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The Department of Justice and Trump administration officials are invoking the state secrets privilege in the case involving Venezuelans sent to El Salvador.

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What is the 'state secrets privilege' invoked by the Trump administration?

The state secrets privilege allows the U.S. government to withhold sensitive evidence in court cases. Both Democratic and Republican administrations have invoked it.

March 26, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
If you are past the age or don’t meet the requirements for jury duty, you should know so you can be exempted by the court. BERMIX STUDIO Unsplash

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Could your age or health get you out of jury duty? Here are Georgia’s requirements

Once or twice a year, you may get a letter in the mail telling you that you need to serve on a jury for a court case you probably know nothing about. While you would be contributing to your community, at a certain age it can become harder to serve on a jury. Here are some requirements and restrictions that need to be met for a citizen to still be allowed to attend jury duty.

June 21, 2024
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  • The Telegraph
A man fires his pistol at an indoor shooting range during a qualification course to renew his Carry Concealed handgun permit at the Placer Sporting Club, July 1, 2022, in Roseville, Calif.

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  • National

Judge blocks California law banning carrying firearms in most public places

The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom was set to take effect Jan. 1. It would have prohibited people from carrying concealed guns in places including parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos.

December 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Ernie Haynes stands next to a memorial for his daughter, Jennifer, at his home in Risingsun, Ohio. Following her drug overdose death in 2017, he was charged with abduction after trying to gain custody of his grandchildren. The action sparked a five-year legal battle to clear his name.

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  • Investigations

Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it

About 100 prosecutors across Ohio violated standards meant to protect a defendant's civil rights in criminal trials, an investigation by NPR and its reporting partners found. Some did so repeatedly.

December 15, 2023
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  • Gabriela Alcalde,
  • Jake Kincaid,
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  • Investigations

How we found criminal trials where Ohio prosecutors acted improperly

In a two-year investigation, we built a dataset of some 450 claims of prosecutorial misconduct by analyzing thousands of pages of appellate decisions from 2018 to 2021. Detailed here is how we did it.

December 15, 2023
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  • GPB Newsroom
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  • Law

A federal judge rules again that California's assault weapons ban is unconstitutional

The judge conceded that weapons like AR-15s are commonly used by criminals, but said the guns are importantly also owned by people who obey the law and feel they need firearms to protect themselves.

October 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves federal court in San Jose, Calif., Friday, March 17, 2023.

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  • Law

A judge rules that Elizabeth Holmes cannot remain free during appeal

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud last year and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

April 11, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
A woman, center, leaves to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office at Ulsan Jungbu police station in Ulsan, South Korea, on Sept. 15, 2022.

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  • Asia

The bodies-in-suitcase suspect appears in a New Zealand court

A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases made her first court appearance in New Zealand on Wednesday.

November 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., leads a hearing on the future of abortion rights following the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, at the Capitol in Washington, July 14, 2022.

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  • Politics

House to vote on same-sex marriage in an effort to push back against court

Tuesday's vote in the House is part political strategy in an election-year roll call that will force all lawmakers to go on the record with their views on the high-profile social issue.

July 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Cambodian-American lawyer Theary Seng, dressed in the Lady Liberty talks to the media outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 14, 2022.

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  • Asia

Cambodian court convicts a U.S. lawyer and dozens of others of treason

Cambodian American rights activist Theary Seng and most of the other defendants had been charged over a failed attempt by the leader of an opposition party to return from exile in 2019.

June 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Cambodian-American lawyer Theary Seng, dressed in the Lady Liberty talks to the media outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 14, 2022.

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  • Asia

Cambodian court convicts a U.S. lawyer and dozens of others of treason

Cambodian American rights activist Theary Seng and most of the other defendants had been charged over a failed attempt by the leader of an opposition party to return from exile in 2019.

June 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Steve Johnson with his sisters, Terry, left, and Rebecca and his wife Rosemarie, second right, arrive at the Supreme Court in Sydney on Monday for a sentencing hearing in the murder of Scott Johnson — Steve, Terry and Rebecca's brother.

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  • World

Sydney man admits to pushing a gay American off a cliff in 1988

The defendant faces a potential sentence of life in prison on sentencing scheduled for Tuesday.

May 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a hearing, Friday, April 22, 2022, in Atlanta. Greene is appearing at a hearing Friday in Atlanta in a challenge filed by voters who say she shouldn't be allowed to seek reelection because she helped facilitate the attack on the Capitol that disrupted certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory.

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  • News

Marjorie Taylor Greene hostile in testimony over eligibility

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was hostile during testimony in a hearing on her eligibility to run for reelection, saying she did not remember liking and making various social media posts surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year. Voters in Greene's district have said the Republican helped facilitate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, making her ineligible for reelection under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

April 22, 2022
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DeMarcus Hicks, a recent graduate of nursing school who is working as a contractor with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, gives a person a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, Dec. 20, 2021, in Federal Way, Wash.

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  • Science

Appeals court OKs Biden federal employee vaccine mandate

The ruling marks a rare win for the Biden administration at the New Orleans-based appellate court, where most of the active judges were nominated by Republican presidents.

April 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Lady Justice statue stands atop the Final Court of Appeal in Hong Kong after a ceremony to mark the opening of the legal year on Jan. 24, 2022 in Hong Kong.

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  • Asia

Britain withdraws its judges from Hong Kong's top court

The two British judges resigned after citing concerns about the court being as endorsing "an administration that has departed from values of political freedom, and freedom of expression."

March 31, 2022
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