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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has appointed Eric D. Placke as the…

Under federal law, a child born outside of the United States to non-citizen parents gains automatic U.S. citizenship upon "[t]he naturalization of the parent having legal custody of the child when there has been a legal separation of the parents," as long as the child is under 18 and has a green…

Attorney general Pam Bondi has ordered the transfer of a federal inmate in Louisiana to Oklahoma so he can be executed (access full article).…

Three senior Justice Department officials, including Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday, rather than comply with an order from the Deputy Attorney General to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (…

Since President Trump's return to office last month, federal judges have notably halted several moves, including ending birthright citizenship, through a number of preliminary rulings and injunctions. 

The president’s allies have fueled misinformation and verbal attacks against courts…

Sixth Circuit Finally Gets It Right: 'Exceptional Behavior' Unnecessary For Early Termination of Supervised Release

For more than two decades, the Sixth Circuit has been issuing unpublished opinions saying that early termination of supervised release is "only warranted" upon a showing of "…

The Department of Justice has directed federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (access previous coverage).

The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office is directed to drop the charges “without prejudice…

Upon her swearing in, Attorney General Pamela Bondi issued 14 memoranda seeking to deploy Department of Justice enforcement resources in service of the Trump Administration’s priorities.

The memo directs…

The first U.S. military flight deporting migrants from the United States to Guantánamo Bay landed in Cuba on Tuesday evening (access full article).

It was…

The Senate has voted to confirm Pamela Jo Bondi, 54 to 46, to serve as attorney general (access full article).

The vote fell almost entirely along party…