Live updates as TikTok ban goes before the Supreme Court

  1m ago Who will be arguing before the Supreme Court? Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar will be arguing on behalf of the federal government. Noel Francisco, who was solicitor general in Trump’s first administration, will present on behalf of TikTok and ByteDance. Jeffrey Fisher, co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law, will

Trump to be sentenced for New York “hush money” crimes, a historic first

Appearing in court virtually from his Mar-a-Lago home Friday, President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced for his crimes in the New York “hush money” case, in a moment unlike any other in American history. Trump and his lawyers fought Manhattan prosecutors at every turn, dating back to the beginning of the “hush money”

Jimmy Carter laid to rest in Plains, Georgia, after funeral service in D.C.

Carter’s is the fifth official national funeral service for a president that has been held in the National Cathedral, following Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, the Very Rev. Randolph Hollerith, the dean of the National Cathedral, told reporters Wednesday.  But “every funeral itself, whether it’s presidential or otherwise, is completely

Appeals court won’t block partial release of special counsel’s Trump report

Washington — A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Thursday rejected a bid to block the release of a portion of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report detailing his investigation and prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump stemming from an alleged plan to subvert the transfer of power after the 2020 election. The U.S. Court of Appeals