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Federal authority to call National Guard troops depends on whether units remain under state control (Title 32) or are federalized (Title 10). Governors command their state Guards and can activate them...
No lower court has definitively stripped former President Donald Trump of all presidential immunity in a particular criminal case; the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Trump v. United States created a...
Karoline Leavitt is not the subject of any verified, blockbuster lawsuit such as an $800 million claim against The View or a $50 million suit involving Travis Kelce; multiple fact-checks and reporting...
Federal action in late September 2025 significantly tightened who may receive non‑domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs), excluding many people who previously used Employment Authorization Docu...
The federal courts initially rejected a sweeping claim that a former President is categorically immune from criminal prosecution, with a December 2023 D.C. Circuit decision and an earlier district-cou...
Court‑martials of sitting U.S. senators are essentially unheard of in modern reporting; recent threats to recall retired Sen. Mark Kelly for possible court‑martial are newsworthy but not precedent set...
The courts have not issued a definitive judicial finding that Donald J. Trump violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause for the 2017–2020 period; lower courts allowed emoluments claims to proceed at time...
The short answer: courts have treated passcodes (and other knowledge-based locks) as testimonial and generally protected by the Fifth Amendment, meaning law enforcement—including ICE—cannot be compell...
The provided reporting does not identify any journalists or news organizations that have independently verified documentary evidence tied to “Riley’s” claims beyond a recorded audio; the material in t...
President Trump is actively litigating to overturn his 34-count New York felony conviction: he filed a direct appeal in New York state court and separately seeks to move the case into federal court on...
Yes — long-standing federal practice and recent court decisions hold that many military retirees remain subject to court-martial jurisdiction, including for some offenses committed after retirement; t...
A number of seditious-conspiracy convictions from Jan. 6 have been obtained at trial (notably against Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders) and those convictions have so far largely survived trial cour...
A former president can invoke executive privilege, but courts and precedent limit that claim and typically decide disputes — Congress cannot be blocked automatically. Courts have treated presidential ...
No conviction of Donald J. Trump documented in the provided materials was overturned on appeal through the dates in those sources; several cases were dismissed without prejudice or are under appeal, a...
Lawmakers and legal scholars have reacted to the Supreme Court’s December 2025 activity by sharply debating presidential removal power, agency independence and the scope of the Court’s docket; support...
President Trump’s July 2020 commutation relieved Roger Stone of the 40‑month federal prison term he was about to begin but did not erase the jury’s seven felony convictions; Stone remained a convicted...
Retired rank and retired-pay status materially affect whether a former service member falls under military jurisdiction: retirees of the regular components who are “entitled to pay” and certain catego...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 immunity decision forced Special Counsel Jack Smith’s D.C. January 6 prosecution to shift from a straight-to-trial posture into a drawn-out, litigation-first strategy ...
Transgender service members responded to the 2025 Pentagon directive and President Trump’s executive order by mounting multiple federal lawsuits (including Talbott, Shilling, and Ireland) that sought ...
Federal courts since 2025 have repeatedly checked the Biden and Trump administrations’ attempts to speed removals by expanding expedited removal and by using tactics such as mass dismissals of pending...