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Reporter’s Notebook: Voting from home

Woody Allen famously decreed that 90% of success in life is just showing up.  With that in mind, should the House of Representatives allow members of Congress to vote from home? How about with very particular criteria? Oh, you may say, didn’t they try that a few years ago during the pandemic? Lawmakers would literally…

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Trump DOJ hammers judge’s ‘digressive micromanagement,’ seeks more time to answer 5 questions

The Justice Department accused a federal judge of “digressive micromanagement” Wednesday in relation to a case involving deportation flights that sent Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador over the weekend. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to submit answers to five questions after it insisted Tuesday that the flights did not violate a…

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Idaho murders case: Bryan Kohberger’s Amazon history, phone tracking witnesses denied by judge

An Idaho judge has denied Bryan Kohberger’s request to bring in defense experts to offer testimony against the prosecution’s theories about his movements and Amazon shopping history. “The information Defense seeks to convey can be presented by declarations,” Judge Steven Hippler wrote in an order Tuesday. “Counsel may have the witnesses available by video streaming…

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Successful legal challenges to Biden’s pardons over autopen signature ‘vanishingly low’: Turley

Concerns are mounting around former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign presidential pardons and other official documents across his four years in office, though the chances of successfully challenging in court the use of an autopen on presidential pardons are “vanishingly low,” constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley said.  “Many are suggesting that the…

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Judge blocks Trump’s EPA from terminating $14 billion in ‘green bank’ grants after accusations of fraud

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration. U.S. District Judge Tonya Chutkan ruled that the federal government’s “vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient.” The order prevents the EPA from ending the grant program, which totaled…

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