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Oil giants say Hawaii’s climate suit belongs with lawmakers

The companies argued the state is really asking a court to decide how much fossil fuel the world should have burned, a question they say belongs to the state legislature.

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Courthouse News Service· Oct 20, 11:46 PMOil giants say Hawaii’s climate suit belongs with lawmakers

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Trump-appointed judge faces psychiatric exam order amid probe into ‘bizarre emails’A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas has had her cases temporarily reassigned and faces mounting scrutiny Tuesday after investigators said she abandoned her duties and sent confidential court records to roughly 140 people. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of Dallas has already been ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination amid concerns about her…

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Todd Blanche publicly brawls with MAGA influencer over DOJ official: ‘You are dead wrong’Far-right activist Laura Loomer drew a blistering public rebuke from the head of President Donald Trump's Justice Department after targeting one of his top deputies. Attorney General Todd Blanche tore into Loomer on Tuesday in a post on X after she used a lengthy thread to attack Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward , accusing him of sending…

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GOP voting rule sending ballots to the trash after backers insisted it wouldn't: reportThousands of North Carolina mail ballots are on track to be rejected over technical errors after a federal judge upheld strict new Republican-backed rules, according to data shared with Democracy Docket. Common Cause North Carolina and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice compiled figures from 27 of the state’s 100 counties. They show a rejection…

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New York fends off challenge over handgun legislationAn upstate New York convict argued his criminal indictment ran afoul of Second Amendment rights affirmed by a landmark Supreme Court ruling from 2022.

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Supreme Court recusals over books raise questions about policyA publishing dispute has highlighted the issue of recusals by Supreme Court justices. We take a look at the court's policy and its impact.

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Billionaire landed pardon after his family bankrolled Trump’s former lawyer: NYTA billionaire charged with bribery won a pardon from President Donald Trump after his family handed a lucrative contract to one of the president's loyalists. Julio Herrera Velutini , a Venezuelan banking heir, received a full pardon early this year after his daughter's company hired Alina Habba , Trump's former personal attorney, under a deal…

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Justice Elena Kagan accuses Supreme Court’s conservative majority of undermining democracyThe liberal Supreme Court justice took aim at various recent rulings, including one that paved the way for rampant partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts.

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Shirts takes over as Idaho U.S. Attorney - Tue, 20 Oct 2026 PSTA former Idaho state representative has been appointed as the new U.S. attorney for the District of Idaho.

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AG’s office sides with community in the fight over public access to an East Texas waterwayA brief on the Cutoff stream, which a billionaire blocked access to, was issued by the state agency in the days leading up to oral arguments before the 12th Court of Appeals.

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‘Borders on the absurd.’ California fights Trump lawsuit to set aside 20,000 ballotsCalifornia’s top attorney called on a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s efforts to force the state to set aside up to 20,000 ballots that prosecutors claim could have been mailed to noncitizens. In a court filing Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Attorney General Rob Bonta said the lawsuit the Trump administration […]

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