A federal judge on Monday ordered the government to explain the “scope” of President Trump’s commutation of longtime GOP operative Roger Stone, including whether the move only involved the sentence of incarceration, or also the period of supervised release.U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the government to provide the court by Tuesday, July 14, “a…
Three executions are scheduled this week at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., but legal challenges make it unclear when — or if — they'll go forward. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Conroy/AP Three executions are scheduled this week at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., but legal challenges make it…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has stayed all pending federal executions—including one that had been set for Monday."[B]ecause the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process, and is greatly served by attempting to ensure that the most serious punishment is imposed in a manner consistent with our Constitution, the court finds that…
(CNN)A federal judge postponed the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, a convicted killer who had been set to be the first federal inmate executed in over 17 years. In a Friday filing -- just three days…
NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan has given lawyers for President Trump a Wednesday deadline to say whether he will further challenge a subpoena for his tax documents, part of an ongoing investigation by local prosecutors here into hush money payments made during the 2016 election season.The order by U.S. District Judge Victor…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…