by HolAdmin | Sep 17, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In 1807, a former vice president stood trial for treason, accused of plotting to carve his own empire out of the western frontier, with the sitting president driving the prosecution and openly...
by HolAdmin | Sep 17, 2026 | American Legal News
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Another day, another round of tech company CEOs proclaiming we have a greater than 10% chance of artificial intelligence causing the extinction of humanity. Though that dire of an outlook seems a little alarmist to me, it’s hard to...
by HolAdmin | Sep 17, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The staffing really matches the mission [to] dismantle civil rights enforcement as we’ve known it for 60 years. This is the demolition crew that they’ve hired. — Regan Rush, a longtime career lawyer in the...
by HolAdmin | Sep 17, 2026 | American Legal News
Nearly a year after a federal judge ruled that Lindsey Halligan was never lawfully the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and threw out the political prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James along...
by HolAdmin | Sep 17, 2026 | American Legal News
The Federal Circuit issued a one-year suspension barring Judge Pauline Newman from hearing cases back in 2023. That order was renewed in 2024…. and again in 2025. The window for a fourth renewal is open right now. How can federal judges functionally strip a colleague...
by HolAdmin | Sep 17, 2026 | American Legal News
Threats against federal judges have become an increasingly grim feature of the Trump II era, with jurists facing everything from swatting attempts to death threats for the apparent offense of doing their jobs. Now, one man accused of threatening to murder a federal...
