Justice will not prosecute former FBI director James Comey for leaking memos detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump. According an Office of the Inspector General report released Thursday, Comey violated DOJ and FBI policies, as well as the FBI’s employment agreement, by keeping copies of four of his memos in a […]

An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $572 million for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids while downplaying the risks of addiction, actions that state prosecutors said helped fuel the state’s opioid epidemic andled to more than 6,000 deaths over nearly two decades. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter claimed in court […]

A coalition of 20 states led by California and Massachusetts on Friday announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proposed rule to amend the longstanding court order that limits the detention of migrant minors to 20 days. It’s the first major litigation against the Trump administration’s plan to rescind the Flores settlement agreement, a rule […]

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently underwent a fresh round of treatment for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, the high court said in a statement Friday. The three-week radiation treatment, performed at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, was administered after doctors discovered a “localized malignant tumor” on […]