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Trump, DOJ ask Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict

Trump, DOJ ask Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict

Published by Sam Flores

E. Jean Carroll walks outside Manhattan Federal Court, for the second civil trial after she accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice on Tuesday separately asked the Supreme Court to overturn a civil court verdict that ordered him to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her while denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. “This is the first case in our Nation’s history in which a court has imposed damages liability on a President for his conduct in office,” the petition to the Supreme Court by Trump’s lawyers says. His attorneys claim that Trump has immunity from the defamation claim because he made the comments about Carroll in 2019, when he was president. In their filing, the lawyers say that a 2024 Supreme Court ruling in Trump’s favor required the verdict in the Carroll case …

Saudis On Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand: ‘Tweets Don’t Overturn Signed Deals’

Saudis On Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand: ‘Tweets Don’t Overturn Signed Deals’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Update(1258ET): Saudi unnamed officials are pushing back, as expected… After President Trump earlier this morning in a Truth Social post asserted that the already signed US-Saudi nuclear deal would actually be conditioned on Riyadh joining the Abraham Accords, journalist Laura Rozen quotes an unnamed Saudi source who says Trump’s demand is too late. “It was signed. So nothing to renegotiate,” the Saudi source says. “Tweets don’t overturn signed agreements.” Is the ‘civilian nuclear energy’ deal already dead on arrival, even as it’s expected to be presented to Congress? in case anyone thought energy secretary chris wright was freelancing and hadn’t run the deal by Trump https://t.co/KSJHsPNiFz — Laura Rozen (@lrozen) July 23, 2026 *  *  * President Trump has suddenly pulled back the reins on the Saudi nuclear deal, which is likely being felt as a major shock in Riyadh, given that the deal was already signed Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman. Trump in a Thursday morning Truth social post declared that the deal will only …

Alexander Kolodin, who tried to overturn Arizona election results, wins GOP nod for secretary of state

Alexander Kolodin, who tried to overturn Arizona election results, wins GOP nod for secretary of state

Published by Sam Flores

Republican state Rep. Alexander Kolodin will face Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, Adrian Fontes, in November’s general election, NBC News projects, after he won the GOP primary. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Kolodin won the Republican nomination over former state GOP chair Gina Swoboda. Kolodin, who has frequently questioned the results of past elections in interviews, led several lawsuits to overturn the results of the 2020 and 2022 elections in Arizona, earning rebukes from judges and the state bar association. Kolodin is backed by the conservative nonprofit group Turning Point USA and several Arizona GOP members of Congress. Now, he’s running to be the chief election officer in a battleground state during the 2028 presidential campaign. Part of the role of secretary of state in Arizona is overseeing state elections. The office’s duties include working to certify “voting devices, election results, candidates and measures to the ballot, as well as the results of statewide elections,” according to the secretary of state’s website. In a joint …

Supreme Court rejects Trump effort to overturn E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation verdict

Supreme Court rejects Trump effort to overturn E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation verdict

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court handed a loss to President Donald Trump on Monday by refusing to hear his attempt to overturn a jury’s finding that he sexually abused and later defamed writer E. Jean Carroll. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. The justices turned away Trump’s appeal, meaning the 2023 jury verdict and a $5 million civil judgment remain in place. The case arose from a federal lawsuit Carroll filed in New York City alleging that Trump assaulted her in the dressing room of a department store in 1996. The defamation claims relate to statements he made about her after his first term in office, in which he described her claims as a “con job” and “hoax.” E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court for the second defamation trial against former President Donald Trump on Jan. 17, 2024.Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images file Trump blasted the ruling on social media and vowed to keep fighting the case “with all of my …

US Christian Nationalists aim to overturn assisted dying, reusing anti-abortion playbook – Humanists UK

US Christian Nationalists aim to overturn assisted dying, reusing anti-abortion playbook – Humanists UK

Published by Sam Flores

Religious conservatives in the United States are mounting legal campaigns to overturn assisted dying laws across the US, with the possible aim of engineering a case that reaches a sympathetic Supreme Court, mirroring the strategy that successfully dismantled federal abortion protections in 2022, four years ago today. Since 2023, opponents of assisted dying have filed lawsuits in federal courts in California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, and New York. The most recent two, filed against brand-new assisted dying laws in Illinois and New York, were announced at a press conference at which Matt Vallière, Executive Director of the Institute for Patients’ Rights, said openly that the goal was to end assisted dying in the US through the Supreme Court. Some lawsuits are funded by the Christian nationalist right and use religious law firms like Covenant Law, but are filed through disability rights organisations; they claim that assisted dying laws endanger people with disabilities, a conflation of terminal illness and disability that courts have so far consistently rejected. Judges in both California and Delaware have ruled that assisted …

The Burden Of History: Justice Jackson’s Curious Call To Overturn Critical 2nd Amendment Precedent

The Burden Of History: Justice Jackson’s Curious Call To Overturn Critical 2nd Amendment Precedent

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Jonathan Turley, Since her confirmation in 2022, Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson has established a legacy that is fast becoming one of the most radical in the Court’s history. Her sole dissents have drawn sharp criticism from both her conservative and liberal colleagues. However, for critics of some of these decisions, Justice Jackson continues to publish opinions that are not just, as she describes it, cathartic but chilling. Worse yet, the latest judicial jump scare was shared by her colleague, Justice Sonya Sotomayor, in her concurring opinion in United States v. Hemani.. At issue in the case was an effort to prosecute Ali Hemani for recreational use of marijuana, a prosecution that threatened up to 15 years and to strip him of his gun rights under  18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch ruled that the provision was not “consistent with the Second Amendment.” Gorsuch noted that Hemani was not alleged to be a drug addict or to have used his guns in a menacing manner. Gorsuch wrote that the “historical …

Telegram loses bid to overturn India’s temporary blocking of the app

Telegram loses bid to overturn India’s temporary blocking of the app

Published by Sam Flores

NEW DELHI, June 19 : Telegram on Friday lost its bid to overturn an Indian government order temporarily banning the messaging app, with a New Delhi court ruling that the government’s actions, aimed at preserving the integrity of a key med school exam, were legal and reasonable. The ban of the app from June 16 to June 22 has stirred an intense debate in the world’s most populous nation. Free speech rights activists say it has set a worrying precedent that cements government powers to curb the use of any messaging platform whenever it sees fit. The government put the block in place after the results of the country’s exam for students hoping to get into medical schools were scrapped last month amid allegations that the question paper had been leaked. The government is “empowered … to issue directions for blocking the public access to Telegram,” Delhi High Court Justice Tejas Karia said in his ruling. Telegram, which has more than 150 million users in India and counts the country as its biggest market, did …

Ghana’s Partey loses appeal to overturn Canadian visa refusal for World Cup | World Cup 2026 News

Ghana’s Partey loses appeal to overturn Canadian visa refusal for World Cup | World Cup 2026 News

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Thomas Partey will not be able to enter Canada for Ghana’s first World Cup game against Panama on Wednesday. Published On 16 Jun 202616 Jun 2026 A Canadian court has dismissed an appeal by Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey after he was denied entry into the country for his team’s game against Panama at the World Cup. The Canadian government last week refused a visa for Partey, 33, after which his lawyers launched a last-minute appeal to the Federal Court in Ottawa, but the appeal was lost on Tuesday. The Black Stars will play Panama in their Group L match in Toronto on Wednesday. In dismissing the appeal, Judge Roger Lafreniere wrote that Partey had sought “extraordinary, mandatory interlocutory relief” that would have required Canada to set aside a “lawfully rendered inadmissibility finding and facilitate his entry for a specific event”. Ahead of the verdict, Partey’s lawyer, Mackeda Bramwell, told the Reuters news agency that they would not appeal if the judge ruled against him. Former Arsenal midfielder Partey faces allegations of rape and sexual assault …

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks US appeals court to overturn sentence

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks US appeals court to overturn sentence

Published by Sam Flores

Prosecutors disagreed and pointed to an instance where Combs showed Ventura he had videos of her engaging in sex parties hours before another “freak-off” in an apparent bid to ensure her continued participation. “These incidents are specifically tied to transportation,” prosecutor Christy Slavik told the court.  In a sign of the complex legal arguments, Slavik at one point drew an analogy of pizza to highlight how certain “slices” of evidence were relevant to the ultimate sentencing decision. The court did not issue an immediate ruling in what one judge, William Nardini, called an “exceptionally difficult case.” Combs is also appealing his conviction though that was not discussed in detail on Thursday. He is being held in the low-security Fort Dix prison in New Jersey and is due for release in spring 2028.  Source link

Tesla sues to overturn its own FSD false advertising ruling

Tesla sues to overturn its own FSD false advertising ruling

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Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles seeking to reverse the administrative ruling that found the automaker engaged in false advertising with its “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” marketing. The move comes just days after Tesla complied with the DMV’s demands to clean up its marketing language — raising the question of why the company is fighting a ruling it already capitulated to. The lawsuit In a complaint dated February 13, Tesla’s attorneys alleged that the DMV “wrongfully and baselessly” labeled the automaker a “false advertiser” for its prior use of the terms Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. Tesla argues that the DMV never proved consumers were actually confused about whether its cars were safe to drive without a human at the wheel. Tesla also made a remarkable argument: that the DMV had known about its use of “Autopilot” branding since 2014 and “Full Self-Driving” since 2016, essentially claiming a statute of limitations on misleading the public. This is the same argument Tesla tried in 2023, the idea that it had been …