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Prosecutors and support staff involved in investigations into Donald Trump have been sacked in what has been widely described as a purge of the US Department of Justice. Axios broke the news on Saturday that 20 people had been sacked because of their previous work on cases relating to the storming o

The Trump administration has been accused of seeking to intimidate the judiciary after a sitting judge was arrested and charged with allegedly helping a defendant evade arrest by immigration enforcement officers. Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County Circuit in Wisconsin was arrested on Friday afte

TikTok has been dealt a blow in its legal battle against a US law that would see the platform banned if it is not sold to a new owner. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against TikTok on Friday in its challenge to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Contr

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is immune from US civil proceedings brought by the fiancée of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the US government has said. Hatice Cengiz is suing Mr bin Salman and 28 others in the Washington D.C. federal district court over Mr Khashoggi's 2

A mass shooter who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida in 2018 is set to be sentenced to life imprisonment — sparing him the death penalty sought by prosecutors and some victims' families. Nikolas Cruz, 24, will be formally sentenced on Tuesday 1 November, but the judge will

The US Department of Justice has been ordered to release a redacted version of an affidavit making the case for a raid of former president Donald Trump's Florida home. Judge Bruce Reinhart, who granted the search warrant for the unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, ruled after media

Former US president Donald Trump has launched legal proceedings in a bid to secure the return of some of the documents seized during an FBI raid of his Florida home. He has asked a federal judge to appoint a "special master" to examine the seized documents and for federal investigators to pause thei

The city of Seattle is being sued by salmon in a novel legal case invoking the "rights of nature". The novel case, in which the fish are named as plaintiffs, was initiated by the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe of Washington, which alleges that dams have decimated the salmon population in Washington's ri

Nine more US lawyers who attempted to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in favour of Donald Trump have been sanctioned. Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and seven others could be disbarred after a federal judge ruled that their lawsuit in Michigan "represents a historic and profound abuse

A Trump-era policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed in the US must be reinstated following a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The top court refused to grant the Biden administration a stay on a district court injunction pending app

Lawyers have given their backing to campaigners seeking the removal of a courthouse mural depicting three members of the racist Klu Klux Klan (KKK) on horseback. The hooded Klansmen appear in the corner of a large mural painted on the floor of the Baker County Courthouse in Macclenny, Florida, The T

A controversial five-year prison sentence for a woman who tried to vote without realising she was ineligible because she was on parole has been upheld by a US appeals court. Crystal Mason, 44, from Fort Worth in Texas, said she did not realise she was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 2016 preside