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Republican House allies and some have said there are with impeachment resolutions pending in , but public reporting assembled for this brief names and details for only two of those judges — and — and ...
Barack Obama’s presidency generated a mix of legal challenges that fall into three clear categories: a flood of that were uniformly dismissed for lack of standing, with record legal costs in his final...
The warrant to seize the Venezuelan oil tanker M/T Skipper was signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on November 26, 2025, and the unseale...
Official, mainstream documentary traces of Guantánamo activity since 2017 exist in publicly filed court records, Department of Defense and Congressional reporting, reputable press coverage and indepen...
were filed against between March and August 2023—two state prosecutions (, and , ) and two federal prosecutions ( and )—collectively accounting for roughly 88–91 charges across reporting outlets, with...
No independent, primary source in the provided reporting confirms that issued a "" in January 2026; the documents available instead show Chutkan has authored detailed multi‑page rulings in prior years...
Since 2017 only a small number of cases have resulted in new convictions or plea deals: the most prominent was ’s plea and transfer in 2023, a set of high-profile plea agreements were negotiated in 20...
Federal courts across multiple jurisdictions weighed in during 2025 on legal disputes tied to , and several of those decisions directly implicated citizens or the treatment of people detained alongsid...
As of November 2025, Donald Trump faced four separate criminal prosecutions filed in 2023 across New York state, Fulton County (Georgia), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, ...
As of January 2026, the landscape of criminal matters tied to Donald Trump is narrower than at its 2023–2024 peak: his New York conviction in the Stormy Daniels "hush-money" case exists on the record ...
The central factual claim is that legal challenges and scholarly commentary have arisen after House Speaker Mike Johnson delayed administering the oath to Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, and th...
Donald Trump has been the subject of multiple criminal indictments that originated in four separate jurisdictions: the Southern District of Florida (federal, classified documents), the U.S. District C...
Four separate criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump originated in New York (Manhattan criminal court), Fulton County, Georgia, the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida, and the U.S....
Donald Trump has faced four separate criminal prosecutions brought in 2023–2024: a New York state case (34 counts of first‑degree falsifying business records, conviction on May 30, 2024, later sentenc...
Donald Trump has one recorded criminal conviction in the materials provided: a May 30, 2024 Manhattan jury verdict finding him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hu...
The lawsuit seeking to force Speaker Mike Johnson to seat Adelita Grijalva is being litigated in federal court in Washington, D.C.; multiple contemporaneous reports identify the U.S. District Court fo...
The two federal courts that have been at the center of ’s criminal indictments are , where ’s election‑related case was assigned to , and , where presided over the classified‑documents indictment; as ...
’s contends board’s vote to append ’s name was unlawful because alone set and can change the center’s statutory name, and that the board’s process was a “sham” that silenced dissenting trustees; her c...
’s official chambers instructions require parties to email proposed scheduling or pretrial orders in Microsoft Word to chutkan_chambers@dcd.uscourts.gov at the same time the order is filed on the dock...
District courts issued a significant number of nationwide injunctions during the first 100 days of the 2025 administration: the Congressional Research Service (CRS) identified 25 district-court nation...